Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313

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Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313

Posted by timothy on Monday February 4, 2013 @02:01AM from the not-a-drone-so-20th-century dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Iran has unveiled a new home-made combat aircraft, which officials say can evade radar. The single-seat Qaher F313 (Dominant F313) is the latest design produced by Iran's military since it launched the Azarakhsh (Lightning), in 2007. President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said it had 'almost all the positive features' of the world's most sophisticated jets.Footage from state TV showed the jet in flight, but not its take-off or landing."

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Re:very very stealthy by Luckyo · 2013-02-04 03:21 · Score: 4, Insightful

Plane itself is internal propaganda. Look at the unveiling date, compare to the rest of Iranian fighter programs. Vaporware aimed at general populace to foster patriotism.
But cockpit isn't the part that is telling.
Re:Nice DVD player on that mockup cockpit... by Peristaltic · 2013-02-04 03:53 · Score: 4, Insightful

What gets me is that they're parading this homemade abortion around as the best effort of a -nation-. They actually had the balls to put it on TV with Mahmoud proudly standing next to it.
Iran will always have a hard time getting their war fighting tactics past the not-so-smart-bombs with semtex wrapped around their midsections.
The last time Iran had a decent military was under Xerxes.
Re:very very stealthy by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-04 05:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

The USAF will not certify manuals and tech orders written in any language other than English. So, if country X buys USAF stuff, and they want to translate it in to whatever the native language is, they assume full responsibility for the maintenance, care, and feeding of said equipment. Most countries find: A) It's really expensive to translate hundreds of thousands of pages of very technical data; B) English is the international language of aviation; C) As updates, modifications, operating supplements, emergency supplements, Time Compliance Technical Orders, upgrades, revisions, corrections, etc are published it means constantly paying for translation services over the life of the aircraft (unless the country opts out of the Technical Coordination Group and elects full responsibility for all safety, maintenance, inspections, repair procedures, etc). So, it's just cheaper to keep everything in English.