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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We intellectually superior Persians discovered stealth aircraft centuries before you stupid decadent Christians had even thought of it
Is this like their “stealth boats” from a few years back?
It does fly, it is just so stealthy that no one can see it flying.
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.
This reminded me of something I read where the Iranian ATC challenged a Marine Jet for violating their air space and said they were going to send their Jets to attack him and he replied go ahead I’ll wait.
That canopy looks like it was hammered out of a piece of clear acrylic with a ball peen hammer over a rock.
Is it SOP in Iran to label things in English? The 313 is carrying English labels in the photograph. No Farsi?
Interesting that all the warnings and labels are in English? I thought they hated everything about us?
Subcontractors from the US? Works or not, treason, in one word.
Then turn it into an Aerial Paint Ball Target. Think what fun our flyboys (sorry, aviation pilots) would enjoy that.
Excuse me, have already forgotten about the monkey? Does nobody remember "Wargames"? Harrumph!
OK that made me LOL
Nice catch & a great question.
Anyone ever seen a photo if this so-called “stealth fughter” actually flying. Better yet, flying next to a real airplane?
It evades radar by never leaving the hangar.
Why don’t they build a better transport than the American Boeing 747-SP Achmadinijad flies around in?
Reminds me of the BBC James May Toy Stories where in one show they made full size model of a Spitfire just like it came out of a Lindberg model kit.
One can’t help but notice that the ejection seat is
somewhat short too, sure wouldn’t want to have to
ride that through the canopy.
You know it’s tough when the “President” of the
country has to take part in a hoax of this stature.
It’s fiberglass, you can tell by the flow lines along the surface. No way that thing could even be a prototype, it looks similar to a clay mockup the design team constructed like we do for cars.
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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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.
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 ... )
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