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Aviation experts say new Iranian stealth jet is a pathetic hoax that can’t even fly
New York Post ^ | February 8, 2013 | Andy Soltis

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aircraft; iran; military; stealth
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To: humblegunner
With a few of those "mat & resin" boat repair kits and the contents of my "dead computer junk" closet I bet I could make one too.

That gray box sticking out of the instrument panel might be one of your old CD-ROM drives; better go check.

21 posted on 02/08/2013 8:28:27 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: tet68

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.


22 posted on 02/08/2013 8:31:05 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Abathar

It looks like the canopy is surrounded by duct tape to seal it to the fuselage.


23 posted on 02/08/2013 8:31:28 AM PST by Never on my watch (GALT)
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To: Zakeet
More pics of the Quahar F-313:






24 posted on 02/08/2013 8:36:12 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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To: Zakeet
Looks real, heh heh.

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.

25 posted on 02/08/2013 8:37:08 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Zakeet

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.


26 posted on 02/08/2013 8:37:23 AM PST by USAF80
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

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.


27 posted on 02/08/2013 8:41:41 AM PST by USAF80
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To: Alex Murphy

Looks like a Kenwood cassette stereo in the instrument panel.


28 posted on 02/08/2013 8:44:38 AM PST by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: Lx
The red things are the (ridiculously small) "engine" (Really? Is there an engine?) inlets.

They kinda got that sorta right ...

29 posted on 02/08/2013 8:44:53 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: tet68

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...


30 posted on 02/08/2013 8:48:50 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Zakeet
Pretty bad imitation...

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IRAN_F313 FAKE1

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jmho....

31 posted on 02/08/2013 8:51:29 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

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.


32 posted on 02/08/2013 8:53:04 AM PST by USAF80
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To: tet68

***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?


33 posted on 02/08/2013 8:55:42 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: USAF80
The “red things” are inlet covers.

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.

34 posted on 02/08/2013 8:57:31 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: humblegunner

Must be fly-by-instruments only. You can’t see through the canopy.


35 posted on 02/08/2013 8:58:33 AM PST by ryan71
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To: Alex Murphy

ROTFLMAO!!!!

How in the world does that canopy seal out wind and pressurize the cabin? BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!


36 posted on 02/08/2013 9:01:02 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: Zakeet

Look at the back of that thing. I’ll bet it’s powered by an Evinrude outboard motor.


37 posted on 02/08/2013 9:01:45 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Alex Murphy

Plus the bottom looks like it would make a pretty good ski boat!


38 posted on 02/08/2013 9:02:38 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: ryan71

Akmangetajob talking to his reporters. Look, there it goes again. Didn’t you see it. I told you it was an advanced stealth fighter.


39 posted on 02/08/2013 9:02:46 AM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Zakeet

The two rear photos aren’t even of the same piece of equipment.


40 posted on 02/08/2013 9:04:51 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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