- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
The Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by a quarter point as it aims to fight stubbornly high inflation while steâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8i
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
Two adults have been injured in a shooting at a Denver high school, police say cnn.it/3LDJynD
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
The Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the Trump hush money case will not meet today, a sourceâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…06
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
DOJ convinces federal judge that former President Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime or fraud in claâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ut
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan, according to the United States Geological Survey cnn.it/400yKUS
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
Median US home prices fell in February, ending a record streak of 131 consecutive months of year-over-year increases cnn.it/3FENiBt
- @cnnbrk
- Followers: 64,155,502
Saudi Arabia has released US-Saudi dual national Saad Ibrahim Almadi from prison, more than a year after he was arrâ€twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ig
CNN POLITICS ON FACEBOOK » | CNN POLITICS ON TWITTER »
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.
On Twitter
On Twitter
@cnnbrk on Twitter
These are just variants of the ancient Ekranoplan flying boats built by the old Soviet Union. The ones in the video are tiny compared to what the Russians built in the 1950's and 1960's.
These little simple things are based on a design that is decades old and it didn't really catch on then and it probably won't now. They do look like a heck of a lot of fun to play with.
Radar evadting in 2010, who is kidding whom?
come on that is the easyest thing to destroy.Lets get our guns,lightsabers,legendary swords and our magical powers and get reed of them
They should make RC kits out of these and sell them online to finance their nuclear effort. Now there's a real idea.
A couple of P38 Lightening or P51 Mustang will take them down. No need to waste tax payer's money with F-22s.
Let's welcome Iran's air force to WW2 standard.
i think is bad thing killing us people in september 2001 in new york and killing cia nice people most intelligence from britain . i find in firma mc donald in hoheluftchaussee 185 in hamburg from moslim from iran and jews from israel a lot about terror for the next time against usa will be done . we must stop them at first not let them go . must stop moslim somen and not moslim from israel they are us enemy . i like the freedom . james is nice man
Say what you will. I want one.
It's like we're going up against a villlian from one the 1960s James Bond movies. I'm sure he'll end up revealing his plan to destroy the world with a giant Death Ray hidden somewhere in the desert.
Will these boat-planes be available by Christmas time...I bet these vehicle thingys should do well on snow...
Does anyone know what these aircraft are made of ? If you can't see them on radar, they could easily sneek up on unsuspecting US Naval ships and BOOM.....
I question the news report. Really, this has to be some hoax and a pic from some ww1 archive. There is no way in hell that with all the engineering might of a future super power has the gonads to call this part of the Iran Navy.... By the way I just read they are concealing a nuclear development lab in the form of an Easy Bake Oven... Darn smart if you axe me....
I wonder if Walmart will be selling them...Are they made by Tyco...
I can see situations where vehicles like these could be very useful. I think the United States Coast Guard would love to have a fleet of them for running down drug smugglers. Very innovative.
How many Pepsi points do I need to get one...
Our three-masted frigates stand no chance against these flying boats.
Do they come various colors...