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Looks remarkably like a F5 to me?
http://news.sky.com/story/president-rou ... t-11478175

Interesting to see it taxiing with the FOD guards still in place.

I'm sure potential enemies are quaking in their flying boots!

I'm so bitterly disappointed with the "big reveal" - I was expecting some sort of Iranian copy of BAe's Tempest.

It's not even their best modification of the F-5, that must surely be the "Armita" - a modified RF-5A:-

[img]https://ibb.co/dvuUDK/img]

Imagine- a reconnaissance aircraft able to perform low, medium and high-altitude photo-recce, all while carrying another pilot, co-pilot, navigator, flight engineer, 5 x cabin crew and up to 152 passengers (and their luggage)

[url]http://www.airliners.net/photo/Iranian- ... Pw4%3D/url]

I'll get my coat.....

What they showed on Forces TV in primer taxying looked like a large CASA 101 hardly earth shattering,

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Nighthawke wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:35 pm

I'm sure potential enemies are quaking in their flying boots!

They need to ban Airfix in Iran.

Looks like they've gone back to square one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5lFaB7Tcs

The one in the OP post has a single vertical stabiliser, whilst the one in the latest clearly has a V shaped tail empennage.

GaryS wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:46 pm

Looks remarkably like a F5 to me?
http://news.sky.com/story/president-rou ... t-11478175

That isn't their new aircraft but an aircraft associated with the testing of the new Kowsar.

This is the Kowsar. Clearly based on the Taiwanese ADIC AT-3.



Video at following link.

https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/statu ... 9632083968

T_J wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:58 pm

This is the Kowsar. Clearly based on the Taiwanese ADIC AT-3.

By 'based on', I guess you mean that they've closely copied the configuration...?

If you look at the detail, there's not a single part of it that is actually the same, so it certainly isn't a 'Chinese' ( ) copy....

Seahornet1 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:49 am

T_J wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:58 pm

This is the Kowsar. Clearly based on the Taiwanese ADIC AT-3.

By 'based on', I guess you mean that they've closely copied the configuration...?

If you look at the detail, there's not a single part of it that is actually the same, so it certainly isn't a 'Chinese' ( ) copy....

I thought that was "clearly" obvious in my post.

Based on a Drawing found on the back of a packet of Fags i would say,