Iran: Stealth 'Flying Boat' Successfully Tested (Update, Pic Included)

Fox News ^ | April 04, 2006 | FOX NEWS

[Shermy]

Germany's prepared:

[SENTINEL]

That's a "WIG" or "wing in ground effect" craft. They are easy to build...I think they did it once on Junkyard wars.

I can assure you, that engine and propeller especially do not have stealth abilities.

That prop is laughable...It's like sending out search beacon to a radar...Stealth, my a$$.

[RS]

Interesting ... here's a page on them -

http://www.se-technology.com/wig/index.php

[digger48]

LOL!

[Robe]

Good stuff here on the technology...

GOOGLE

[technomage]

It appears that the government of Iran is attempting to intimidate the world with their amazingly advanced technology.

First an underwater 'missile' that can travel at speeds in excess of 200 mph.

Next was the stealth missile with multiple warheads capabilities.

Now a stealth flying boat.

What next, a transporter? An operational force field?

[Arkinsaw]

Woulda been a little more stealthy to go UNDERWATER instead. 30 seconds after this clip, they did.

[Thermalseeker]

If that thing can evade radar, then my Lanciar can outrun an F-16.

Yeah, the crude motor mount alone would look like a 747 on radar, especially the high gain phase array stuff the military uses. The rest of this contraption is probably plywood. I doubt these guys have ever heard of composites. Seems like the Ruskies have been busy cleaning out the closet lately......

[armchairadmiral]

I see the Iranian scientific community has received their latest super secret translation from their spy's in America... the complete Tom Swift series, this was "Tom Swift and his Flying Boat". I can't wait to see what they "invent" next!

[Robe]

Yup, a fast torpedo that can't maneuver, and a 1957 design ground effect toy, I shivering

[docbnj]

If radar can pick up small buoys, it can detect this 'plane.

I would not laugh too much about it, though. One torpedo can sink a large ship. Best to tell the pilot that he is invisible (to radar), and let him go on a suicide mission. If the Iranians have enough of these contraptions, a few will get through.

I very much worry about a war with Iran, because it will unite the Iranians, even those who otherwise oppose the mullahs. Iranians are not like the Arabs. They are not klutzes. If they wanted, they could sweep west through Iraq, and right straight to the Mediterranean Sea.

It may be the mullah strategy to get us into war with them, in order that they may hold onto their power.

[peyton randolph]

What next, a transporter? An operational force field?

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My bet is the Iranians invent quasi-virgin camels.

[CountryBumpkin]

Well, having the pilot way down there in the sealed cockpit just ruins the intimidation factor. It would be much better effect to move the pilot up into a lawn chair bolted to the front of that high-tech lawnmower engine with three or four machine screws. So I wonder if the engine was sourced from Temcumseh, Briggs & Stratton, or Kohler? Oh, by the way, great photoshop work by Iran to get rid of the strings holding the parachute just out of view above. :->

[Redleg Duke]

Stealth my butt! With that engine sitting up there, it has the radar cross section of a B-52!

[itsamelman]

[Mannaggia l'America]

[Vermonter]

When idiots take up flying

[Robe]

IRAN ANNONCES MANNED SPACE FLIGHT.....TARGET MOON !!!!!

[Bender]

Yup, a large wave will swamp the thing. The Sov vehicles were BIG and flew at about a hundred or so meters.

The max ceiling (hard to call it that in this context, but there ya go) is about one half of the wingspan.

This thing is too small to do a lot, but as a suicide vehicle it may work fine. One aircraft, one shot, one kill....of the Iranian pilot...

[mitchbert]

Here also. I thought a bit better with good pics of existing craft.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0130.shtml

Thanks.