Iranian Twin-tailed F-5 Evolution

[Chris707]

It's probably been mentioned before, but came across this pic:

http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20070803/gholi...03001548220.jpg

showing the Iranian "Lightning" which looks to be a remanufactured Tiger II or Freedom Fighter with twin tails; it'll be interesting to see what other changes have been made.

That leads to a WIF-idea: an F-20 fuselage with a higher-mounted Hornet-derived wing, intakes, and tails - yeah, I know that would produce a Super Bug with even _less_ room for  fuel ;-)


Chris
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[Rafael]

.......but worth the fun of trying it!!!

Rafa

[rickshaw]

Iran begins mass production of Saeghe fighter.

[kitbasher]

That leads to a WIF-idea: an F-20 fuselage with a higher-mounted Hornet-derived wing, intakes, and tails - yeah, I know that would produce a Super Bug with even _less_ room for  fuel ;-)

Chris
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And an F-20 with no room for main undercarriage!

[perttime]

That leads to a WIF-idea: an F-20 fuselage with a higher-mounted Hornet-derived wing, intakes, and tails - yeah, I know that would produce a Super Bug with even _less_ room for  fuel ;-)

And an F-20 with no room for main undercarriage!

I recall the evolution from F-5 to YF-17 included a high wing F-5 ('ish) concept.

edit: Wikipedia has  decent looking 3 view line drawing for Saeqeh, alternatively spelt Sa'eqeh; Saegheh, or Saeqeh-80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Saeqeh#mediaviewer/File:Saeqeh.svg
(at least SVG and PNG files offered)

[Scooterman]

You could go F-20 all the way back to rear fuselage area, deleting the splitter plates on the intakes, add F-5 engines, and scratch the not so vertical tails. 
Simples!!

[kerick]

They spent so much time and trouble to copy a 50 year old design.