Posted on 06/19/2002 3:27:02 PM PDT by knighthawk
Iran is planning to export unmanned planes in the future, the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted a Defense Ministry official as saying on Wednesday.
Iran is planning to export unmanned planes in the future, the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted a Defense Ministry official as saying on Wednesday.
Brigadier Hossein Alaei, head of Aviation Industries of Iran's Defense Ministry, stressed the need to develop the designing and production technology for unmanned planes to strengthen Iran's deterrence capability.
Alaei said that the qualitative development of Iran's designing and production technology for unmanned planes, a major program of the Defence Ministry, had been the result of experiences from the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
He said that Iran's technological capabilities for the manufacture of military hardware could match those of the world's leading producers.
I assume they are refering to UAVs here, right?
I am not surprised. In the 70s, we had Iranian student pilots in undergraduate pilot training at Laughlin AFB, TX. In 8 years, I am not sure if they ever had one who could actually fly an aircraft right. If these aircraft are unmanned, maybe there is a reason for it.
I heard the same thing, and Sandflea in post 10 may also be right. Even if the aircraft were in flying shape, those nerds can't fly them to save their behinds. That is why, before the Gulf war, I said the Iraqi Air Force will be no factor in this war, and they were not. I figured they could not fly them any better than the Iranians.
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