Yeah, me too. I really hope that those monstrous machines are not capable of night flight.
Posted on 05/14/2006 9:39:08 PM PDT by familyop
Iran annually produces 50 ultralight aircraft. Since beginning production, Saba Airline Co. has produced 12 ultralight aircraft, noted an official at the production plant located in Gonabad Airport. The domestically made aircraft have flown about 2,500 kilometers between the northeastern Iranian cities, the official maintained.
Each ultralight aircraft built in Gonabad is priced between Rls.400 mln and Rls.1 bln, depending on the specifications and applications. Some obvious applications of ultralight aircraft will be for sport flying, short-haul freight, fire-fighting, crop-dusting, rescue operations, and city taxi/tourist/police flights. They are also used for military purposes particularly, in unmanned surveillance (in drone form).
Its low sound, lightness of construction, slowness and short take-off capability give it enormous potential in both rural and urban applications and its stability in dangerous terrain give it wide potential uses both in civilian and military context.
What are the odds Iran will try to launch a nuke on an ultralight?
What are the odds, they will blow themselves up in the attempt?
What are the odds, if they blow themselves up in the attempt, they will try again?
One word: Raptor
Now that's a stereotype.
Really?
Cool.
Nuke them.
Well, I guess it's pretty much over then. The F-22's don't stand a chance.
........Iran annually produces 50 ultralight aircraft. Since beginning production, Saba Airline Co. has produced 12 ultralight aircraft................
OK, I give up.. Who produces the other 38???
Or has the writer annualized the Saba production to date???
My next question! Who cares?????????????????????????????
In poor and rural areas, ultralights are very valuable. There is quite a bit of interest in them for military work since they act as very cheap recon platforms. Thailand has been throwing around the idea of using them for recon in the southern part of the country since they can get to trouble spots very fast. Just because something does not fit western ideas of military equipment does not mean it is not valuable.
Early nukes were what - 5+tons each? A bit too heavy load for the ultralight. Besides, ultralights are very vulnerable.
I couldn't resist posting it with mentions of "ultralight aircraft" and "Gonabad Airport." Those things crashed often when they were popular with hobbyists here in the States--real powerline snaggers. ...all gonabad.
yes 8900 lbs for little boy and 10300 lbs for fat man.
But then the suitcase nukes were rumored to only weight 51 lbs. And I don't expect Iran to use the same caution in constructing a bomb as we did. I doubt they could build a suitcase bomb, but I bet they could build a lightweight bomb. Especially if they didn't care how many of their own they killed with radiation in the process.
We're all gonna die!!!
Soon they will produce nothing..
Easy targets.
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