Combat Aircraft Projects & Designs - Index in 2nd post

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post #484 from ANTIBODY made me post in this thread regarding Iranian Aeronautical industry and its achievements.

Iranians have come up with some really radical and ambitious designs. Looking at the Azarakhsh
That eventually evolved into Saeqeh clearly shows the capability Iranians that virtually cut off from the access to the modern technology since the Islamic revolution. The designs do suggest refer to F5s and tiger shark but making and flying a airworthy airframe is not something that can be played down. If it was that easy almost every nation with money would have had its own aircraft based on some other existing fighter jet.

Following is yet another plane from them called Shafaq meaning the “light of Dawn”
This plane is even more ambitious and shows that Iranians are not short of ideas. What is more impressive is that is all happening in the face of complete military and technological embargo.


Shafaq

(Role trainer/ attack aircraft) there are some similarities with Chinese L-15 and Russian Yak-130. But nonetheless an achievement. When compared to other Arab countries loaded with petro-dollars & American blessings, this really is some achievement. I guess PAC can learn a lot from Iran.

in the posts regarding single engined concepts --[ index to find it in my signature] , ive posted a pic of a mig concept [4.7/5th gen] bought off be the iranians

Muchamedov Integral and Integral-2010

Finally Fatidinovi Muchamedovi managed to sell his concept of Iran and there working on the development of fighter Shafagh .

Muchamedov Vityaz 2000

 

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Electronic warfare

EF-111A Raven

EA-18G Growler

EA-6B Prowler

 

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The unmanned X-47B takes off at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
(Credit: Northrop Grumman)

Read more: X-47B robot stealth plane makes first flight | Crave - CNET

Only six years after the film "Stealth," Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its much ballyhooed X-47B robot stealth plane, successfully completing a 29-minute test flight to 5,000 feet at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Developed under a $635 million Navy contract, the unmanned, tailless jet provides greater range and power by taking off from aircraft carriers, delivering laser-guided bombs and refueling in the air.

The test flight, which had been expected to take place over a year ago, is a first step to demonstrating the plane on a carrier. Northrop Grumman now says that will happen in 2013 instead of this year.

The plane can fly at a "high subsonic" top speed, much faster than UAVs such as the Predator and Reaper drones.

The bat-winged X-47B has a wingspan of 62.1 feet, a maximum payload of 4,500 pounds, a host of sensor systems and a range of more than 2,100 nautical miles. It can be remotely piloted or programmed in advance for mission objectives.

It can also fly at over 40,000 feet, allowing deployments for intelligence-gathering, precision attacks and ballistic missile detection. It's slated for additional tests at Naval Air Station Patuxent River before carrier trials.

Another unmanned combat air vehicle, Britain's Taranis unmanned stealth plane is also to begin test flights this year.

Read more: X-47B robot stealth plane makes first flight | Crave - CNET

 

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Sonic booms aren't just cheesy ranged weapons that Guile from Street Fighter uses to defend his epic flat-top. They're the result of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier. And they can be loud enough to deafen E. Honda.

The nerve-rattling noise factor has restricted much supersonic travel to the world's oceans, limiting intercontinental flight to sub-Mach speeds. But a series of experiments being conducted by NASA are aimed at enabling a new generation of supersonic crafts that can dampen or even eliminate sonic booms.

Read more: NASA's push to quiet sonic booms | Crave - CNET

 

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wind tunnel test for some china small EW plane