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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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Last I heard is all our F18 pilots are pooping their pants!
Isn't this sort of plane something fly swatters were invented for?
Wing in Ground Effect... or WIGs ... of this size... have a very small weapons payload. A couple hundred pounds of small caliber ammo. GREAT for coastal patrol against civilian targets. Fast, fuel efficient and relatively cheap. Completely worthless against a warship.
All it takes is one anti-ship missile or some RPGs. payload does not need to be a lot. Send 30 of these guys out and they will do some damage against a warship.
The only way these things will avoid radar is by staying below the horizon. Of course U.S. CBGs have AWACS aircraft that can look down and direct a shoot down if required. Smaller combatants would have to depend on CWIS, assuming they can hit something flying that slow. In WW2 the German battleship Bismark had troubles hitting British Swordfish torpedo biplanes because their AA gun control system wasn't designed to track anything flying at 95 miles per hour.
One word:
MartyrCopter.
Wow!!! this looks like Irans version of NASCAR.... Get some sponsors on those suckers and let em RACE!!!
I am surprised that tiny single engine can lift that large plane off the water or do suppose it can just land in the water.
It probably can carry a large payload too.
If I was Ameana-jihad....I don't think I would have let this out.....LMAO
SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....i keel you..........
OK Iran you guys have showed your cards and they are not good.
If their atomic plan is advanced as this we are in big big trouble.
Let me go grab my C-130 gun ship real quick
That photo looks like IRANS version of nascar.... Get some sponsors and let em RACE!!! HOW bout THE BERKA BARN.
Red 5, Red 5, initiate radar avoidance on my mark......3.....2......1...... HANDS IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES..... (They are using the latest in Peek-A-Boo technology).
It seems like these boats could be very effective when used Kamakazi style and from looking at it's simple technology it should not take much to make it remote control operated. If used like that in the strait of Hormoz against feul tankers we will be buying gas here at $20 a gallon!!
It is very easy to photoshop one plane into 12 ... I can make a copy of 100000 IAF F-15' s , but it doesn't mean that I have that many planes . They are lying just like the missile test where they showed it was a complete success and multiplied it times 5 . The real photo and video found out that only 3 out of four launched , meaning that out of a thousand missiles around 250 will get stuck and may blow up in the launcher.
'saying the flying boat looked like something anyone could buy in kit form from mechanical magazine ads.'
lol Yeah, they do, but mostly wood constructions flying low ARE undetectable. We'll see who's laughing when they light up a .50 caliber on one of these things.