I think one of the notable elements is how cartoonishly small it is for a modern military jet aircraft. At 10 meters it is almost 9.5 meters shorter top to tail than an F—15, and still 4.5 meters shorter than the F-5, a plane generally seen as smaller than most in its class.

This plane is ironically extremely similar to one of the paper concept planes dreamed up by the American Air Force “reformers” which was an ultra cheap and bare bones aircraft armed with just a 30mm cannon to strafe ground targets. The Skorpion was intended to be armed with either a 25mm or 30mm cannon. However unlike the American reformers cincept this project was intended to be stealth and fly by wire. The stealth requirement was dropped sometime before the cancellation of the project however.