SOHEIL
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Just with the current economic/political conditions and sanctions on the country. This aircraft will need assistance from foreign companies because building something like this isnt just simply reverse engineering. If the IRAF and Iran actually wants a proper aircraft that will function as an actual fighter and be able to compete with its rivals. Then it will absolutely require input and technologies from other countries that are already working in that field.
That will result in those that provide Iran with any sort of help, being blacklisted. Which will end or severely damage those companies and halt the program. Iran can try to steal technologies but that will also result in blacklisting and/or more sanctions on Iran or just its airforce but nonetheless ending the program.
With the current situation in the gulf, the US will also be at a predicament if this was let to establish. That would mean mass production and more competition for the USAF/navy. If previous conflicts are kept in mind and studied then its very clear that the US uses its airforce to a very demanding extent, in all its conflicts. So they will do anything in their power to stop this from happening.
Pakistan, when developing the Jf-17 also faced resistance for the US and the project was very well hidden, but all attempts were made to derail the project. Now imagine that happening with an even more hostile state to the US and they are trying to build a 5th gen aircraft, of all things. The answer is, that if Iran ever manages to be build it, then IRAF wont see it. Nor end up gaining anything.
Since 1979 we heard this annoying sentences : You can't do this ... You can't do that ... It's impossible ... etc !
Everything depends on your mentality ...
Just imagine a day comes that you have no value for china ! what will happen ?
We all know JF-17 (FC-1) mostly done by china !
And other stuff which imported directly from china and other countries ... Like AD systems , drones , etc
What are you going to do if political climate changes and you won't be able to import stuff ...
You are screwed ! because the "no you can't" fucked up mentality wasted your time !
Pakistan has the brain power to develop it's own SLV based on Shaheen or Ababeel but people say no we can use chinese SLVs , it's waste of money !
That's wrong ... because you have a suitable platform for a polar slv !
And it's possible to fund the project if you stop the ongoing corruption and use foreign investments properly !
Same goes for everything !
We started our work on AD systems with reverse engineering US made Hawk systems ... and work continued until we gained enough confidence to announce bavar-373 long range air defence system project about 10 years ago when russians refused to deliver s-300 ... a mockup from a possible design paraded and almost everyone mocked us and called it oil drums which are welded together for propaganda purposes !
But we proved them to be so wrong :
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Do you remember what happened when qaher unveiled ?
They mocked us !
They joked our early step to design and develop a new fighter jet ...
It's small ... no enough space for pilot ... no radome ... funny ... etc
Oil drums story happened again !
Mockup unveiled in February 2013 ...
On 15 April 2017 prototype 08 unveiled :
08 is clearly larger (compare able with F-5 in size)... functional landing gears ... full scale cockpit ... etc
Now more than 2 years passed and probably we are going to see changes and improvements again ...