April 05, 2006
Iran Goes Disney With Stealth MIRV Platform, Underwater Missles, And - Now A 'Flying Boat'?
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Captain Ed, we learn that the imagination continues to run wild in the Iranian mullahcracy - with (
in addition to their religious dogma) the Iranians having announced successful tests, unverified by outside sources, of a stealth MIRV platform, a sonar-evading underwater missile that travels so fast that the cavitation alone would make it easily identified, and now a
stealth 'flying boat', which they insist cannot be detected by radar.
Apparently, the Revolutionary Guards, the elite branch of Iran's military, have been holding their maneuvers -- code-named the "Great Prophet" - since Friday, touting what they call domestically built technological advances in their armed forces. If these people weren't so dangerous, they'd be nothing less than comical. It's hard to believe that these people are adults, they're more like children living in a child's world.
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I've been looking at that picture of the Iranian "flying boat" and as best as I can tell it's not a flying boat at all. It's really a Wing In Ground (WIG) Effect craft, hence the description of it flying low off the water. The Russians had a huge experimental version back in the 1980s called the Ekranoplan which was envisioned as an amphibious transport. High speed transportation is what these things are regarded as being best suited to, plus they're only efficient at very large scales. So their "super moden flying boat" has been around since the 1960s and is very sensitive to weather and sea conditions.....i.e. still useless as a weapons platform.
Posted by: Graeme at April 05, 2006 12:41 PM (VOCa6)
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Chitty chitty dirka dirka mohammed jihad bang bang!!!
Posted by: Insomniac at April 05, 2006 02:36 PM (IEpte)
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Yeah, I'll just bet this thing could outrun an FA-18, or perhaps an Apache helicopter. Oh, and thanks to you dumb asses for showing us your Weapons of Massless Destruction(WOMLD). Hahaha!
Posted by: jesusland joe at April 05, 2006 08:50 PM (rUyw4)
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It is funny, isn't it? They've got the equivalent of rocks and sticks against the most awesome killing machine the world has ever seen.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 05, 2006 11:21 PM (0yYS2)
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It's about time to unleash the dogs of war against these fools. I know this, the World will regret letting this scum in Iran develope nuclear weapons. Because they will use them! You liberals better think long and deep about the implications of that. Of course, on the bright side for all you libs, nuclear war will dramatically reduce the human population.
Posted by: jesusland joe at April 06, 2006 05:48 AM (rUyw4)
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You don't talk about Project flying Mullah.
Posted by: Tom at April 06, 2006 10:21 AM (BeTNH)
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