Iran unveils long-range bombing drone

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Oh great. Now we got that to lookout for too.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/22/iran.drone.unveiled/index.html?hpt=T2
 
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Their modern innovations mimic the technology of the Germans 70 years ago.

NickH said:
Dang their modern technology. We'd better invade before they kill us all.
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Who cares how modern it is, if it can put bombs on target than it works. With that said, the last thing our country needs is a war with Iran.
 
Ackmadinnerjacket built a great scale RC airplane. Nice Park Flyer, bro.
 
Guess who got to have the first flight!
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Estimating the wing size on this thing (between 24ft² & 32ft²), I figure it has a weight between 4,000 & 4,800 lbs. I thought that bomb underneath looked kind big for this thing. But, it turns out that it's almost the same size as the V-1: 4,750 lbs on an 18 ft wingspan, with a 1,870 lb warhead.
 
jtrain609 said:
A V1? A weapon with the potency of the Detroit Lions?

They've gotta be able to do better than this.
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I saw the story about the missle this morning and thought immediately of the V1. Your comments are a little out of line in that I don't think they convey the proper amount of respect for the V1 and V2 from the 1940's. Basically, these were kind of amazing weapons when you think about it. Had Hitler waited - the jets he developed, plus the vengence weapons (V1 and V2) it may have been a completely different ball game. Still, they wouldn't have had the mineral resources the US did (namely oil - which drove much strategery in WW2) but still - the engineering feats were pretty impressive. Do you think Hurricanes and Spitfires could have done much against the Me262 en masse?

BTW, 70 years ago last Friday was the anniversary of Churchill's "Never before have so many owed so much to so few" speech after the Battle of Britain.
 
Trev0079 said:
The range on it is only 680 miles. Not very impressive if you ask me.
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Huh... Tehran to Tel Aviv is 977 mi. Where'd you see 680 mi.?

Edit: Hurp-Durp ... from the Western Azarbaijan province of Iran it's more like 690 mi.
 
Trev0079 said:
The range on it is only 680 miles. Not very impressive if you ask me.
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The bigger question is always what is the accuracy. I took a class on weapons, specifically nuclear in college and we went over a lot of the potential delivery systems that other country's have, and to say the least it's abysmal. Especially the countries that have soviet derived stuff that the soviets never really helped them with.

This obviously isn't a missile, but I'd still be willing to bet they really suck at flying it and delivering any kind of payload on target. I'd be willing to bet it'd become a fireball before it could pose much threat as well.

I think at the time N. Korea had just tested some missile but when we looked at it, the accuracy was something like 150 miles at it's max range. That's like aiming for Chicago and hitting Milwaukee... or a corn field. Or in the case of the news headlines that read something like "N. Korea test fires missile capable of reaching Hawaii" but what they didn't say that there was a snowball's chance in hell of it hitting Hawaii even if they tried.
 
Minuteman said:
Huh... Tehran to Tel Aviv is 977 mi. Where'd you see 680 mi.?

Edit: Hurp-Durp ... from the Western Azarbaijan province of Iran it's more like 690 mi.
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There is no way their new "state of the art" bomb dropping device can't make it to Isreal. We all know that is on the top of Iran's priority list. I don't see why they would make their "ambassador of death" not be able to reach the people who they despise so much.
 
You got to hand it to 'em... at least their new target drone....er...uh.....UAS.....has a cool name: "Ambassador of Death" - no PC, beating around the bush about that.
 
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