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Iran unveils squadrons of flying boats
Iran's Defense Ministry released photos of what it says are its new radar-evading flying boats, the Bavar 2.
Iran unveiled three squadrons of new flying boats on Tuesday, Iranian news agencies reported.
The craft, dubbed the Bavar 2, is armed with a machine gun and carries surveillance cameras, according to a report from the Iranian Student News Agency.
"Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the few countries which managed to design, build and use flying boats in a short time," said Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who oversaw the delivering of the aircraft at the Bandar Abbas naval facility on the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.
The delivery comes as Iran celebrates its Week of Sacred Defense, which commemorates its eight-year-long resistance to the 1980 Iraqi invasion, according to the Fars News Agency.
The flying boats look like one Iran used during Persian Gulf war games in April 2006. Media reports from the time include a video of a flying boat taking off.
After those 2006 reports, bloggers poked fun at Iran’s so-called stealth technology, saying the flying boat looked like something anyone could buy in kit form from mechanical magazine ads.
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Maybe they would have posed a small threat back in 1942. Iran is a joke...
Looks very similar to our Cobra and Stealth technology...lol...This country really is a joke...I could shoot these things down with a bb gun. Bet the engines run very effectively when the dust and sand from the desert gets into them,. Wonder if they could strap a nuke to them????
One 50 caliber bullet to that tiny engine sitting above the pilot should do the trick.
lmfaoooooooo
It is time for Israel to counter this serious threat by training and equipping fiercely costumed Spider Monkeys in Kaiser helmets to ride German Shepherds up and down their border.
Out standing. Iran just made a fleet of flying boat drones for the US Navy to use for target practice.
The flying nuns were more powerful than these boats...he he he
Hastening their path to Allah.
That's it man, game over man, game over! What the f*** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
look how fast these cowards delte my messages.
Iran doesn't realize how stupid they look putting these air boats out there claiming they can evade radar. They do not even have the proper configuration to aid in evading radar and of course it is a prop plane that has machine guns so it has a much lower flight ceiling and must get close to it's target to fire at it with machine guns. Oh the US is shaking in it's boots now.
look how fast these cowards delte my messages.
you cna not talk ot these pigs waste of time.
Mehdi, are they deleting your comments, really? I can still read at least 5 entries for you and I must say that are damn entertaining! Please don't take us Yanks too seriously, we're just not scared anymore. So, if ya got something, bring it! We've got problems to solve.
You could take that thing down with a handgun.
I want one! They are cool... Iran should be selling those, rather than making them into flying targets.
quick we need a destraction poist about Iran, ignore all the millions of other problems you have.