Only for meteorological research... ;o)
Posted on 08/22/2010 7:29:52 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built long-range unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.
Speaking to a group of officials, Ahmadinejad said, "The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship."
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has a main message of peace and friendship ............................. Like many other weapons I am sure. The design looks more like PRK and Chinese influenced. Meanwhile back at the Whiskey Hotel, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Hope Israel has the fortitude to handle this because Obama is busy playing golf today. As usual nut job’s speech is full of stunning insane contradictions. The drone is an “ambassador of death” yet has a message of “friendship and peace.” WTF?
Only for meteorological research... ;o)
“The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship.”
Hilarious
Those V-1 Buzz Bombs were drones too.
That thing looks like a 1950’s target drone.
Hey, Obama! Is this one of those great technolgical leaps that muslims have made over the centuries?
Ignorant turd.
And here is yor Visa.
Cheers!
This maniac would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
For the last four Presidents, we have had increasingly incompetent, self-absorbed boobs, clueless clowns and a dangerous subversive.
While Obama is making overtures to the Islamic World, people like this maniac are getting more and more sophisticated modern weaponry to advance a stone age cult on a worldwide basis.
TRULY Incredible!!!
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Oh, another one, thanks OldDeckHand.
It looks pretty small. 4 meters?
I doubt it could carry much payload; probably not a nuke of the Korean design -— too big.
It could be used for surveillance, maybe small conventional ordnance, or a dirty bomb. But that’s assuming that it actually flies, has self-navigation capability, and some kind of significant range — and give or take stealth (which it apparently lacks).
Stealth is not that critical for cruise missles. You can fly absurdly low -— 2-3 meters off the ground -— with a drone -— risk you would never take in a manned plane.
Sound and eye visibility are much more important.
A nice, quiet jet engine, something commercial and cheap.
WMDs are also unlikely — payload size is comprable to a nuke for any meaningful attack.
You just make 10,000 of them, super cheap, and let them swarm.
Guess I wasn’t too clear. It’s a German WW-II V-1 Buzz Bomb. Compare the pics.
A modern cruise missle is not all that different that a V-1.
A turbine replaces the pulse jet —— and GPS aids navigation.
What Iran lacks is access to hardened GPS, which is what makes modern cruise missles so deadly (along with terrain info). It probably would try to “tag along” with USA commercial GPS, which is easily turned off or jammed.
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