what ever happened to IAR-95 ME?

a very interesting indigneous design from IAR of Romania.

The aircraft was being reserached on in the late 80s, design wise the aircraft is a two seater, single tailed, single engined aircraft, resembling very very much like the Chinese Super-7 and F-20. The aircraft has 4 pylons on the wings and wingtip rails.

IAR-95 ME technical data

Length: 16.0M (52 feet 5.75 inches)
Wing Spam: 9.3M (30 ft, 6 inches)
Height: 5.45 m (17 feet 10.5inches)
Wing Area: 27.9 m^2 (300 sq ft)
Empty weight: 7880 kg (17,372 lb)
Max take off weight: 15200 kg (33,510 lb)
Max Weapons Load: 3200 kg (7,055 lb)
Powerplant: one Tumanskii R-29-300 Turbojet rated at 122kN (27,420 lb) with after burner

(interestingly they were going for a Rolls Royce Spey earlier)