How much of this is based on American Technology that Barry gave them on his apology tour?

Let´s see if it can fly.

Looks like a dressed up rocket with a human payload to boot.

Wonder if the pilots have been taught to land?

Can that thing land on the water? It looks like a boat.

The real test is in the air, against deadly competition.

"Bull fight critics row on row, ring the plaza full. But there is only one who´s there that knows and that´s the one who fights the bull."

...if our aircraft carriers were made by Revell, and painted by a 13 boy and his dad.

I have done some serious checking on this. It is another Iranian hoax. The fighter in the "show room´ is a wooden mock-up. The ejection seat is real, but, from a trainer. The cockpit display has been shown to be from a few cell phone displays and an I-pad type device. The video whoing it "flying" is a model airplane, radio control, which is admitted in their language "squirggly writng". One of the first things experts took now of was the fact they do not show the aircraft in taxi mode, full scale, on a runway. they just suddenly show this flying video. Based on the jerky way the airplane is flying, with sudden maneuvers, erratic in level flight, it´s most definitely a light weight balsa or fiberglass model (supporting the Farsi explanation under the video). So, until we see it at the Paris Air Show, it´s just another Iranian hoax, kind of like their silly monkey in space hoax.

I can see the plastic model cement dripping from the wings.

Saw some video and pictures....piloted by midgets.

Looks perfect as a trainer for their cadre of monkey astronauts.

Kelly Johnson of Skunk Works fame, when he first saw the F-22 stealth bomber, said, “Well, it goes to show that with enough power you can make an outhouse fly.”

This thing looks like and outhouse, but with those tiny air intakes, it can’t have much in the way of power.

It’s fake.

Reportedly runs on dried goat dung.

#11, reminds me of our saying about the F-4; given enough thrust, a crowbar WILL fly.

Can we see an actual human next to the thing to get some size perspective? Perhaps start, taxi, takeoff, maneuvers, etc? A photo of a model airplane doesn´t impress me much.

In this story I went to the link about the Saeqeh ´fighter´ [http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9006180081] which looks exactly like an F-5, very limited range and armament. The Saeqeh is called the Thunderbolt, and they also have a jet called the Azarakhsh, or Lightning. Both look like short range F-5s. And I know what you´re all thinking: sing it with me: "Thunderbolt and Lightning, very very frightening, ME!"

If you guys want to tangle with the US Navy, I say bring it!!!!

Nice model airplane. When do they build the real thing?

not even a Japanese kamakazi would fly it.

The US sold the Iranians F-5s and F-14s during the 60s and 70s before the revolution. That airplane is an F-5 with a remanufactured twin-tail "boat tail." The single tail F-5/T-38 boat tail uncouples from the fuselage so one can work/replace the engines.

It is nothing new and it seems Baghdad Bob has a new gig. Yawn.

Don´t retract the gear.

LOL! Show me even ONE that flies and carries any weapons, and I´ll pay attention. This is BS.