DTN News - IRAN DEFENSE NEWS: Iran Unveils Its Very Own Stealth Fighter

DTN News - IRAN DEFENSE NEWS: Iran Unveils Its Very Own Stealth Fighter

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 4, 2013: Iran has unveiled its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar.

Iran claims to have produced a stealth fighter, proof of the country's will to "conquer scientific peaks", according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a ceremony broadcast on state TV that building the Qaher F-313, or Dominant F-313, shows Iran's will to "conquer scientific peaks."

The Qaher is one of several aircraft designs the Iranian military has rolled out since 2007. 

Tehran has repeatedly claimed to have developed advanced military technologies in recent years, but its claims cannot be independently verified because the country does not release technical details of its arsenals.

The Islamic republic launched a self-sufficient military program in the 1980s to compensate for a Western weapons embargo that banned export of military technology and equipment to Iran. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles, torpedoes, drones and fighter planes.

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