Another Daily Mail fail

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cg_341
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Another Daily Mail fail

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"Iran launches its first homemade fighter jet which looks suspiciously like a decades-old American F5"!

First point the article makes is "Domestically built twin-seat Kowsar was displayed in a flypast in Tehran today"

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I wonder, perhaps, if that's because pictured is an IRIAF F-5F Tiger II?! There's a video included in the article which shows the aircraft's serial number to be 3-7400. Oddly enough, in the same block as all their F-5s.

Oh, by the way, this is a Kowsar...

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Looks like an F-5 to me!

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Iran has modified some of its F5s with twin tail fins (Saeqeh 2) but they have been around a while now also.

What ever it is i bet not that good.

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To be fair, Forces news also reported it is a new fighter, without even mentioning the F-5. :grin:

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To be fair to the Daily Mail and Forces Network, it appears the Iranian News Agency are the source of the confusion...

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Aha, cleared up nicely now!

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So the topic title is a fail, then......
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Even with all the "It's an F-5", "No it's not" guff behind us, the Kowsar looks an awful lot like the Taiwanese-designed and built AIDC AT-3 Tzu Chung rather than the indigenous clean-sheet design the Iranians are saying it is.
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