Contrast to China, which unveiled the J-20 to the world not by doing a big event, but just by doing taxi tests and test flights where people could see with cellphone cameras and then letting the evidence go out uncensored.
Also, China actually has the technical knowledge* to put together a modern stealth fighter. *(All stolen from Lockheed-Martin, but hey... they have it!)
Then let that serve as a warning to Americans, Iranian cell phone cameras can see stealth planes with ease.
I once managed to convince a not terribly bright former colleague that the parked rows of airsteps off in a corner of the airport weren't just stood there, they were actually attached to stealth airliners. She was a lovely girl but had no filters for reality.
Oh come on that wing leading edge is far too rounded for it to be real. if that were on a real plane it would have a maximum speed of like 60km/hr. And that canopy! you can't see shit out of that, you can see how scratchy and distorting it is in the picture. what what? right. fuckers be trolling us
The Iranians probably built their fighter with tech shared by the North Koreans from their space shuttle program:
You guys are all out to persecute these poor Iranians. I mean, look at the inside of the cockpit! Tell me that doesn't just look like the most awesome in-flight entertainment deck ever. 4 monitors, a combo Blu-Ray/DVD player (Right above topmost screen), there's even a casette player for those times you are waxing nostalgic (under bottom middle screen). Shit this thing looks awesome.
Well, under the seat is a box full of dvds and cassette tapes, so it doesn't surprise me that they gave them a stadium seat cushion and the backboard from the local pool as their only means of being comfortable.
Top Gun is way too advanced. They obviously lifted the cockpit design from Iron Eagle. It only plays Gimme Some Lovin' and pre-recorded advice from Chappy.
I like how they didn't even bother color-correcting the cut-and-pasted fake jet. They even enhanced the blue of the background, which makes the warm, indoor lighting and reflections on the jet even more obvious. I mean, come on. *I* could do a better 'Shop than that.
Srsly who do they think they're fooling? They can't imagine that foreign governments are going to fall for this shit, so it must be for domestic consumption. But it's not like Iranians lack internet access; they'll pretty easily figure out that it's all a bunch of shops.
Really doesn't hlep much, the very obvious light source from below the tail of the aircraft ruins it.
Yeah, fixing that would require more effort than I am willing to exert. But hey! Even the two minutes that I did spend fixing it is more than Iran's Photoshop guy put into it.
It was actually debunked by an Iranian blog, and if you read the comments a number of people note that this image was originally posted on khouznews.ir, and not necessarily released by the Iranian government. Whether they got the image from the government or it's just some shitty news site so desperate for hits that they doctored up a photo themselves, I couldn't say. It's a pretty lazy effort, either way. I mean hell, take a picture from a different angle at least.
By that rationale, the USA should have no more Birthers, no more flat earthers, no more anti-vaxxers.....
Fools. You've all been taken in by this advanced aircraft's camouflage system, with which it always appears to be parked on the Ayatollah-powered exhibit. When the great intifadah is finally let loose upon the Great Devil, the American pilots will see this glorious machine flying at them, scoff "it's a hoax!" and ignore it.
While the latest 'shop is maybe at the "just from some website" threshold, the overall "Qaher-313" thing as a whole certainly isn't, and the photos with Ahmadinejad in-frame are pretty ridiculous themselves. One hopes for a certain amount of official embarrassment.
Yeah, plus there's a strong reflected green light on the fin right under the F-313 decal. As for that blue neon color, it's obvious the Iranians just want to copy our love for snazzy underglow: I'm kind of curious how long the U.S. government sat in the Situation Room and considered the validity of the information before finally bursting into uproarious laughter at it.
Ahmadinejad under fire from conservative critics for picture of him consoling Hugo Chavez’s mother so he orders to have her Photoshopped out.
