I hate to say it , but I like it. As others said, reminds me of an x-36, bird of prey, with some German "peoples fighter" thrown in too.
I'm not a fan of canard designs though, to me would look better with a tail far back like on the F-35. But I do like the x-36 like approach to canards.
The cockpit looks bare bones like a homebuilt or sailplane. I guess I like the tech mixed with simplicity.
Looks very small. Maybe it has no radar as some have observed here, or maybe its integrated into the rest of the airframe somewhere?
I really like the concept here. It goes against the ever spiraling cost of fighter production. If it has any kind of success in whatever role it is intended for. Would like the West to build something simpler and lower cost like this.
If it is stealthy and has no radar it might be very difficult to detect. Maybe in the fighter role would be used that way?
Seriously, Iran is always trying to find the cheapest solution, hence the low cost Wig and the speedboats. But in whatever tactic they use and it works against a carrier or other ship, it would be a success to the Iranians. This could be the aircraft equivalent of that approach.
In wartime there are examples of such unexpected or unusual tactics working.
As a side observation: did they have to find the largest Iranian in the crowd to pose as the "pilot" and squeeze the guy in there? Couldn't they have found someone shorter like Ahmadinejad himself to sit in there?
Maybe the actual "pilot" is a capture Alien, hence the small cockpit area.
