I've just read the section about Red Flag and the kill ratios obtained by the F3 force against the best the USAF had to offer were exceptionally good.
Obviously you are aware that at RF there are aggressors who play the job of the bad guys. Part of their role is to not use the full capabilities of their platform but to provide the most accurate representation of threat systems.
So to say it is against the best the USAF had to offer is misleading at best and willful misrepresentation at worst.
Some of the Best, yes, but with playing a game by a very different set of rules to what they would choose...
Thats not to say that an F3 cant do a good job, from what I have heard, good radar, relatively quick, AIM120 and AIM132, Link16 = happy days...