New Iranian jet

[Precocity]

[NAB]

[dontworrybehappy]

[WizardfromOz]

[dontworrybehappy]

Good one Oz LOL

Here is a website from people in the know explaining, much to Nico's dismay, why this thing can't fly:

http://theaviationist.com/2013/02/04/ir ... RACJVqjeFc

And the thing that gives it away is the airspeed indicator, the same one is used on modern turboprop private aircraft. It only goes to 300!

Nice try Iran, but MAJOR FAIL.

[Professor]

You know - perhaps Iran is being super-smart about this? Perhaps they've really developed a super-advanced jet that eludes all radar and has superior flight characteristics to Western counterparts? Perhaps they simply made up a mock-up of it that is roughly 80% scale, and then made parts of it semi-obviously fake, just to make us think the whole thing was a fake? Perhaps they made a model of the jet and flew it using RC in front of a $100 Sony camcorder so that we would just point and laugh? Perhaps this whole thing was a ruse to distract us from the reality that they are planning large-scale production of their stealth fighter in preparation for an offensive campaign against all infidels?

Or, maybe they're just lying their asses off.

[Precocity]

[dontworrybehappy]

And the thing that gives it away is the airspeed indicator, the same one is used on modern turboprop private aircraft. It only goes to 300!

Nice try Iran, but MAJOR FAIL

And what "modern stealth fighter" uses an old analog airspeed indicator style that came out in the 60s?

[spacemonkey]

I hope both sides render eachother extinct.

[Professor]

Oh, one other thing. No one builds a "stealth fighter" that is capable of eluding ground radar. "Fighters" are for air superiority, and aren't overly concerned with ground radar. You can build "stealthy" fighter aircraft. But performance and speed is always much more important than stealth with an air superiority fighter. Those things (especially speed, since radar returns a signal whose strength is based both upon the size of the target and it's speed) are relatively incompatible with a stealth aircraft.

If you build stealth, you build stealth bombers. LIke the F-117 and the B-2. Those are the guys who need to evade ground radar.

Also, if you build bombers, you build them to be able to carry a payload. Based on wing area, that thing can't have much payload capacity.