Remember that "fifth generation" fighter jet they displayed some years ago?
Posted on 07/18/2023 7:38:10 PM PDT by algore
Iran's Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Coordinating Deputy of the Islamic Republic's Army (and former Commander of the Navy), alongside Imam Khomeini University of Marine Sciences and Technologies (RA), has unveiled what it is calling the "first product of the quantum processing algorithm.
Essentially, a newly-designed quantum computing board that is apparently already being used by the Iranian Military to "counter navigation deception in detecting surface vessels using the quantum algorithms." And with the hardware showcased as part of a photo-op, it didn't take long for someone to notice that the hardware being shown is an off-the-shelf ARM-based FPGA SoC development board (ZedBoard) built by the US-based Digilent.
In fact, you can see the ZedBoard branding in close-up shots of the "quantum" computing product, so it looks like there was no real effort to make what was being shown look different from the off-the-shelf product. Perhaps it was chosen because the radial circuitry pattern looks futuristic.
US Department of State advisor on Iran Gabriel Noronha posted to social media that the "quantum processor" is a widely available development board. "You too can get this 'quantum processor' for the low price of $589 on Amazon", he wrote.
with 256GB of storage, 512MB of DDR3 RAM, and a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, it's hardly the spec you'd consider ready for quantum computing. The official product overview states its intended usage is "applications [that] include video processing, motor control, software acceleration, Linux/Android/RTOS development, embedded ARM processing, general Zynq-7000 AP SoC prototyping."
And not, detecting vessels using quantum algorithms.
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at least these guys have some talent— and are honest about it
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Remember that "fifth generation" fighter jet they displayed some years ago?
What can be the psychology of people like that?
Well, at least they rotated it 90° before taking the photo.
Was there more than one ever actually produced?
Did any of them actually fly?
Doubtful. Notice that the frontal area of the air intake for the engine isn't much larger than the area of the pilot's hand.
In the original story — which appeared back in February 2013 — there was a picture of the aircraft's control panel, on which was included what appeared to be an Alpine car stereo system, along with a few other obviously non-aviation-relevant devices.
Patriotic and determined to safeguard their civilization.
By showcasing to the world "defense technology" that's obviously fake? Could be a psyop, I guess.
[Alpine car stereo system]
Yeah, but some really cool 8-tracks could help the pilot during a long mission sortie.
Blastin’ some Neil Diamond ‘n’ stuff
[I think they’ve gotta go with Cat Stevens.]
Oh.....Yusuf Islam......:)
I used one of these Zedboards something like 8 years ago at Intel to emulate the new ServerEngines management engine CPU. (It acted just like the specs they provided, and let the devs get a headstart on porting code to the chip since ServerEngines was late).
So, not new, not state of the art, and for DAMNED sure not quantum.
“Notice that the frontal area of the air intake for the engine isn’t much larger than the area of the pilot’s hand.”
Here’s some trivia: the air going through the turbines and combustion chambers in a jet engine is never travelling at supersonic speed, even if the plane is flying supersonically.
That fact relates to a small (or adjustably small) intake on an engine for a supersonic plane.
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