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Re:Photos of a Sukhoi Su-27 dogfighting with a USAF F-16 aro... by Inconel on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:53AM (#13363388)
I don't believe so, or at least I've never heard about Russian F-16s. Iran still flies some old F-14s though.

The USAF seems to be pretty strict about not allowing more modern fighters to end up in private hands. There are a number of F-86s, F-104s, F-5s and I believe one F-4 Phantom still flying around the US in the hands of private collectors and air museums but nothing newer like F-14s, F-15s, F-16s or F-18s.

Edit: While I've never heard of any F-16s in Russia I'm sure the Russians have had plenty of time inspecting and probably even flying F-16s, it was a very widely exported plane.

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Re:Photos of a Sukhoi Su-27 dogfighting with a USAF F-16 aro... by knz on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @07:37AM (#13364378)
Does Russia have an equivalent of ITAR? If not, that could partly explain why US aircraft are less commonly sold.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arm...

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Re:Photos of a Sukhoi Su-27 dogfighting with a USAF F-16 aro... by digi_owl on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:28AM (#13363690)
Never mind that Iran is still flying F-14s...
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