{"id":315367,"date":"2025-11-12T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fighter-jets-built-1970s-still-active\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:00:15","slug":"5-fighter-jets-built-in-the-1970s-that-are-still-active-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=315367","title":{"rendered":"5 Fighter Jets Built In The 1970s That Are Still Active Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the frontline fighter jet families designed and initially built in the 1970s remain in use today. These include the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58722\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\"  >F-16<\/a><\/span> Fighting Falcon, the F-15 Eagle family, the European Panavia Tornado, and various Soviet-origin aircraft like the Su-24 Fencer. With that being said, it should be stressed that while the family of jets may still be in service, the 70s-built airframes may not be. Additionally, the latest iterations of the jets, like the F-15EX, have little in common with the original 1970s jets other than basic airframe and superficial appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some fighter jets introduced in the 1970s are now on their way out, F-16s and F-15s will remain in production beyond 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,2125,628,9771,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-15","category-fighter-jets","category-japan","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315368,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315367\/revisions\/315368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}