Qaher F313 - iransk stealth

[Marcus]

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.
He said the "development of the Iranian nation's military power is... for deterrence and defensive purposes".
In an unveiling ceremony inside a Tehran hangar broadcast on State TV on Saturday, Mr Ahmadinejad said he ranked the aircraft as "among the most advanced fighter jets in the world".
Pictures of the jet were released by state television, showing a steely grey jet that Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said was built with "advanced materials" and had a very low radar signature.

Analysis
Cyrus Amini
BBC Persian

The Qaher F313 looks like a cheap copy of the American F22 and its capabilities are unknown. State TV did not even show its take-off or landing. Iran is in dire need of planes to boost its ageing fleet. The 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war left a big dent in Iran's air force arsenal of US-supplied planes.
Damaged ones were used for spare parts and some of them (mostly Northrop F-5s) were turned into a new generation of planes like the Azarakhsh. Their capabilities are also unknown as they have not seen any real action.
Iran has been under tight sanctions since its war with Iraq and has not been allowed to obtain new hardware or spare parts for its old fleet. Buying Russian or Chinese jet fighters is not a ready option for Iran due to new sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear programme.
So the big challenge for Iranian military planners remains - having an air force that it can maintain and support locally, as buying parts on black market has been very costly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21307208

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Låt oss undvika politiska diskussioner och hålla tråden fokuserad på Irans flygvapen.

[Marcus]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=60a_1359793081



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[sveahk]

En Mockup utan finesser och möjligtvis ett modellflygplan på videon - sound och hastighet något manipulerat ...

My 2 cents.

Hans K

[sonderling]

Ja jag fick också en modellflygplans känsla av att se den.

Sonderling

[Hans]

A prototype version of the Qaher-313 has been portrayed to have test-flown at some point before the presentation.[12] According to the head of the design team two sub-sized models have been created and tested. One of the models uses a propeller engine while the other uses a small micro jet engine.[13] The models were shown in a video clip (along with descriptions by the head of the design team) the same day [14]. According to Haaretz, the "blurry video published by the Iranians purporting to show the Qaher 313 in flight seems to show not a manned fighter jet but a small radio-operated drone."[6]

Media sources outside of Iran have raised the possibility that the demonstrated aircraft would not be able to meet stated performance and/or that it may be a scale prototype or mockup,[3][6][15][16] with BBC News noting that the aircraft "looks like a copy of the American F-22".[10] Iran does not release technical details on its arsenals, so many of its claims about the aircraft are impossible to verify.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaher-313# ... evelopment

Får se om Tryggve följt ACIG.

MVH

Hans

[Hexmaster]

Egendomlig historia. Så patetiska Wunder waffen måtte vara ovanliga?

Finns det någon koppling till det här projektet, eller vad det kan vara?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shafaq

[Hans]

Bra blogg.

Det finns en bild på en modell av Shafaq bl.a. här.

MVH

Hans