Yes, I was thinking MiGs v. F-16s when I wrote that. The old MiG-21s were actually pretty cool little airdoodles. Never got to fly in one of course, but got to look some over. They looked rather uncomfortable to me, but fun. And had that super commie vibe on the inside.
C-130s are good old birds. I rode on an ancient one that had to use a cratered runway with major (and I mean major) cracks in it, but never just a field. Rough, but it did the job. There was something dripping on my head that seemed like oil, but I couldn’t figure out why there would be oil lines overhead, so maybe it was something else? Poor old thing had seen rough service in Africa and in its last days I suppose at the time.
C-160s are similar and can use dirt runways, too. Not all that different from our C-130s. Rode on those a few times, but they were newer and didn’t have the same “character” as that clattering old C-130 (which I was fond of for some reason, dripping on my head and all). No idea if they still make C-160s.
The C-130 is still in production. I know the Philippines just ordered three new ones from Lockheed last year.
As for the C-160, its maker, Transall, was merged into the Airbus group. Latest such type is the Airbus A400M Atlas, which is in production.