The problem is Iran and Syria routinely over exaggerate their capabilities and then look a little silly. Look how much Syria and Israel spend on defense, Syrian capabilities are hopelessly outmoded.

Its the “flying arjun jet” 🙂

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=18667&sectionid=351020101

Iran to start jet fighter production
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:04:58
Iranian made fighter, Azarakhsh.
Iran’s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics has described the test flight of the country’s second homemade fighter jet as successful.

Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the fighter jet, Azarakhsh, would reach industrial production and join the country’s air force soon.

Azarakhsh, which has been designed and built by Defense Ministry and Hesa Airplane Manufacturing industries’ experts, conducted a successful test flight on Sunday in the central city of Isfahan, where it was built.

” The second generation of the homemade fighter jet will be ready for test flight in the not-so-distant future,” the minister announced, adding that a national helicopter, designed by Iran’s Defense Ministry would also be tested soon.

Najjar praised Iran’s aviation achievements, underlining the country’s self-sufficiency in designing and manufacturing different missiles and their components.

According to Najjar, Iran’s Defense Ministry, is currently capable of repairing military fighters and passenger planes including Airbus 747.

“Many regional countries bring their airplanes and helicopters for repair to Iran.”

Regarding the US decision to demolish F-14 Tomcat fighter jets to prevent the sale of its spare parts to Iran, Najjar noted that the country does not need to purchase F-14 spare parts from the US since ‘we can make the spare parts at home’.

Tts got ridiculous.

We just bought our first home, it cost us nearly half a million quid for a 2 bed flat , its not even in central London.

An active RF MAW like that employed on Eurofighter is probably the single dumbest idea ever put on a jet that is intended to go in harm’s way. Nothing screams “Here I am, come kill me!” like a radiating source that can be detected out to the horizon.

An electrically quiet airframe with modern processors has the capability to detect, classify and pinpoint SAM and AI radar out to the horizon (this is how F-22 racks up kills using ALR-94). Staring IR detectors can detect a missile plume at great distance, even if it only fills a single pixel in the detector array. The choice, of course, depends upon who is performing the design trade study. Some engineers are better at it than others.

Hmm, depends on what environment and scenario you are intending to operate the EF2000. I would suggest that its actually quite beneficial in the modern battlefield and the current threat scenarios. I think “the single dumbest idea” is quite harsh no?