Iran’s -313 stealth fighter
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There are some pictures of it in the article World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran’s fiberglass airplane by Lee Hutchinson (Ars Technica). There you’ll find over a dozen pictures with commentary. The commentary is, on the whole, not kind, but it’s also neither entirely information-free not unwarranted. They note in the picture below that the “canopy has ludicrously bad optical qualities—note the scratches and distortion.”
It’s also, well, it’s a lot smaller than I expected. Or, as Ars Technica put it, “[…] there’s a difference between “small” and “comical,” and the -313 is definitely erring on the wrong side of that line.“
I would go so far as to say that it looks more like a new ride at Europa Park than the future of any country’s air force. I think Iran is taking the piss.