Iran unveils 'domestically-built fighter jet'

Iran unveils 'domestically-built fighter jet'

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Simpo Two

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265 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Something about the cockpit shape reminds me of one of these:


annodomini2

6,861 posts

251 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Yachtworker said:
24lemons said:


Hopefully a higher resolution picture to laugh at analyse. It would appear that quite a lot of fibreglass went into building that, it also seems that there is no room for the pilot's legs!

It was decided that it would be unveiled in a local gymnasium as they were concerned about the plane getting prematurely airborne, as it was forecast to be a bit breezy that day.
Bloody hell I missed the cutting edge bit, there is a Garmin Nuvi 265W(with traffic) on the far right. This guy will not get lost and can avoid most hold ups on main roads at least.
Given the pilot would never be able to reach most of the controls on the right hand control panel, says to me they are trying to get the US to waste money understanding if the wing layout has some advantage they are not aware of, but typically looks like a disinformation model.

hidetheelephants

24,352 posts

193 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Seeing as we probably won't have enough money to buy JSF, perhaps we could contract the Iranians to make a couple of squadrons of cardboard copies to sit on the deck of QE and PoW. hehe

-Bladerider-

76 posts

229 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Main display looks like Brookes and Gatehouse !!

VERY high quality instruments actually.

For boats !!

speedtwelve

3,510 posts

273 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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One of the lads at work has built a LongEze homebuilt with a more convincing cockpit than that. At least he fits in it.

Jandywa

1,060 posts

151 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Deary me. IF, and its a big IF, the thing can fly im fairly sure i could have it down using little more than a cessna 182 and an air pistol.

dudleybloke

19,821 posts

186 months

dr_gn

16,163 posts

184 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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hidetheelephants said:
Seeing as we probably won't have enough money to buy JSF, perhaps we could contract the Iranians to make a couple of squadrons of cardboard copies to sit on the deck of QE and PoW. hehe
"cardboard copies" ? Surely that should just be "copies"?

hidetheelephants

24,352 posts

193 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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dr_gn said:
hidetheelephants said:
Seeing as we probably won't have enough money to buy JSF, perhaps we could contract the Iranians to make a couple of squadrons of cardboard copies to sit on the deck of QE and PoW. hehe
"cardboard copies" ? Surely that should just be "copies"?
Can we afford more than cardboard? hehe

dr_gn

16,163 posts

184 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Has anyone figured out what the u/c legs are from yet?

And those engine intakes - if they're the only ones, I'm guessing that they'd starve the engine of air at anything other than pretty much level flight.

They'd have been better spraying the canopy black and closing it, and unveiling it as a brand new UCAV.

Was this unveiling purely to impress the Iranian people and damn the outside world, or was it genuinely meant to be a statement of intent to the US?

IanMorewood

4,309 posts

248 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Video footage of the 'stealth' aircraft flying on the first linky, assume this is model though.

jaybirduk

1,867 posts

167 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Even to my untrained eye that is laughable smile

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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24lemons said:
That ejector seat looks really quite something nothing...

You've got to hand it to them...no-one beat them to lightweight cardboard.

Boatbuoy

1,941 posts

162 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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According to the 2012 census, Iran has a population in excess of 75 million people. Surely some of them are smart enough not to buy into this tripe?

dudleybloke

19,821 posts

186 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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it looks good untill you see a human near it and get a sense of scale.

Simpo Two

85,422 posts

265 months

Sunday 3rd February 2013
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Boatbuoy said:
According to the 2012 census, Iran has a population in excess of 75 million people. Surely some of them are smart enough not to buy into this tripe?
Every single one of them believes in a god. Therefore very easily led. 'Allah says this is good!' 'Righty-dokey, where do I kneel?'

Mattt

16,661 posts

218 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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Simpo Two said:
Every single one of them believes in a god. Therefore very easily led. 'Allah says this is good!' 'Righty-dokey, where do I kneel?'
Bit simplistic, I know several Iranians who have fled in recent years due to the lunacy.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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Boatbuoy said:
According to the 2012 census, Iran has a population in excess of 75 million people. Surely some of them are smart enough not to buy into this tripe?
I come from Iranian parents myself and I visit Iran every other year! Trust me 90% of the population hate the government with passion, they have single handley ruined a once great nation we use to be to the laughing stock of the world. The economic situation there is beyond a joke, every conversation you have these days, from the taxi drivers to the office workers talk about their hate for these mullahs and their struggle or talk about the great days of the shah!

Don't believe the stuff you see on tv especially all these crazy protests. Even the 10% of the population that supported these retards and always attended these protests you see on tv have given up, the imbeciles have resorted to photoshoping them in the papers or the local news.

Not only that but because of their forceful fanatical views on islam, the number of young people turing to atheists and agnostics is increasing too, mostly all the educated under 30's are looking for a way to leave the country. It really saddens me to see my country of origin turn out like this frown


Simpo Two

85,422 posts

265 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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Mattt said:
Bit simplistic, I know several Iranians who have fled in recent years due to the lunacy.
Bet they still believe in god though wink

If 90% of them hate their Govt why don't they do something about it? Rake up some AK47s and take over etc.

dudleybloke

19,821 posts

186 months

Monday 4th February 2013
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Simpo Two said:
Bet they still believe in god though wink

If 90% of them hate their Govt why don't they do something about it? Rake up some AK47s and take over etc.
well they've done it before.