Well sport I could explain the process of breathing if you`d like,but it is a bit complicated and frankly you dont really seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer so to speak....
I guess that would depend on ones definition of "puny" now wouldnt?.For instance just recently the iranians had a war game where they deployed over 50 ucavs plus other assorted drones,this was the largest ever ucav deployment in the mena region.Now when one does some simple math one can see that the weight of fire power deployed by a force of this size is around 100-120+ odd glide bombs,if we then imagine this force being used against a tempting target like this air base in the uae just a short flight across hormuz...
..now just look at all those nice juicy us f15s sitting out there in the open parked right next to each other in a nice grid pattern for ease of targeting.Now even if you only conservatively used 2 glide bombs apiece just to knock out rather than destroy these aircraft,that would still leave you anywhere from another 48-68 glide bombs to use on whatever else you wanted,or you could use 4 glide bombs on each one just to make damn sure.All in all not too bad for such a supposedly "puny" weapon,but then its just like that old cliche:Its not how big it is,its what you do with it that really counts.
You see sport,the whole point of using assisted take off is that it allows for a far more compact aircraft.Now iran could`ve gone for a ucav based on a medium sized male class design with its own fixed landing gear that could do its own take offs such as the new mohajer 6,however this would`ve offered little combat advantage in real terms as it would`ve had little more weapons carrying capacity while having a much larger radar signature,oh and it also would`ve required decent runways to operate from,tho unfortunately these have tended to have a rater regrettable habit of being knocked out fairly quickly during enemy air campaigns for some reason.By comparison however a vehicle based assisted take off system can use literally ANY road and can also deploy large numbers of ucavs virtually simultaneously and very quickly unlike gas/pneumatic catapults or rocket boosters.
Did you ever see the have blue prototype of the f117?,it was also pretty small,in fact around half the size and a quarter of the weight of the f117 production machine,not too mention a few physical differences as well.Now its quite possible that the Q313 is just like have blue ie a scaled down half sized prototype of the intended production machine,but I guess we`ll just have to wait and see.Still the very fact that iran actually went ahead with building a prototype after so many of the "experts" scoffed at the mock up shows that iran certainly took the design seriously,not to mention that if the rc models were able to fly then I think theres a good chance that the prototype could as well.
Lastly you do realise that aircraft development programs usually take years to reach fruition,right?.
