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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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ahhh, the flying boat. the perfect weapon for desert combat....
LMAO!!! You made my day Jack thanks.......
LOL go learn geography first before opening your mouth...
Why would you use a boat in the desert? You are not very bright, are you?
Are they going to fly south for the winter?hahaha. If they are going south try a camel it will be safer
i bet I could throw a rock and knock that thing out of the sky.. What a joke. A complete POS
Please, it is the 'Week of Sacred Defense" in Iran. Show them some respect and lie about how almight and powerful they are, and marvel at their technological brillance.
Please, it is the 'Week of Sacred Defense" in Iran. Show them some respect and lie about how almight and powerful they are, and marvel at their technological brillance.
Bring on the GAU-17
The only radar they've evaded is their own radars. By look of where the engine and prop is on that thing, you can tell it doesn't have a chance in Hell of evading any radar.
They just stuck an engine on top of a fiberglass model and it's going to somehow evade rader? It's like they're making fun of themselves at this point.. They excitedly boasted that "it can go over 100 knots!" .. in other words, slower than your average minivan. I can imagine a squadron of these would just be knocked out of the sky in one fell swoop by an actual fighter jet.
Those things would be as stealthy as the moon. Then the GI Joe toy plane they just tried to pass off and the fake rocket launch as if NORAD could not have seen a rocket going ionto space from iran. sheesh
Either these Iranians are trying to fool their own people, or they are just stark raving stupid.
Still, never underestimate your enemy. They might be making themselves look like fools on purpose.
Looks like the flying monkeys from OZ
Any solder from ANY country iin the world using a standard infantry rifle could knock the engine out on this thing with a single shot, not to mention the pilot sitting there out in the open unprotected and only going 100 kts. would be a sitting duck. I'll bet there was a real face palm moment for some Iranian Navy Admiral thinking to himself "how am I going to make this piece of junk look like a real threat".......
You mean FLYING BOOTS, not boats.
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LOL. Even WWII era naval vessels could easily shoot those down. They wouldn't have a chance against anything more modern.