Iranian Stealth Jet-Have you seen this?

I don't often link to outside sources, but what is up with this?
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/world-trembles-in-confusion-andor-fear-at-irans-fiberglass-airplane/
Now seriously. Is there even 1 qualified aeronautical engineer in Iran? My response: Of course! There are lots- they're called RUSSIANS. Iran's most important aviation import.
But even for Russian engineering, this is bad. Here's what's wrong with it:
There's no cowling over the cockpit panels. No sane pilot would ever take an aircraft into the air- especially one meant for high performance yanking and banking- with exposed wiring like that. And the reflection it would put on the inside of the canopy bubble would be very distracting.
Speaking of the canopy bubble- it looks like my 12-year-old son cleaned it with his gym clothes. Its filthy.
The paint job looks like it was sprayed on by a house painter. - not any indication of a rough stealthy texture at all, and not even even in some spots.
There's also video out there(liveleak,/youtube) of "it" flying. But its takeoff and landing aren't shown. They say it's to keep the plane secret. But the secret is probably that it's a 20 foot long RC plane.
The intakes are too small, and ill placed. On the Bird of Prey (pic 13 in the series in the link) and the F-22, the surfaces in front of the intakes are there to force air into the intake. On this jet, they're above an air boundary by the chin that looks mor elike it disrupts air flow, and they're pretty small to provide a jet that big, with an internal payload, enough air to feed a high thrust engine.
OK, to be fair, this could just be a mockup of the jet, a proof-of-concept. Though I'm still really iffy about those air inlets. So maybe it is just a (sloppy) concept model of something they're working on (compare the YF-22 to the F-22A). But: They have posted video of it actually flying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DUw3fvCdOw
But I'd reached the conclusion that that was a RC plane... aerodynamic tester? Probably. A lot of others have made fun of the RC plane, with the conclusion that it's a farce to bouy up their Nation's morale, and make us shake in their boots when there's actually no threat there at all.
Now, to give Iran credit... this might be legit. The World has been pretty hard on Iran, but they've proven to be REALLY resourceful, even if they did it all by bringing in the Russians to help out. Their 40 year old Tomcats are still flying (some of them), re-outfitted with indigenous (>cough< RUSSIAN >cough<) engines, radar, missiles and other stuff. Everyone said their twin-tailed F-5 was just a prop too, and it's now in squadrons in their air force. And good grief- they're now putting together... allegedly... nuclear artillery rockets.
My conclusion? I think there's enough here to indicate the Iranians are really working on a stealth fighter. I mean, we've (the US) shown off enough of how it's done. China hack-stole a bunch of the F-35 documentation. So the documentation is out there. So Iran chose to vary their design a bunch, unlike China and Russia, whose stealth designs very closely resemble our own. We'll have to see how this unfolds.
My bet? I think they'll develop it and develop it, then drop it because it's too hard and expensive. But they'll do it with a cover statement that their forces are already strong enough, and the enemy is shaking in its boots at their F-5s, F-4s and F-15s (like in 1991 when Saddam Hussein announced to Iraq he'd beaten us and the coalition had retreated). And moreover, someone's going to tell them that most 4th gen fighters have radars that stealth can't hide from anymore, anyway.
I mean, who are they going to use it against? Saudi Arabia? SA has the F-15S with its stealth-detecting AESA RADAR. Maybe Israel? Israel is the World's Master of electronic warfare, and stealth is just a 5-minute challenge to them (You wanna beat their jets can't detect stealth ? You'd lose that one.). Have you read about Iran's air combat against Iraq? It reads like a fist fight between a couple elementary school-age kids on the playground. Sloppy, ineffective, and even funny at times.
Look, Iran is one of the World's oldest nations. They have an enormous pride that's the result of millenia of build up. Persia once ruled the East. And now the known World- much bigger with the Internet and technology- has turned against them. What do we expect them to do? Propagande war of course. Will they eventually fight? Well, it will be more martyrdom than fight, but blood is often the currency of pride. Sparing an effective nuclear strike- an evil that will turn the World against them like a school of Sharks on a solitary Sea Lion- Iran would be beaten by anyone they claim to have cause to go against. The US. Israel. France.
OK, I just threw France in for a giggle. But we need to protect France, too- I have an Uncle buried there.

Check out the next, soon-to-be-posted article when I discuss the morality of nuclear weapons.

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