Worth remembering that under 'aircraft' come other sub headings, sensors, weapons, off bore sight capability, SA, fuel...as well as the perhaps more obvious ones of turn rates and excess power.
I personally believe that the probability that an old and bold in a legacy type will beat a young scamp in a contemporary type gets smaller by the day.
To answer the question from a modern standpoint; are any of the jets at a mod state with decent IRCMs, MIDS, JHMCS and 9X?