M163 anti-aircraft gun system
Posted on 08/22/2010 5:35:01 AM PDT by nuconvert
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled on Sunday a new long-range drone, dubbed Karar, which reportedly can bomb targets at high speed, state television reported.
Television footage showed the president applauding as a blue cloth which had been covering the drone was pulled back to reveal a short aircraft painted in military-green with the words "Bomber jet" written on its side.
Images were then broadcast on television showing the aircraft flying.
"This jet, before it heralds death for enemies, is the messenger of salvation and dignity for humanity," Ahmadinejad said in his speech marking the unveiling of the drone in a hall at Tehran's Malek Ashtar university.
The unveiling of the aircraft comes as Iran marks on Sunday its annual Defence Industry Day.
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M163 anti-aircraft gun system
Looks like up around Camp Roberts.
“Just saw the bombber drone on FoxNews. It looks a lot like a V-1. “
LoL it does doesn’t it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_(flying_bomb)
Looks likes it’s operating range is a bit less then the V-1’s too lol! Does this put them about 60-70 years behind us?
The difference between a bomber and a cruise missile is that the bomber is supposed to come back for re-use. Since it won’t even make it part of the way to it’s target, I don’t think it can be classified as either a cruise missile or as a bomber. New designation “target drone”!
thanks nuconvert. additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2575389/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2575393/posts
Moer like one of Northrop’s target drones, the Snark was the firt intercontinential ballistic missile and quit a bit larger than this toy.
The Snark was not a ballistic missile. It was a Ground-Lauched Cruise Missile (GLCM).
Don’t know if you can access this site but:
http://acs.web.northgrum.com/leading_edge/data/2003/tle_0930.pdf
See page 8.
Kinda both right.
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