Why Iran’s New Home-Grown Stealth Fighter Will Never Get Off the Ground

Gizmodo - Credit to The Aviationist ^ | Feb 4, 2013 | David Cenciotti - The Aviationist

[Corporate Democrat]

On Feb. 1, 2013, Iran unveiled its indigenous fighter jet named "Qaher 313″. The prototype of the Q-313 (or F-313 according to the stencils applied to the aircraft), was presented to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and publicly displayed as part of the Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies held in Iran to celebrate the 1979′s victory of the Islamic Revolution.

In the previous days, the Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi had said, "The aircraft will be different from the other fighter jets Iran has already made." Iran's new fighter jet doesn't look like any we've ever seen before. Turns out, as The Aviationist explains, that's because it maybe possibly almost definitely can't fly.

[Corporate Democrat]

Would've linked directly to the Aviationist, but unfortunately their server is down due to heavy traffic.

[Chode]

cause it's made of wood??? it's not real...

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[blueunicorn6]

Look at the back of that thing. It’s a boat with a top on it.

“We patrol the skies and then go salmon fishing.”

[Ouchthatonehurt]

...or the giant burqa on it makes it hard to see.

[Texas Fossil]

Iran stealth fighter?

modern design, formed of a composite created with a mixture of camel dung and sheep shit, fired over burned blown out auto tires. And encased in a burka.

Can you just smell it? hee hee hee

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

It’s the Iranian equivalent of our Amusement Park “Bumper Car”.

Their “Bumper Car” game consists of bumping into “Infidels” and running women drivers off the road. (Happened to my sister-in-law in Saudi Arabia).

Also consists of running over “Joosz” and turning them into “roadkill”.

And to scare car drivers who have rearview mirrors, they have painted Helen Thomas’ face on the hoods of their cars.

Entrance tickets cost 50 Dinars or two sheep.

[Texas Fossil]

burka?

You beat me by 25 seconds.

[ZOOKER]

I guess the Iraqi design bureau chief is a fan of Clint Eastwood movies.

[NewJerseyJoe]

The original F-117 model was called the "Hopeless Diamond" because people believed they could never get the design to work. We know how that turned out.

If this plane never gets off the ground, it'll be because Israel takes it out.

[Chode]

yup, shrink wrap Burka... not a rivet to be seen

[Chode]

pretty much...

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Well, if Allah wills then it will fly...

[sickoflibs]

The Navy had the exact same problem with the A-12 in 1990.

Fortunately for taxpayers Cheney as Defense Secretary canceled it.

[Standing Wolf]

I’ve never pretended to be an engineer—an outright impossibility when you do arithmetic on this many fingers—but that looks to me like an Iranian copy of a Russian copy of an American comic book rendition of a U.S. Air Force jet.

I’ll wait for the bus to get here, thanks all the same.

[MestaMachine]

OMG! Did you watch the video? It’s so.....um....cute.

[X-spurt]

If this plane never gets off the ground, it'll be because the Iranians don't have the brains to build this high tech and their pilots the brains to fly it.

A funny thing about Arabs and Persians, they are culturally foolish enough to believe their own bullshite.

[Sequoyah101]

Styrofoam or paper mache.

[ThunderSleeps]

Look how big the canopy is - great for visibility, not so great for stealth. Radar energy will come right through it and reflect off pilot, helmet, seat, etc. Even with gold coating...

Look how thick the rear wing leading edge is. What speed is this supposed to fly at, 200 kts?

Look how small the engine inlets are. Any low speed performance? What about at high angles of attack, the pressure wave coming off the fuselage "hull" is going to starve them for airflow, causing a compressor stall.

This doesn't look like a serious design.

[Little Pig]

The "vehicle" they showed a few days ago is pretty much certainly a mockup. When the photos came out, I pointed out Here that it was fake, based on the horrifically distorted canopy, as well as the really minimalist instrument panel. The size kind of gives it away too. Despite the way they look, even "small" fighters are pretty damn big; the Iranian one looks like a kit-plane in comparison to even "little" fighters like the F-16 and the A-4.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

You’re right.. A boat with our hijacked drone embedded with wings protruding (front).. Hahahahaaa. Can see in the front a boat bow and back the stern. LOL

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

How nice of them to put “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” (in English) ON THOSE RED ENGINE TAGS.

[Dan(9698)]

You can double your math capacity by taking off your shoes.

[FredZarguna]

Comment at the article says “Remember to think in Persian when you fly it.” Bwahahahaa!

[FredZarguna]

You can double your math capacity by taking off your shoes.

And calculate in hex, too!

Well, at least up to 14.

[Kirkwood]

Iranian Midget Air Force.

[Tucker39]

Looks like a cheap bogus knockoff of an SR-71 Blackbird.

[Charles Martel]

Yeah, about that canopy... the view from inside is so blurry that it looks like privacy glass.

[Swordmaker]

Did you notice there are no latches on the canopy edges or any seals either? The wind noise will be horrific! If the canopy doesn’t tear off in flight. LOL!

[Kadric]

When I see it I think of the Boeing “Bird of Prey”. Mainly due to the wings.

[PLMerite]

Here's part of where they got it from.

[PLMerite]

Someone apparently has built a flying RC version of the Firefox.

[Vinnie]

When I saw the pic posted a few days ago the thing that struck me was the ripples in the skin. If it is real they don’t know sheetmetal work.
But my thought was, it’s a mockup.

[PLMerite]

And here's the X-36:

[PLMerite]

And here's where the bent wing comes from - Boeing Bird of Prey:

[greenhornet68]

And this is where that design came from...

[PapaBear3625]

The video at the link shows something that looks like the plane flying around.

MadMax at #8 says "It’s the Iranian equivalent of our Amusement Park “Bumper Car”". I think so too.

I don't think Iran is trying to produce a fighter that can credibly go up against US fighters. I think they are trying to produce a manned cruise missile, a kamikaze plane with an embedded nuke that has some chance of getting through to Israel or get close enough to a US carrier fleet.

[Chode]

no, is it at the Gizmodo link???

[jmcenanly]

It sounds like the so called ‘baka bombs’ the Japanese used toward the end of the Second world War. These would be dropped from a bomber and the pilot would guide the rocket powered craft to its target. However, I think that our air defenses have evolved to a point where it would be difficult for someone to try that again.

[PLMerite]

Well, if it’s got a cloaking device we may be in trouble.

[MestaMachine]

Yes.

[Sirius Lee]

[Chode]

cute is right, i don't believe it...