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| Iran's 'fake' fighter jet which experts say can't fly is spotted in the air (with a little help from Photoshop) | |
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| ALAN | Feb 13 13, 8:02 Post #1 |
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* Iran unveiled its homemade Qaher-313 stealth fighter jet last week * Experts spotted design flaws and expressed doubts about the aircraft * Suspect pictures of the jet in flight thought to be fake Iran's freshly unveiled fighter jet has already been derided by aviation experts who likened the plane to a mock-up model and expressed serious doubts over whether it could actually fly. And a new picture of the domestically produced Qaher-313 apparently soaring over Iranian mountains has done little to curb scepticism, amid claims the plane never actually left the ground but was simply superimposed over the snow-capped peaks using Photoshop. Iran, which unveiled the stealth fighter jet at a ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Admadinejad earlier this month, claims its aircraft is capable of evading radar, carrying weapons and flying at low altitude. ![]() Doctored? The picture on an Iranian news site shows the jet apparently soaring over snowy mountains ![]() Similarities: This picture of the fighter jet at its unveiling is virtually identical to the so-called action shot of the aircraft in flight But when the picture of the jet supposedly in flight was published on the Khouz News website, eagle-eyed Iranians quickly pointed out the similarities between the image and a picture of the aircraft taken at the official unveiling in Tehran on February 2, according to a France 24 report. The two pictures of the plane are identical save for the backdrop, with the Tehran aircraft hangar replaced by Iran's Mount Damavand in the so-called action shot of the Qaher-313. ![]() Photoshop: Eagle-eyed observers claim the Iranian jet was superimposed upon a generic picture of Mount Damavand Aviation experts who examined photographs of Iran's jet at its unveiling drew comparisons with a miniature plane. David Cenciotti, of The Aviationist blog, said the jet appeared to be 'nothing more than a large mock-up model' and that the 'basic' cockpit would struggle to even accommodate a pilot. ![]() Ceremony: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was present at the unveiling of the Qahar-313 in Tehran earlier this month His views were echoed by experts from aviation magazine Flight International, who said they suspected poor-quality footage released by Iran of the aircraft in flight was in fact of a remote-controlled plane fashioned to resemble the Qaher-313. The president of the Islamic republic insisted at the unveiling that the Qaher-313 reflected Iran's will to 'conquer scientific peaks'. Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the jet had been designed and built by Iranian aerospace experts and was capable of flying at low altitude, carrying weapons, engaging enemy aircraft and landing at short airstrips. ![]() Defiant: Iran claims its domestically manufactured jet boasts state-of-the-art technology and can evade radar It is one of several military designs rolled out by Iran's military since 2007. Tehran has repeatedly claimed to have developed advanced military technologies in recent years but its claims cannot be independently verified because the country does not release technical details of its arsenals. The Islamic republic launched a self-sufficiency military program in the 1980s to compensate for a Western weapons embargo that banned export of military technology and equipment to Iran. Daily Mail |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Feb 13 13, 8:03 Post #2 |
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from the comments on the article "Experts maintain that the bumble bee does not have enough wing area to support its body weight, so it cannot fly; the bumble bee does not know this, and flies anyway. An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows almost everything about next to nothing. - Arklight , Las Vegas, 13/2/2013 00:19 You should try reading a bit more. That old piece of tosh was discredited many years ago". "Too hokey. Flaps 20 percent deployed, ground and air. Same blue lights glinting off fuselage ground and air. No access panels anywhere I sight. I'd be concerned with what it is t what they don't want us to look at while we are fascinating over this farcical model". |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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