Iran unveils first bomber drone

[Elmore Furth]

Source: BBC

Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestically built unmanned - or drone - bomber.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the plane could serve as a "messenger of death", but that its key message was one of friendship.

Iranian state TV later showed the "Karrar" aircraft in flight.

It said it had a range of 1,000km (620 miles) and could carry two 250-pound (115kg) bombs, or a precision bomb of 500 pounds.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11052023

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Pic:

[angrycarpenter]

9. there is no way in hell that thing has a payload of 500 pounds.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. It's a pic of the Iraq drone that threatened W. Civilization. nt

[jpak]

29. Yup - get the duct tape and dropcloths out

:evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

16. You noticed that, too? Maybe 50 lb. On a GOOD day, lol.

[mike r]

14. That's one scary model airplane

[IDemo]

15. Here is a pic of the Iranian drone:

[LawnKorn]

17. Where have I seen one of those before?

It was just the other day ...





Oh yeah! It was on the History Channel.



Those clever Iranians, always coming up with new and innovative technology.

[Elmore Furth]

19. You are right. The resemblence is uncanny.

[boppers]

25. It almost looks like it was *designed* to have a huge radar signature.

Very interesting.

[Pavulon]

18. 10 to 1 no reliable turbofan and no guidance

beyond simple gyro and inertial. Cant see control surfaces and of course they have no aircraft to carry it like the AGM series.

[yurbud]

20. details like that didn't stop the media from whipping up fear of Iraqi model airplanes in 2003

Facts don't seem to get in the way of good warmongering anymore.

If there was a photo of Ahmadinejad picking up a really big rock, they would claim he's about to throw it at the US or Israel and kill us all.

[daleo]

21. Then this drone doesn't really matter

And there's no reason to get excited.

[Pavulon]

28. Correct. Worth noting but not like they just tested a 2 stage bomb.(nt)

[Magleetis]

23. Correct as usual

The US could easily take it out with this.


http://www.break.com/index/cool-rubber-band-gatling-gun

[JesterCS]

22. maybe im not awake yet

but if that picture is in Iran, they have some nice clean floors =p

[msongs]

2. considering that Iran is threatened by two bullies, this is not surprising nt

[cstanleytech]

5. Oh please, Iran is just as much at fault.

[EFerrari]

26. Really? When did Iran overturn our government and install a puppet?

I must have missed that.

[madokie]

3. My surprise is they've waited this long

Isreal is a real threat to them and the whole region actually

[cstanleytech]

6. Israel does tend to feed the flames of alot of the problems in the region

I'll grant you but thats hardly a valid excuse for Irans actions like their treatment of their own citizens for example.
As for this remote bomb its nothing really new so /shrug

[MajorChode]

8. Well, there's certainly nothing threatening about strapping a bomb on a busrider

Or financing those who build bombs that blow up airliners, or all the other fucked up things that Iran has been doing for decades. If you think Israel is really a threat to Iran, take a look at a globe sometime. The closest their borders come is about 600 miles. Iran is no more of a threat to Israel than they want to be, and they most certainly want to be. I'm sure as hell no fan of Israel, but in the unlikely event that Iran actually mass produces these things, there's little doubt they will find their way to Hamas. I don't really see that as a good thing.

[UpInArms]

4. more duct tape and balsa wood and warmongering and saber rattling

I am so sick and tired of this war and destruction bullshit.

[cstanleytech]

7. It is kind of sad to because

back in the 90s Iran did appear to be becoming more moderate until they cracked down on its own citizens and swung back to their old ways of behaving like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum in order to get their own way.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. +1000, and so are some Israeli female military personnel, check it,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/22/israel-female-soldiers-gaza-occupation


"There was a lot of tension, a lot of shootings and suicide bombings," she said. "Little by little you understand the rules of the game. You need to make it hard for the Arabs – that's the main rule – because they are the enemy."

She cited a routine example of a Palestinian woman waiting at the crossing. Michelzon called her officer, asking permission to allow the woman through. She was told to make such a request once the woman had been kept waiting for hours. "I felt very alone in the army. I couldn't talk about the things I felt were misplaced," she said. "I didn't have strong views but I felt uncomfortable about the talk, about soldiers hitting Arabs and laughing. I thought everyone else was normal and I was the one who wasn't. I felt an outsider to the group experience."

At the end of her service, in June 2002, Michelzon said she felt the need to escape and took off to India. "I went through a breakdown little by little," she said. It was only when she returned to enrol in university, and two years of therapy, that she began to consider her "duty" to speak out. She also came across Breaking the Silence, an organisation of army veterans who publish testimonies from former soldiers on life in the occupied territories to stimulate debate about the "moral price" of the occupation.

Michelzon gave evidence to the group and two years ago appeared in a documentary, To See If I'm Smiling, about the experiences of young women in the army. The film, she said, was criticised by all sides. The left focused on "the bad things we did and not on the fact that we wanted to start a discussion. We wanted to put up a mirror and tell Israeli society to look itself in the eyes.

[MajorChode]

13. At least they put a coat of paint on it this time

You certainly can't say they aren't trying.

[MajorChode]

12. That certainly looks like a message of "peace and friendship" to me

I don't see the problem.

[EFerrari]

27. Iran must be using the Heritage Foundation's PR guy.

lol

[truthisfreedom]

24. Yo, nice drone, dude.