Everyone on here and on IMF thought it was real fighter jet. It took them forever to accept the reality that it was not and a ploy by Ahmadinejad as a PR stunt.
I will never forget the look on DM Daeghan face when he had to defend the project shortly after mock up unveiling. You could tell he was frustrated by the higher powers for unveiling such a project and using it for propaganda. Believe it or not there are many in IR military apparatus that take their job and image of their country seriously.
Unfortunately their is a significant amount of people who also just want to engage in propaganda.
First if all, Qahar was unveiled by Vahidi not Dehghan (so much of your memory!),
secondly, Qaher was the start of a progress in fighter design, as the head of project said, they may change any aspect of the design during it's development, yet each part would give us precious information, unlike when some smart arse says US doesn't have it so don't research on it!
Nonetheless design was based on the characteristics and missions which the designer had defined for it, not the wild ideas of random guys with world war II imaginations.
thirdly, even Azaraksh would have been a PR stunt, if it was supposed to be suspended by a traitor defense minister (like Dehghan) a few month later, not to mention that Zionist media even mocked the Kowsar as a refurbished F5, and to this very day they still mock Iran when it suites them, like the time their officials said Iranian missiles are photoshop!
Despite all the shortcoming of the unveiling, I'm glad it was unveiled during Ahmadinejad, otherwise traitors would have unveiled it later in their name and then suspended it, like Fotros drone (win win for themselves, and loose loose for Iran).
