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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="MCanabal" data-source="post: 1461987" data-attributes="member: 14631">Iran’s Faux Stealth Fighter Makes Embarrassing Second AppearanceConqueror warplane is still outrageously fakeIn February 2013, Iran unveiled what it claimed was its first radar-evading jet fighter prototype—<a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/337fd4ac7a98">the F-313 Conqueror</a>.Angular and painted matte black, at first glance the F-313 certainly looked the part. But closer inspection revealed that the Conqueror was a fake. And not even a very good fake.The plane’s first public appearance was in <a href="http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2013/02/irans-new-qaher-313-stealth-fi/">photos</a>snapped while the F-313 was on the ground. A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Aynt78r00">video</a>accompanied the snapshots claiming to show the Conqueror in flight, but the vehicle depicted was obviously a small-scale model.Now Iran’s, ahem, “stealth jet” has made another appearance, in a photo purporting to show the F-313 being prepped for taxi tests. But the Conqueror is no more a real warplane in its second public display than it was in its debut.It‘s still too small, for one. The cockpit probably could not fit a normal-sized human being. And the engine lacks a nozzle, meaning that sustained flight would likely melt the back end of the plane in mid-air.The layout is still all wrong. “The aircraft sports fixed canards and air intakes a bit too small to feed a modern jet plane’s engine,” aviation expert <a href="http://theaviationist.com/2013/11/23/f-313-new-photo/">David Cenciotti</a> points out. “They are located above the wing meaning that at high AoA — angle of attack—the intakes would get turbulent or no air at all for the engine.”<img src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*ahXSDB6YusFtvrSjqwM-lA.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> And owing to the limited surface area, a reasonable weapons load-out would be impossible without attaching a bomb to the top of the fuselage, meaning the jet would have to <a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/337fd4ac7a98">roll upside down</a> in order to actually drop the munition.Alfred Wong, a model-maker with Fantastic Plastic who created a build-it-yourself scale F-313, thinks he knows how Tehran pieced together its fake stealth fighter.“When I was examining the photos of the prototype/mock-up, I guessed that they actually cut up an old MiG-17’s wings for it—the wings have a very distinctive plan shape,” Wong explains. “So for the pattern I bought a 1:72[-scale] MiG-17 and cut up the wings in the same manner—and it was indeed a perfect match!”The Conqueror’s recent appearance is merely the second act in a uniquely Iranian military theater production. China at least builds loopy warplane prototypes <a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/1766036badc0">that actually fly</a>, even if they aren’t viable candidates for mass production.But Tehran seems content to merely pretend to design new warplanes … and to put on an unconvincing show of its supposed engineering prowess.<a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5026447fd2fa">https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5026447fd2fa</a></blockquote>

Verificación: Libertador de Argentina