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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Bottom-center on the dash? Awesome. Me, I'm totally digging that sawed-off 90s-era PC joystick, duct-taped to what appears to be a 1" plumbing pipe, and the rubber square tacked to the flooring. That, and I love the backside view of the fiberglass exterior.
Please look at the walls of the room in the photos. There isn’t even a door big enough to roll the “fighter” through to the outside world! I guess he’ll just have to blast his way out with one of those nifty rockets under his wings...wait a minute....! No racks. No rockets. No brains.
Please look at the walls of the room in the photos. There isn’t even a door big enough to roll the “fighter” through to the outside world! I guess he’ll just have to blast his way out with one of those nifty rockets under his wings...wait a minute....! No racks. No rockets. No brains.
Looking at the vid I don’t see any intakes on the bottom. Looks like these intakes would not work at high angles of attack anyway.
This is probably just a model. A lot of countries will do that but make a 1/3 scale that shows all the pieces.
They may not have the ability to make this but they can buy it.
Please look at the walls of the room in the photos. There isn’t even a door big enough to roll the “fighter” through to the outside world! I guess he’ll just have to blast his way out with one of those nifty rockets under his wings...wait a minute....! No racks. No rockets. No brains.
They could have bought one of these from Greece and it actually flies !!!!
basically a Fat Ultralight, with a Rotax 503 ( about 50 hp) 2 stroke in a semi-duct with a full sized prop.
Seriously, on the F-313, the wing is way to thick, the down-turned tips are problematic, and the air inlets on top are a no-no. Only the F117 and the B-2 pulled it off, for other reasons...
My first question upon seeing that picture is why are all the warning labels written in English instead of Farsi?
I didn’t see the pics posted before mine which has a view of the top and they do look like engine inlets. But for what kind of engines? A Cox .049?
It appears to have only one engine so maybe the ports aren’t too small but the only thing to compare them with are the plane which is clearly not a full scale mockup.
Did they take the real looking bits out of the F-14s they had from the Shah’s time?
They'll be sucking vacuum ...
No ... they're actually still flying their Tomcats.
We're not flying ours.
Makes me proud to be an American ...
(I know ... we wore 'em out. Still ... )
Jump to conclusions much? I mean, it certainly couldn’t be internet image searches or copying from their older Shah-era aircraft. Nope. U.S. subcontractors. Treason.
A real aircraft like this would be configured for internal weapons storage ...
So ...
Where are the weapons bay doors?
Um ...
Er ....
They don’t eject; that would kill their shot at 72 Virgins as they die as martyrs after the momentum from the slingshot they must use to get these airborne runs out.
Given the number of ridiculous fakes being pointed out in this picture, this model would be perfect for “What’s Wrong With This Picture” in Highlights Magazine (Military Version).
Yeah, the line there to the “Air Intake Cover” looks a bit like Bondo, gorilla hair, and some Testors model paint.
No way is that a pressurized cockpit, the canpoy doesn’t seal.
How many CD-players does the pilot need?
Engine inlets are on the top (the red covers)... Of course, if they are just painted cardboard, it doesn’t really matter.
This thing is nothing more than a mock-up. The fact that they allowed any detailed photographs of this toy shows their ignorance. Some obvious signs of very poor fiberglass workmanship.
Please look at the walls of the room in the photos. There isn’t even a door big enough to roll the “fighter” through to the outside world! I guess he’ll just have to blast his way out with one of those nifty rockets under his wings...wait a minute....! No racks. No rockets. No brains.
Where are the weapons bay doors?
They don't need them, Smarty Pants ... cause the plane was designed to bomb the Jews with MOAB's like this ... so there!
I am really impressed with the super-transparent canopy material - one would think if they went through so much trouble on the paintwork/skin of that “plane” that they would try to make the canopy material at least something one could see through in flight... that thing would present nothing but nasty glare in daylight flight, and image distortion at night.
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