Posted on 02/08/2013 7:59:22 AM PST by Zakeet
From the loony regime that just figured how to shoot a monkey into space: Iran now claims it has its own homemade, radar-beating stealth fighter jet.
But aviation and defense experts say the tiny one-seater looks like a toy and might not even be able to fly — calling it a “laughable fake.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled the Qaher F313 at a Tehran hangar last week and called it “one of the most advanced” aircraft in the world.
But the experts said it was too small for a human pilot — and the controls and wiring looked too simple for a real jet.
Ahmadinejad boasted it had “almost all the positive features” of the world’s most sophisticated jets. But among the features that seem to be missing are bolts and rivets — found on the simplest planes.
“It looks like the Iranians dumped some rudimentary flight controls and an ejection seat into a shell molded in what they thought were stealthy angles,” reporter John Reed wrote in the journal Foreign Policy.
“It looks like it might make a noise and vibrate if you put 20 cents in,” joked Andrew Davies of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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That gray box sticking out of the instrument panel might be one of your old CD-ROM drives; better go check.
Just one more thing.
If the canopy is OPEN, why is the cylinder still
retracted? No piston rod showing!
It probably just hangs there.
Also air intakes impossibly small.
It looks like the canopy is surrounded by duct tape to seal it to the fuselage.
Those engine inlets look like painted cardboard and with them on the bottom, doesn't it lower its stealth capacity by having the fan blades on the bottom?
Nice canopy, a little out of proportion.
Don’t sleep on the Iranians. They have kept their F14s flying despite not getting any US support.
They also have the record for the lowest altitude mid-air refueling during combat.
Some things are universal. The Saudi and Kuwaiti airforce uses all english stencils and maintenance manuals.
I have been on Russian aircraft and I could understand all the equipment writings.
The external power plug on Russian and US made aircraft is exactly the same. The voltages are different though.
Looks like a Kenwood cassette stereo in the instrument panel.
They kinda got that sorta right ...
Yes...heh, I don’t see any of those “hammers on both sides of the headrest that would take care of the canopy, soooo...they must blow the canopy first.
Riiiiiiighhhht...:)
I am sure we are giving them too much credit by even entertaining this...
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jmho....
The “red things” are inlet covers. They keep stuff out of the intakes. They are mostly used on fighter type aircraft. Same same for the one on the exhauset.
***You know it’s tough when the “President” of the
country has to take part in a hoax of this stature.***
LOL Have you not noticed that we have the same problem here in the good ole USA?
Ummmm ...
Yes. I got that.
The other fellow seemed to think that the "engine inlets" were on the bottom of the "aircraft".
As you can see, I strongly suspect that thing of being a stage-prop.
And yes, I get your point about the Iranians being able to operate aircraft. That's a different skill set and a different industrial and engineering base from designing and building aircraft.
Must be fly-by-instruments only. You can’t see through the canopy.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
How in the world does that canopy seal out wind and pressurize the cabin? BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the back of that thing. I’ll bet it’s powered by an Evinrude outboard motor.
Plus the bottom looks like it would make a pretty good ski boat!
Akmangetajob talking to his reporters. Look, there it goes again. Didn’t you see it. I told you it was an advanced stealth fighter.
The two rear photos aren’t even of the same piece of equipment.
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