re: #142 Varek Raith

Ok, guys, let’s say this really is a serious attempt *giggle*
It’ll be years, years, before such a plane ever went into production, let alone actual deployment.

The first F-22 prototypes flew in the 1990s. The first squadrons didn’t go active for another decade. The F-35 prototypes flew 6 years ago and production versions won’t officially go into service until 2017. Russia and China have both flown prototypes of their own 5th Gen fighters and aren’t even close to beginning production.

Iran has neither the experience or industrial capacity to match any of these countries, so assuming this is an actual aircraft, don’t expect the first production examples to reach operational status until sometime around 2020.