The Stealth Fighter No One Has Ever Really Seen

The Iranian Air Force seemed doomed after the US severed ties with Tehran in the 1980s and left the country with an air fleet of aging F-5s and F-14 Tomcats.
Nevertheless, to the world's bewilderment, in 2013, Iran abruptly announced the introduction of the country's first indigenous aircraft, and it was no ordinary fighter. It was the Qaher-313 or the Conqueror, a fifth-generation stealth fighter.
The Qaher's shape was reminiscent of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, featuring an aerodynamic design to enhance its maneuverability and body panels covered in advanced coatings to provide a low radar signature.
The aircraft also featured two internal compartments and the capacity to carry ordnance of over 2,000 pounds.
Although little information was ever released about the Qaher, for years, Iran reassured time and time again that the Conqueror would fly in the upcoming years. Still, Western analysts have expressed concerns regarding Tehran's technological capacity to fully develop a functional fifth-generation stealth fighter…
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[@paulbeck6410]

I'd say it's very stealthly. No one has ever seen it. Not only it can't be picked up on radar, its also invisible to the eye. Amazing.

[@deliacolquhoun2845]

I mean, if people have already seen the TR 3B, then Iran must be the most advanced country on earth to hide such a craft.

[@dc-4ever201]

Yeah it's so rare it's hiding with their herd of Unicorns.

[@curiouspharmacy4775]

It flies so close to the ground it's almost skating 😅

[@chrisbraswell8864]

Looks like a dressed up F-5 to me notice the small side by side exhaust.

[@BobH809]

Look at the underside, hardly stealthy is it. I remember seeing this video when it was released and despite not being an aviation expert, I do know aircraft very well and thought that this was just a very badly mocked up thrown together dud. It was more apparent when the 'pilot' climbed in, and even he looked amateurish. Having worked in the middle east one get's to know when things are not right.

[@newdefsys]

Yeah well, radar cant pick up a fart either and those can be pretty deadly.

[@leolldankology]

Mine burn 🔥 nose hairs.

[@flickingbollocks5542]

🍑💨🤥☠️

[@dcopple]

And silent!

[@JTA1961]

No shit

[@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587]

I remember watching pictures of that pathetic half sized and crude mock up "stealth" fighter plane with my brother in 2013. We were crying of laughter😂😂

[@brianartillery]

It made me think of the fictional aircraft from that old Clint Eastwood movie, 'Firefox'. To my eyes, it doesn't look real at all. No way that Iran, who had to buy aircraft from other nations, and not being known for any of it's own aerospace companies, can build something like that as a first try. I heard about it at the time, and thought: "Yeah. Right."

[@brianartillery]

@@Rollochrome 👍👍👍

[@JRGProjects]

Yeah me too or Imadinijad played way too much Ace Combat.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

OMG! That's what I was thinking !

[@ronaldlebeck9577]

@brianartillery Yeah, I thought the design looked like it was copied and scaled down from "Firefox". The air inlets look way too small and given it's overall size, I doubt the thing would have a combat radius half that of the Mig-21, which was 310 miles compared to, say, the F-14D's 500 n. miles. Plus, those wings seem a bit short, too, for it's size, though it still would be interesting to see thing that undergo real wind tunnel tests.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

after 20 years in service, can you name a few combats with f22 and/or f35? keep in mind that israelis lived in iran for centuries and we know their lies and boasts, so please don't embarrass the 9 countries that built them by saying that barefoot village of israel used them in combat, lol

[@CrankyDoodleDandy]

Bet everyone’s here for the thumbnail. It didn’t fool anyone. We just laughed when it came out, especially with the Cessna cockpit. Somewhere in Tehran a lawnmower is missing an engine that’s now being used to move that thing 😂

[@isaacder3i121]

lawnmower, lol, seriously you are probably on to something.🤣🤣🤣

[@LordEmperorHyperion]

The technological gap the US once has is slowly closing when the playing field is leveled we shall see if the F35 can still hold its own..

[@Omegatonboom]

​@@LordEmperorHyperionmaybe in a couple decades

[@lucasokeefe7935]

Sure, if you only look at propaganda from hostile nations. The US has been a whole generation ahead of everybody else since the SR-71 first flew. That won't stop any time soon.

[@billpugh58]

@@LordEmperorHyperionyawn.

[@marstondavis]

Very adept use of plywood, wood glue and dry wall screws.

[@crazy8sdrums]

Please, no more clickbait thumbnails. This video surely didn't need it as it was really good on it's own.

[@ToddBrooks-o5m]

I call it DARK CRAP !!

[@KX36]

what's the matter? got fooled by a fake aircraft?

[@mattball2700]

@@KX36

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

@@KX36 after 20 years in service, can you name a few combats with f22 and/or f35? keep in mind that israelis lived in iran for centuries and we know their lies and boasts, so please don't embarrass the 9 countries that built them by saying that barefoot village of israel used them in combat, lol

[@KX36]

@@syncopatedfeb4770 wtf. Nothing to do with the original post or my reply. Bot?

[@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind]

It's a rebodied F5 Freedom Fighter.

[@MRptwrench]

I think I'm more impressed that Iran had the big turntable for the "jet". But then again, maybe they just repurposed a railroad roundhouse.

[@gpaull2]

Sounds like it DIDN’T fool everyone.

[@HenriFaust]

If Iran's intent was to create something other than what they advertised, then it worked.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

@@HenriFaust after 20 years in service, can you name a few combats with f22 and/or f35? keep in mind that israelis lived in iran for centuries and we know their lies and boasts, so please don't embarrass the 9 countries that built them by saying that barefoot village of israel used them in combat, lol

[@billpugh58]

@@syncopatedfeb4770Iran can’t build stealth aircraft

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

@@billpugh58 are you guys still crying about 19 countries, trillions wasted and 20 years of the f35 and 22 with no combat record? lo

[@corycrandell2682]

I've seen more sophisticated instrument panels in a Cessna 172.

[@JustReed]

What I was thinking.

[@christopherprisco8690]

Looks like they got GM's Monsoon sound system including cd player and bass boost🤣🤣🤣

[@oler777]

I’m just here because of the original thumb nail

[@jiceBERG]

Hahaha me too

[@parlindungansitompul9625]

Same here 😅

[@call_me_kay]

I don't understand why he uses click bait

[@HubertofLiege]

Birdcatcher 3000

[@MrJC1]

Me three

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

The moment he said Iranian, I couldn't help but laugh because I remember how quickly everyone forgot about this.

[@irritatorgoner1087]

Dude, this thumbnail got me so well😂

[@JohnMckeown-dl2cl]

I agree it lacks the internal volume to contain the engines, electronics, fuel and weapons. Additionally, it lacks certain features to be an actual aircraft that will fly and be useful. There are no true panel lines, separation of radome from the fuselage, radar deflectors at moving panel joints (gear/weapons bay doors or canopy) and the intakes are laughably small. It also has some aerodynamic choices like the intakes that would have disrupted airflow issues at high AOA that would cause engine compressor stalls.

[@joeylawn36111]

You know a lot more about aircraft than I do, but even I recognized how tiny the air intakes were. Way too small for any modern jet engine, let alone one for a jet fighter that could go Mach 2+. That "plane" can only go "Mock 2" if you catch my drift.

[@ThePandoraGuy]

And radar. Where the fuck is enough room in that duckbill of nose to house a modern radar system. Maybe a radar pistol from the police, then this "fighter" can measure the speed of incoming objects.

[@thearmourboy3254]

Not to mention the minute you put a canard on it and bend those wings at the angle they have any " stealth " you might have gained has gone straight out the window. It's just extra surfaces to create odd angles for radar beams to bounce off of.

[@whalesong999]

Yeah, the air inlets are woefully deficient. HOA, they'd become vacuum areas, starve the engines of air.

[@LeonAust]

Well done 🤣👍

[@rottondog1473]

I remember when the first videos came out of this. They were flying a RC hobby mockup and anyone with a shred of aviation knowledge knew it.

[@fernandonavarro3839]

That was a guy from the US, who build the kit to test its flying capabilities, and used a piston engine. It flew like crazy! But it was not built by Iran, he was just an RC hobbyist. So the design flies, as an RC model. I don't know as a real fighter jet, but if Iran has announced will use drones instead, that's a more realistic perspective.

[@fernandonavarro3839]

Also, if they succeeded with their design, the sole cost of developing and producing it would be too much for Iran's economy.

[@gillie-monger3394]

@@fernandonavarro3839 Not really. Iran ships 2.1 million barrels of crude oil - a day! If they up production the cost of developing a 5th gen aircraft is easily affordable. Their problem lies not in the cost, but in the procuring of special materials and more to the point - expertise.

[@robobloxgamer524]

@@fernandonavarro3839 Don't worry, the FJ Biden administration will find a way to give Iran more money.

[@DPRacingWhereRacingLives]

​@@fernandonavarro3839They would have to scale it up by 3x at least to even be viable.

[@jbuck9821]

The silhouette of the F-313 reminds me of the aircraft in the movie Firefox. I hope that isn't where they got their inspiration.

[@rjspires]

Anyone else disappointed he not talking about the image in the thump nail? A giant engine with a small cabin under the tail.

[@Friedbrain11]

Yep. I was hoping that was what he was talking about...drats! LOL

[@manofflorida1138]

That was the alleged Douglas DC-01. It probably deserves a video of its own video.

[@billwilson3665]

Bless their little hearts.

[@matsv201]

If you replace everyone with nobody the headline become 95% more accurate

[@billmullins6833]

Am I the only one who noticed that the thing shown "taxiing" was a twin engine vs the (admitted) mockup single? Also, despite there being multiple shots aft of the thing there was no hint of the sort of heat distortion you always see on real aircraft. I do wish I had some of what those folks in Iran were toking when they imagined they would fool anybody over here.

[@pieterveenders9793]

Exactly, the taxiing aircraft was twin engined (and had no afterburner nozzle, standard on any and every modern jet fighter. While the model unveiled to the press with their president present was clearly single engined (though also didn't have any type of afterburner nozzle).

[@billpugh58]

I think it was rolling down a slope or being towed on a rope:)

[@ifrxenvoy124]

What happens when it starts pulling high AOA and no air can reach those high intakes? Compressor stalls for all.

[@bishopoftroy]

I love that they put a radio-cassette player in the middle of the cockpit.

[@dragicadjuric3635]

Omg,it was a radio-cassette player. Thank you, i was thinking that I didn't see right. 😂😂😂

[@bishopoftroy]

​@@dragicadjuric3635 hey it gets pretty lonely up there so

[@alexglikman4446]

Come on Dark Skies.... You're our pre bed time key bump. You don't need click bait. We all love the content and would have watched this video regardless.

[@JSFGuy]

I hope not... That cover photo. At 313 never did anything, it had a car stereo for an instrument panel, no canopy latches, no nothing.

[@joeylawn36111]

LMAO I noticed that car stereo unit at the bottom center also! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Some-Guy1127]

Oh wow you're right 😂

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

at least iran was honest and pulled the deal back to do more modifications, not like usaf lying about f35 and f22 with no combat records, lol

[@JSFGuy]

@@syncopatedfeb4770 wow, that's such a lie and a false equivalency, what did the USAF lie about? Something you obviously don't understand is when low observable aircraft are involved in issues they don't track or can't track it doesn't make the news. Plenty of incidents have happened over Syria so. This Iranian styrofoam toy airplane has not flown nor will it because it's fake.

[@michaelmacdonell4834]

"I didn't see you in Camouflage practice today, Private Smith!" "Thank you, Sir!"

[@robdegraw1568]

Kind of reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox

[@jamesg2382]

The mock-up looks more like plywood and bog than composites and radar reflective materials. A lack of removable panels indicate that it’s just a mock-up.

[@acecombat5465]

No wonder why I haven't heard of this plane. If it was an actual threat, it would've been mentioned along with other 5th gen planes. Such as the F-22, F-35, J-20* and the SU-57*.

[@scottstewart5784]

Iran is about ten years behind schedule to get their asterisk. Happens when you jump straight to 5th gen, you get pushed back down to drones to start at the beginning.

[@skip123davis]

even the F16 has a lower radar cross section than an SU57 - and it doesn't even claim to be stealthy. the 57 is a fraud.

[@donadams8345]

It looks like it has heavy coats of latex house paint. Obviously that would be radar absorbing.

[@harleypub]

The image from 10:29 in your video looks a great deal like someone looked at the Boing YF-118G bird of prey stealth demonstrator, as well as the F-22 and attempted to blend these two elements.

[@joebutta7539]

Sees: plane Hears: "Reminiscent of the f117" Says to himself: hahah Bro, are you okay? (Looks NOTHING like it) your take is much more accurate.

[@Imugi007]

I mean if it never flies, it can never be seen on radar! Stealth achieved!

[@mdbigman]

Should have posted this on April 1st. I love the odd seating position for the pilot. his knees are above the canopy line on the fuselage. Looks like he is sitting on an apple crate. LOL

[@danielbarnes7559]

The wings look suspiciously like the wings on the "Firefox" from the clint Eastwood movie with the same name 😂😂😅

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

I have a hard time believing that the heavy joint between the canopy and the body doesn't scream hello to every radar searching for it.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

it's ridiculous to think that a joint can be detected in a stealth, lol......even an oth system can barely see the jet shape, and namely relies on returns in terms of doppler effect where you see an object's velocity based on its frequency changes. the only country that has taken down a stealth was iran in bosnia in the f117 case. so once the oth "barely" and i emphasize "barely", noticed the frequency changes, the "passive" radar on nosecone of the missile was able to get close enough to the 117 to listen to the exhaust, and that's about all you can detect. all the old school paint, shape etc., is just that; old school, and how would you know if you've never taken down a stealth like iran taking down rq4, rq170 and f117? lol

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

The Fat Electrician talked about that incident in Bosnia and it was all pretty much luck.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

@@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it yeah same with rq4 and rq170 and us has never gotten lucky lol

[@da20eclipse]

The canopy itself looks fake. Notice it’s not clear. Looks like cheap plastic.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

are you guys still crying about 19 countries, trillions wasted and 20 years of the f35 and 22 with no combat record? lol@@da20eclipse

[@motodigitalvideo]

The stealth fighter no one has ever seen, sounds like the perfect stealth fighter! 😂

[@bryanparkhurst17]

Although personally I have a hard time believing that Iran will ever achieve anything on par with the Western world, don't sell them short. My father worked with a lot of people from Iran in the state highway administration. They are intelligent, resourceful and a very determined people.

[@tengufactory]

You're right Iran has many developmental engineers and scientists that are on the Leading Edge Including free energy and anti-gravatics..

[@lordphullautosear]

So have they rediscovered the secret technology of paved roads? Say what you want about the Shah, the country was way more civilized then than now.

[@brazenatheist1676]

​@@tengufactory"anti gravatics" lol

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Yup they invented Algebra 2000 yrs ago and are just in a rut but any Millennium now they're gonna make a come back

[@lordphullautosear]

@@j.robertsergertson4513-- it was the Arabs that were the middle eastern mathematicians, not the Persians, although the Persians picked up on it quick enough through contact with them.

[@joshm3484]

Anhedral wings mean either they place a high emphasis on roll performance, or they agree with every early 2000s sci-fi and think they look really cool

[@leolldankology]

Firefox...I think Clint Eastwood flew this in the late 70's early 80s.

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

LOL @5:40 we see a plane taxiing with TWO exhausts. Moments later we see their display with ONE. Both with the same size intakes in front. And pull the nose up, that/those engine/s are going to starve for air. Yeah, you go Iran. Also rather interesting that the canopy is crystal clear. Apparently they found the formula for Scotties transparent aluminum because a clear non metallic canopy canopy is going to allow radar returns off all that crap sticking up inside.

[@chrispiyarat5507]

The instrument panel has an RCS the size of an A380 with instruments looking like an old reverse camera off Aliexpress. Best feature I can see is the seat belts attached to a rather dubious looking seat.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Someone in Iran must've found a VHS copy of Firefox and and old Testor stealth fighter model kit and said. Sweet! Lets kit bash a plane together.

[@ABW941]

It didnt fool people back then, it was taken appart by many analysts.

[@HB-C_U_L8R]

This is the most advanced aluminum and fiberglass movie prop ever built.

[@PatriotPlus179]

Iran still has at least a dozen operational F-14's. They should create their own, "Blue Angel," style team of F-14's and they should tour the world. I would pay to see some Tomcats performing.

[@DPRacingWhereRacingLives]

A dozen operational is probably a stretch. It's commendable they have kept them up all these years, but those tomcat are haggard on the best of days.

[@michaeltagg492]

They don't have enough F14's air worthy to make up a team.

[@weaponx5293]

Is it just me or does it look like the jet from Firefox with Clint Eastwood?

[@gl1500ctv]

If it really works, take it to airshows and let everyone see it flying like the US and Russia have (with the F-22, F-35 and Su-57.)

[@kdrapertrucker]

The SU-57 is a fake stealth aircraft, but at least it can fly.

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

Ah, the SU-57 Femboy reduced visibility aircraft. At this point I think everyone has learned that Russian claims are vastly inaccurate.

[@richardburns-uz7of]

Harbor Freight Special

[@mexxikanboi]

⁠@@richardburns-uz7ofhey hey hey! Don’t you insult Harbor Freight by associating it with the SU-57! For one thing my Harbor Freight tools perform as advertised.

[@billmullins6833]

For shame,.Dark Skies! In the past you have.always been reliable. This video is pure bravo sierra!

[@JonHuhnMedical]

The anhedral on those wing tips is baffling. It's like they just thought it'd make it look high tech.

[@vharrald]

The jet looks more like a bug with the beak of a chicken

[@SPak-rt2gb]

Iran's Firefox

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

There seems to be about 3 different models you keep switching through. Are these the wrong planes or did they make several different versions. Some are single engine, some are 2, at least 3 different cockpit window configurations?

[@classicsfan8791]

The cockpit 'glass' never looked real to me from day one.

[@jsquared1013]

They kept swapping out parts between their propa... press releases. Probably each time the papier mache cracked.

[@goattactac8790]

Thank you for uploading of interesting topics. I enjoy every clips you uploaded. however as I am not an English speaker, so please little bit slow your commentator. it is not only understanding topics, but also improve my English. Thank you.

[@alihanaydogdu6158]

The biggest weakness of this aircraft is that it has no protection against land mines.

[@roberthurley8366]

Imagine a stealth aircraft so stealthy that no one has ever seen it...... not even people who are supposed to be flying it, building it or associated with it.... it's almost like it doesn't actually exist

[@carlschneider689]

Looks like they stole Clint Eastwood's Firefox.

[@Waltham1892]

My favorite feature of the "F-313" is the air intakes above and behind the leading edge extensions. This means that when the aircraft flies at any AOA, the intakes are going to be feeding the engines turbulent airflow. At high AOA, the engines will receive very little airflow, if any at all. Add to this the far to small cockpit, general aviation instrumentation and general toyish quality of the aircraft and you've got a whole lot of nothing.

[@Scudboy17]

Its always amazing how all of these mock stealth aircraft always look they were designed by a model hobbyist with no understanding of aerodynamics and engineering.

[@Fuck_Snowflakes]

It has a car radio inside.

[@saibibinkeli]

BRAVOS IRAN YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY MIRACLES FOR BEST DREAMS OF INVENTORY OF MODERN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR MODERN FIGHTER JETS FOR COUNTRY SELF DEFEND PURPOSES CONGRATULATIONS MAKE THE BEST BETTER AAMIN YA ALLAH 🙏

[@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM]

That aircraft fooled no one.

[@nicholasmazzarella2720]

Dark Awesome video thanks for all the great content

I love sci-fi Revell's modelmakings in 1/2 :)

[@mrhassell]

The most stealthy plane, that never flew. Impossible to detect in the air!

[@icegiant1000]

Besides, all the cool kids know that if your airplane needs to use cannards, you didn't design it right.

[@RogerMiller-td5yc]

I still have to turn it to 1.25 for the nostalgia.

[@randallminchew6780]

That’s a cute little toy they have there.

[@lomax343]

1:45 "Although there were some tense moments during WW2..." That's a bit of an understatement. Iran was invaded by Britain from the south, and the USSR from the north - in order to create a supply line for war materiel to be sent to the Russian front. The Shah of Iran was encouraged to abdicate (read forcefully overthrown) and his son - Reza Pahlavi - installed as a puppet.

[@thesnazzycomet]

I love how you keep changing the titles xd

[@Warpathallthetime]

Slapping engines on a mockingbird lol.

[@Thect]

Out of every photo and video of this fighter available publicly, the cockpit shot is the funniest of them all. Straight up commercially available radios and screens, funny looking stick and buttons. Maybe it was a legitimate attempt at some point, but they just doesn't know what they're doing and never went anywhere with it

[@foxstrangler]

If you check a close up still, look at the cockpit walls - or lack of them. You can see the inside of the fuselage - it's glass fibre, probably built in a boatbuilder's mould. The wings are MiG 17, the canards are miniature F-101 Voodoo.

[@Fister_of_Muppets]

Within the next ten years, I ran will have fugured out a way for 100 big Iranian men to throw the model into the air like a big paper airplane.

[@miketran4289]

I reckon they tried to build a wooden model of the F-19 model kit.

[@kdrapertrucker]

That didn't fool anyone, it was too small, and had car tires on it's landing gears.

[@dlxmarks]

And by "Fooled Everyone" you meant "Fooled No One"

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Dark X.

[@NormReitzel]

The underrated weapon is the one that strikes hardest - The art of War - Sun Tsu.

[@infoscholar5221]

Ridiculous. All Iran has been able to do in this vein so far, is make a dozen or so inferior copies of the long discontinued US A-5 trainer/light fighter airframe, that are also still in their inventory, along with aging F-4 Phantoms and their prized forty or so F-14 Tomcats, forty odd years on. Not impressive, by any measure. If we look at the performance of the Russian military in Ukraine, against its tendency, post-Soviet era, to parade weapon platforms they could not afford to procure in numbers- think, Armata T-14, or Flankers, I think Iranian, and, indeed, Chinese military claims, come into tighter focus.

[@kdrapertrucker]

F-5

[@charlesforbin6937]

I REMEMBER HEARING A FIGHTER PILOT SAYING,"THE BEST PLACE FOR KANARDS.....IS ON THE ENEMY's PLANE."

[@littlejefe494]

I wouldn't frown on a squadron of f14s , them airframes are legendary....

[@Paladin1873]

Amazing what can be done with fiberglass and glue.

[@chriss-nf1bd]

It looks like the US deminstator Bird of Pray...

[@c.r.6172]

I bought one and used it as uber pick up.

[@TheRealRedRooster]

Those taxi shots look like fakes, with no lit up engine visible. At all...

[@MrCateagle]

The inlets are going to be problematic in maneuvering combat. Never mind the other problems.

[@drshoe8744]

That thing reminds me of the "Peacemaker Drone" from the 83 Movie "Deal of the Century!" Nothing but FX!

[@Dingomush]

So, the manned version of the drone version of the manned version of the fighter jet is slated to be released. I’m guessing that it will be the same as the drone, and the pilots are required to ride the payload all the way to the target, just like the drones did? Less loss of avionics that way, for sure! But leaves your country a bit short on experienced pilots, unless you are letting cadets fly these things…….Six of one/ Half dozen of the other! Either way…sounds brilliant!…..

[@z0phi3l]

The fact that Western military leaders are not concerned is all you need to know about this, if it was remotely capable there would be some concerns, and not relegated to letting experts make fun of it

[@_hide_-lb1gk]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 bro, that thing didn't fool anybody. As soon as the first pic made it to the public it got shredded.

[@perkins1439]

Avionics could be in the Hull of it and that could be the new predator drone

[@jes2731]

It took them a decade to build a non-operational lawn-dart.

[@RolfSAMA]

This plane looks like someone has just painted over TV cartons & put them together 😅 paint cover alone seems highly uneven

[@mehrdad4784]

it's possibly fiberglass.

[@poodlescone9700]

I want to see someone steal Iran's design and make it into a real stealth fighter just to troll them.

[@Golden-dog88]

greatest stealth ever created never seen by eye or radar

[@jannevellamo]

A stealth fighter that never has been seen is obviously the best in the world.

[@00Beowulf00]

I am not a aviation expert but wouldn't the size and positioning of the canard wings make the main wings largely ineffective??

[@Some-Guy1127]

Ehhh maybe my main issue with it are the size of the intakes they seem to small for the engine to get enough air.

[@mehrdad4784]

​@@Some-Guy1127to my eyes they look about the same size as f-5 intakes.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Must be a very good stealth aircraft

[@ZZstaff]

Thank you

[@devildogcrewchief3335]

That aircraft will be reminiscent of the AM6 Zero...there is no way with the small size of that frame can you carry the amour, ammunition and fuel necessary to be effective as a modern day fighter yet it would be very maneuverable.

[@peterresetz1960]

It could be very maneuverable without all that fuel weapons and electronics.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

at least iran was honest and pulled the deal back to do more modifications, not like usaf lying about f35 and f22 with no combat records, lol

[@devildogcrewchief3335]

@@syncopatedfeb4770 The F35 and F22 may not have combat records yet but what Iranian fighters do you suggest can fight against them? Yeah, that's what I thought....none. And when the Paks sent F16's to intercept the Bin Laden raid, what scared them off? An F22.

[@syncopatedfeb4770]

@@devildogcrewchief3335 you might want to try and use your brain, you're saying that f22 is going to fire blanks at iran and iran would respond with any of its aircrafts like kowsar or heck a drone can blow the f22 to pieces if it can't defend itself, lol

[@devildogcrewchief3335]

@@syncopatedfeb4770 No, you might want to use your brain because the armament on the F22 is not hung outside on pylons, it's hung inside of compartments, that is part of the stealth technology. Dude you're dreaming, you want to hate so much but don't have the facts to do it with.

[@MedicineRunner]

Yea so I have this rule that even if I like a video, I can’t logically give it a thumbs up if the thumbnail is misleading.

[@ROTNReaper]

That Windshield is +5 RCS

[@oculusangelicus8978]

I'd say that after the "revolution" in Iran, their decision to build their own aircraft rather than rely upon foreign sources was not "inexplicable" as you said, but one that is well advised, since they already knew that Russian fighters were inferior to American fighters, and they would not be able to buy from Any European sources since they were mostly NATO and on top of that, no western nation wanted to be the one to supply a clearly antagonistic nation such as Iran with top quality fighter jets, so their choices were extremely limited. SO rather than buy crap aircraft like Russian or Chinese or any other nations aircraft, the decision to build their own was a very good idea. However, they found out that it is something that is a lot easier said than done, especially when there are a vast amount of embargoes on your nation that prevent you from getting the things you need to make your own aircraft. Also they do not have the industries within your own borders that would allow in-house developed and built fighter jets. that is why this thing never became reality. and that is a side-effect from a Government that creates a toxic society and one that stagnates because of religious beliefs interfering with scientific development.