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Iran's -313 stealth fighter

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There are some pictures of it in the article <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/world-trembles-in-confusion-andor-fear-at-irans-fiberglass-airplane" source="Ars Technica" author="Lee Hutchinson">World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran’s fiberglass airplane</a>. 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 <iq>canopy has ludicrously bad optical qualities—note the scratches and distortion.</iq> <img src="{att_link}iranplane-pilot02.jpg" href="{att_link}iranplane-pilot02.jpg" align="center" class="frame" caption="Plane with pilot"> 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.