1)3D CAD models are great, you can make anything in 3D and it will show it should work in theory.
2) For that Iran would either have already made research into what is active material cancellation. so called smart materials that literally know how to eat up radar waves. Otherwise, as soon as its reflected energy exceeds that of the background.. the F-18 will pick this aircraft up.
3)From the mockup it seems all the aircraft carries is a Chinese knockoff of a pioneer car LCD(with 6 CD changer capability). So if an incoming aircraft is not emitting much at all, the Passive sensor wont pick much up. You may lock something up with a passive sensor( If you know where the emissions are coming from). There are the good old ground based passive detection systems such s the much touted Czech Vera system. However Lockheed Martin has something like this available but I seriously doubt that Iran could come up with this when their mockups still sport car audio electronics.
http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/mil/radar/sentry.pdf
However, even this requires certain backup from active emitting sources to truly get an accurate fix. And if there is already heavy jamming involved with enough trons to simply block out such passive sensors. I wonder how accurate any guidance would be in such a scenario.
4) No idea what particular long range air defense systems Iran possesses that are capable of knocking down an AWACS operating a hundred miles outside of its airspace. Not even the much touted FD-2000 Passive emitter version of the HQ-9 claims such capabilities anymore. Quite simply put, any passive sensor relies on emissions. Emissions that would have to come within the threshold of a sensor to guide a missile all the way out some 200km to an area where the missile will have to use its own passive sensor to look for such an emitter and then engage. The complications for such a system going simply on passive sensing are mind boggling. @
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5)No idea how being able to do nano-tech makes you able of manufacturing TR modules
6) At present Iran has NOTHING to detect an F-18 out at 1000kms. Moreover , chances the F/A-18 Superhornet with its maximum mission radius at an average of 800km will be sitting on the carrier then. A strike package will have EW and SEAD support which will basically cause the screens of every radar that the Iranians have go white and telephone lines to clog up with nothing but noise. In reality, there is very little that Iran can do to match the Americans in a conventional war. Its true threat are its missiles which may be used for attacks against Israel(
which the US will never allow nor can it bear since Israel will not hesitate to use its nuclear weapons unlike all other states in the world since unlike the rest of us they are not answerable to anyone). Even out of those , many will be lost to US Shipbased interceptors like the SM-3. Iran's best gamble against the US is going for a guerilla war from Day one. i.e a Guerilla war with whatever it has and specifically threatening GCC states so that their panic reflects on their support for US actions in the theater.
As for this fiberglass mockup which made Iran a joke after they claimed it is the real deal.. It will probably NEVER see the light of day just as the much more promising Shafaq did not. Iran's capabilities are best judged by the Saeqeh and any improvements on that are all that they will achieve.
There is a lot of promise in Iran but being under a sycophant ridden Mullah regime they will not be able to achieve much or anything worthy of achievement will not have political backers to actually have it see realization. Jokes like this aircraft will go through because their military is now headed by rhetoric and propaganda mostly. The brilliance that was Iran even under the puppet monster that was the Shah was still better since there was merit to a certain extent. Right now, there are still brilliant engineers in Iran.. but none of those are associated with jokes like the Qaher.
