Posted on 01/19/2017 10:23:11 AM PST by llevrok
The Islamic State group — also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — was seemingly building a fighter jet it intended to use against the Iraqi security forces capturing Mosul from the terrorist group. However, with the forces pushing them back, ISIS has left the unfinished aircraft in Mosul. The fighter jet seems to be one of the many ways in which ISIS was planning to mount an offensive against the US-backed Iraqi security forces. Recently, evidence has surfaced showing that the terrorist group was looking to develop chemical weapons with raw materials at the Mosul University. That ISIS had drones and was using it extensively has been widely known for quite some time now. However, this fighter jet is something that has not been seen before. If it had been operational, ISIS would have been possibly the only the second terrorist group in the world to have had attack capabilities like that through air — the first being the Sri Lanka-based LTTE, which exists no more. (snip)
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Right. “Fighter jet” my obama! ROTFLMAO!
It was almost ready to go!
Put some fuel in it and........
Looks like Aaron Rodgers could shoot it down with a football. Probably a “kamikaze” weapon.
The wing seems kind of short......
What a horrendous excuse for journalism! No evidence at all given of a “fighter jet” no matter how “unfinished”....
The writer of this story needs to choke himself.
The wings are set so far back for a two-place side-by-side with an obvious front-mounted engine that the center of gravity would be so far ahead of the center of lift as to make this thing unflyably nose-heavy...
It's all about that thrust
Boeing will be sending a engineering team there to asses the design................
Look at the wrinkles in the back.
Fabric.
There’s no ‘jet’ engine.............
Look at the can of paint under it.
They went with the High Gloss finish. That makes it faster.
Well, it could work.
Probably just some local’s escape plan to get away from ISIS.
Cessna maybe, Fighter jet definitely not. (FAKE NEWS ALERT!)
Bump for later
Yeah, though I think it is optimistic, a lot of Iraquis talk about a post-ISIS Iraq; so they do seem to be being rolled back there, a lot of car bombs though.
Good thing Hitler didn’t have these. We’d be speaking...English.
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