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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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Canoes with wings!
I'm pretty sure we used something more advanced than this during WWII... Its called the PBY Cattalina, check it out
I made those planes with my Mattel Vacu-Form toy in the mid 1960's
hmmm.. i wonder what the top speed on these little buggers is... my guess would be somewhere in the 200 knot range... faster than any of our helicopters? too slow for any of our jets (except the Harrier).... though i must admit, they do look like something of a Star Wars Clone Wars episode.. Is that you flying that thing Anikan?
Wooh, International community take note, Iran has obtained 1920s technology!
Damn those rogue Russian scientists irresponsibly spreading this technical information, do they know what they have done?!
The joke is on us , we spend 1.6 TRILLION on ( DEFENCE ? ) per year to run the world , and we have showen
Iran a new type of weapon . DU . And a good way to deliver it.
b–HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They're joking, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I suppose if I put a thick coat of wax on my car (for bullet-proofing), and mount a cap-gun in front of the sunroof, I would have the Iranian version of a tank.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd.
All that oil money and they come up with this??? it looks like they got the idea from a 1960 popular science magazine!!! LOL!
I seriously want one of these!!!!
Anybody got a flyswatter?
The first seaplane was flown in 1910. Iran's military slaps a gun on it a hundred years later and they think they've revolutionized warfare. This is just posturing by an Iranian regime that's losing legitimacy while trying to look powerful to the rest of the world.
look more like floating planes to me
Just a bunch of rag head hillbillies and their wind up aeroplanes. Almost as bad as their snaggletooth president
Wow. Flying boats in a desert region. What's next?
Fear these boat planes they will shoot down our 800 mph stealth bombers!!!!!!!!!!!