Posted on 03/22/2011 8:08:54 AM PDT by Michael Barnes
The unmanned flying saucer, named "Zohal", was unveiled in a ceremony attended by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
Zohal, designed and developed jointly by Farnas Aerospace Company and Iranian Aviation and Space Industries Association (IASIA), can be used for various missions, specially for aerial imaging.
The flying machine is equipped with an auto-pilot system, GPS (Global Positioning System) and two separate imaging systems with full HD 10 mega-pixel picture quality and is able to take and send images simultaneously.
Zohal uses a small, portable navigation and monitoring center for transmission of data and images and can fly in both outdoor and indoor spaces.
The second project unveiled in the exhibition was a light sports plane. The plane designed and developed by Dorna Aerospace Company is a full composite sports plane and complies with the Standard Test Method (ASTM).
It is the third ISA-class model introduced to the world and can be used for private flights, aerial patrolling and surveillance.
Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo
picked up from /. this a.m., funny stuff..
getta load of this ;)
Too funny! If the have anything like this, we are DOOOOOOOOOMED!!! Hahahaha!
I don’t doubt that they have some balloons that can loft ground surveillance tech, but they do not have a “flying saucer”.
Don't mess with Zohal!
And to think that people scoffed at me and TOTUS when we said we needed to applaud the Islamic world for their contributions to science and technology.
LOS ANGELES, CA .. 20th Century Fox has filed suit against Iran for copyright violation .. the studio claims that Iran's fictional "new flying saucer" is a copy of the Jupiter II, the fictional space ship used in the popular TV series "Lost in Space," which ran from 1965 to 1968... developing...
This info was released by the Iranian SIT AROUND AND MAKE SH-T UP BUREAU.
Next from Iran ‘THE FLYING CUP!”
So that’s who was flying over Jerusalem back in January of this year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggzl8z9Csho
Haver commented on another thread about it . . .
IF the pic is at all reliable, they may have a typical saucer . . . IF . . . there’s a toroid of mercury in movement around a core etc. etc. etc.
If it’s merely a fan driven hovering sort of copter affair . . . whoop-t-do.
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