Month: February 2013

Iran Unveils New Stealth Fighter ~ LOL (LiveLeak Commentary)

Published by Papa Giorgio

A Joke, some commentary from The Aviationist:

The canopy material is at least odd (based on its transparency, it looks like plexiglass or something like that).

The cockpit seems to be basic (a bit too much for a modern plane – note the lack of wiring behind the front panel and the presence of few instruments, some of those similar to those equipping small private planes…).

The nose section is so small almost no radar could fit in it.

The air intakes are extremely small (they remind those of current drones/unmanned combat aerial vehicles) whereas the engine section lacks any kind of nozzle: engine afterburners could melt the entire jet.

And, above all, the aircraft is way to small.

Look at the following image showing an Iranian officer sitting on the ejection seat in the cockpit. It looks like this pilot is in a miniature plane.

Summing up: the shape is interesting with some innovative features but the Q-313 displayed on Feb. 1, 2013, seems to be nothing more than a large mock up model (not properly sized to accommodate a real pilot….).

Update

There is a video allegedly showing the Q-313 in the air. Here it is.

Even if it is not the first flight of the aircraft as some of The Aviationist readers say, the way the depicted plane flies is suspect. It seems a radio-controlled scale model more than a modern fighter jet.

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I have to share the many comments on the above found at LiveLeak:

  • A lot of people have been taken in by this. The large plane is a fiberglass model, which is very clear in closeup photos. The news footage of it “flying” actually shows a small RC version with jet sounds overdubbed. The Iranians have even admitted it’s a model in the news footage. I just can’t imagine living in a country where the government and air force fly an RC model on the main news, in the hope it’ll trick people into believing it’s real. Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe it. ~ FishandChips
  • I used to ride in one of those when I was a kid. They had them at the supermarket, you put a quarter in and they would buzz and shake around a bit. Fun! ~ Frogfish ////////// @Frogfish lucky bastard, my supermarket only had a helicopter : ) ~ TheFusser
  • that`s for real a stealth fighter jet, i can confirm…in fact, it`s so stealthy you wont see it in any fight ever ~ vly
  • manufactured in the lego factory ~ NZKiwi
  • a spitfire or P-51 mustang would knock the shit out of this thing ~ seanofthedead
  • 313… same number as Donald’s Ducks car that kept breaking down. ~ DewMe
  • does it have a 72 virgins button? ~ mohawkwarrior27
  • Barely large enough to be an unmanned drone, but a fighter? Who flies this? Hobbits? ~ Delta Epsilon
  • If one of these ever crashes DON’T GO NEAR IT. You’ll get splinters. ~ JohnA
  • Unveiled ha? even planes have more rights than women. ~ gurzang
  • why does it look like a toy!? ~ Ginny ////////// @Ginny because it is a toy… ~ oso1983
  • Undetectable to air radar, because it will never leave the ground. ~ Nothingisfree
  • Runs on Windows 95. ~ KPD
  • its a replica, used to be a toyota mr2. ~ synthien
  • The monkey showed up to fly it ~ Megadeth
  • The Yugo’s of stealth fighters. ~ Jarrod38
  • The planes name is SNACKBARA when it was UNVEILED it was stoned to death due to Islamic law ~ critterchops
  • The primary weapon system on the Snackbara Queer-313 is a spring loaded ejection seat, where the radio control operator tries to fly over the opposition, then using vr eyeglasses, the radio control pilot rolls the plane inverted, ejects the canopy, then a servo pulls a lever and the spring loaded ejection seat shoots a goat downwards, hoping to hit the target. ~ RealityChecker
  • Unveiled!!!… a tiny wooden mock up model (not even properly sized to accommodate a real pilot!)….its nothing short of ridiculous to publish these pictures in the vain hope of some serious recognition or credibility….Iran couldn’t design a stealth fighter if it wanted to…..i doubt any real or serious prototype will ever be built…these videos are hilarious! ~ DaveB123
  • Dam….the prizes in Cracker Jack boxes are getting good ~ CritterChops
  • I hope the chimp flying it survives when it’s shot down. ~ Die Humans
  • Not very Stealth when you can Smell it coming a mile away! ~ Roastbeefwithcheese
  • Look! A stealth Cessna 152! ~ aki009 /////////////// @aki009 How dare you insult the beloved C152! ~ WotWot
  • Looks like something from the model shop. The Japs made better special effect warplanes and ships in Godzilla movies. ~ Fred Garvin
  • This is such a joke. Second video at 0:22 you can see how the whole “Jet” bounces, while the pilot is moving slightly around. O’rly??? Hahahaha ~ Zeitgeist28
  • well, its obviously a fake, the pilot wiggled and the plan wiggled. Plus they forgot to stuff an engine in there to fill the obvious hole behind the pilot’s seat. ~ Assbite
  • it looks scary…. to fly ~ oso1983

Oregon Baker Refuses to Make Same-Sex Couple`s Wedding Cake ~ May Be in Trouble with the Law

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When leftists create special rights, rather than equal rights, you get the below (via The Blaze):

The case now presents a unique legal dilemma, according to reports, since Oregon law forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the U.S. Constitution protects Klein’s freedom of religion.

Klein has two weeks to file his official account what happened before the attorney general’s office decides how to proceed.

Some reflection on the issue at stake here:

Liberty, equality, fraternity was the slogan of the French Revolution. Liberty and equality were the Revolution’s operative goals, and fraternity was brought in as a cement to hold them together. For liberty and equality are not necessarily in harmony and, in fact, are often at war with each other. Keeping the peace between them therefore became the role of fraternity. Alas, fraternity has not been terribly successful at it, as the history of class struggle since the French Revolution has shown.

In the evolution of democratic theory in the past two centuries, two main currents have emerged from the same wellspring of radical individualism: the liberal stream, emphasizing liberty while acknowledging equality of civil rights, and the egalitarian stream equality of civil rights, emphasizing equality while preaching the liberty guaranteed by civil rights.

Liberal democracy understands rights as immunities from governmental interference. Their function is to prevent government from unduly restraining any individual’s liberty. The egalitarian conception of rights is much broader than the classical liberal one and includes a wide range of positive benefits to be conferred by government. It tends toward an equality of results rather than merely of opportunities. To put it crudely, it means not only that you are free to apply for the job, but that you get it and you keep it.

Liberal democratic thought has as its economic counterpart the ideology of capitalism and a free-market economic system. The egalitarian stream ushers in the ideology of socialism and a government dedicated to bringing about substantial economic equality among all citizens.

Liberalism as it exists in the United States today is an effort to have the best of both ideological worlds. It assigns to government the duty of fostering, not complete economic equality, but general and a more equal share in it for all citizens. At the same time, through an ever-expanding array of civil rights, it seeks to emancipate the individual from religious, moral, and social restraints that are not of his own choosing. The contemporary liberal ideal would be a country in which everyone was employed at high wages in work which he/she found fulfilling, without distinction of race, color, creed, gender, ethnic origin, educational background, or sexual preference, and could live by any “lifestyle” that he/she chose.

Contemporary American conservatism is largely a reaction to this brand of liberalism, and therefore is a mixed bag of views. Among its adherents we find “conservatives” who are really nineteenth-century liberals eager to get government off the back of business. We also find “social-issue” conservatives angered by the liberal dissolution of our public morality. Still others are “libertarians” who want no public morality at all but oppose liberalism because of the large role it gives government. Another group of conservatives are regionalists or “states-righters” who are against not government as such, but the federal government.

The ideological conflict between and among liberals and conservatives is carried on in terms of liberty and equality.

Francis Canavan, The Pluralist Game: Pluralism, Liberalism, and the Moral Conscience (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), 127-128.

Well Known NAVY SEAL Chris Kyle Shot by Marine Sufferring from PTS at Texas Gun Range

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Via Breitbart:

Chris Kyle, former Navy SEAL and author of the New York Times bestseller American Sniper, was one of two victims killed in a shooting at a Texas gun range Saturday.

According to a local news station, police have arrested a suspect in the slayings. The suspect reportedly shot Kyle at point-blank range while he attempted to aid a fellow veteran.

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UPDATE: A close friend tells Breitbart News that Chris Kyle was at a veterans’ charity event, helping a fellow military member learn sniper shooting technique, and that he was shot by a Marine suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. The suspect, Eddie Ray Routh, has been arrested in Lancaster, Texas in connection with the shooting.

In my past posts on Kyle, this is one of my favorite appearances by him (*language warning*)

Sad. He should have lived to an old age. I was glad to see he was helping wounded soldiers, but this good work was the end of him. He was a man of faith (The son of a Sunday-school teacher and a church deacon, Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill) and hints at his belief in his book. He has now seen his last tear and seen the final fulfillment of Isaiah 2:4 too soon. My prayers go out to his family as well as the family of the wounded Marine who did the shooting. When I first saw the story I thought that maybe because of his public stance in society a terrorist type plot was plausible.