Posted on 03/19/2011 8:38:55 AM PDT by darkwing104
Despite the setbacks with its ambitious nuclear weapon program, Iran unveiled an unmanned flying saucer at a strategic technologies exhibition. The story was first reported by the Fars News Agency. The Zohal (Saturn) was publicly introduced at the exhibition that was attended by Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
As reported in the Daily Mail the capability of the Flying Saucer that It is equipped with autopilot, image stabilizer and GPS and has a separate system for aerial recording with full HD quality. Fars reported that The device belonging to the new generation of vertical flyers is designed for aerial photography.
The saucer is capable of operating outdoors and indoors.
The craft was designed and developed jointly by Farnas Aerospace Company and Iranian Aviation and Space Industries Association. The size and capability of the craft is unknown but most likely perform the role of a short range UAV. The devices will be controlled and monitored by a separate portable unit.
Such a device is probably a copy of the German designed Microdrone. The German manufactured quadrotor drone is an electric powered four blade UAV that can operated indoors and outdoors.
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You haven't changed my mind. If it's such an advantageous shape how come we don't see modern planes with that design?
The Flying Wing concept goes back to 1907 and survives as the B-2 stealth bomber and several other modern jet aircraft. It looks a lot more like Arnold's historic UFOs too.
I said it had one advantage, a short takeoff.
As for why the design didn't evolve with the jet age, I can just imagine what such a craft would do if it lost one engine. Not much room for the loss of symmetry, and I do remember that it was necessary to put, at least the prop engines, at the edge, for some forgotten reason.
The craft is obviously held up and powered by thought waves. If you think hard enough that you see it flying you probably will. Then the illusionator takes over and... well here it gets technical but it has to do with electro-crockery propulsion systems.
Most likely a Tesla design
Or Tupperware. Tesla actually did something instead of photo-chopping.
As for your history of "saucer", it's pretty much as I remember the story.
I did pull up the clip of the radio news report of Roswell, six weeks or so after the Arnold "close encounter", and the report used both "flying disk" and "missile" for the recovered object.
It's a lovely lampshade!
The Russians experimented with a circular battlship design in the 19th century. It was a complete failure; the worst aspect of the design was that off-axis recoil from the ship's guns set the whole thing spinning. I can't imagine that would be any better on a flying gunship than a floating one.
“off-axis recoil from the ship’s guns set the whole thing spinning”
Ah, that’s why the aliens use recoil-less death rays. Explains a lot!
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