Iran has a new weapon.

[tvltre]

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010 ... .boats.avn

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Awesome, the U.S. found a buyer for that crappy development program from the '60's. Wonder what the specs are for altitude, speed, range, armament, etc.

 

[Guest]

adimawhackjob is the worlds biggest ****** bag.

 

[Shoots_he_scores]

Wow, really? Cause I'm pretty sure people have been using float planes for the last 75+ years and that's really all this is. I'm sure the craftsmanship is subpar so it should only be a matter of time before a fuselage/hull leak, whatever you want to call it, completely fucks up the avionics and one of these things crashes into the side of a mountain.

 

[wetcoasthawk65]

[quote name="Shoots_he_scores"]Wow, really? Cause I'm pretty sure people have been using float planes for the last 75+ years and that's really all this is. I'm sure the craftsmanship is subpar so it should only be a matter of time before a fuselage/hull leak, whatever you want to call it, completely fucks up the avionics and one of these things crashes into the side of a mountain.[/quote]



It looks like those things are designed to skim just above the water. I'm going with Kamakazi/suicide machine.

 

[JOVE23]

[quote name="R K"]adimawhackjob is the worlds biggest ****** bag.[/quote]



1) I think Kim Jong Il is d-bag #1

2) The ticker on FOXNews called him A-Jad today. I don't know how I feel about this.

 

[MassHavoc]

Correctly me if I'm wrong but isn't IRAN kinda a desert? And what the hell is he going to do with those things? Kamikaze them?

 

[Shoots_he_scores]

[quote name="wetcoasthawk65"]



It looks like those things are designed to skim just above the water. I'm going with Kamakazi/suicide machine.[/quote]



They have a pretty significant wake so they have to sit in the water, they look like they're skimming because that's an effect of the lift on the wings. I could explain this theory a lot better but not even aviation enthusiasts like myself like reading or typing about aerodynamics.

 

[tvltre]

[quote name="Shoots_he_scores"]



They have a pretty significant wake so they have to sit in the water, they look like they're skimming because that's an effect of the lift on the wings. I could explain this theory a lot better but not even aviation enthusiasts like myself like reading or typing about aerodynamics.[/quote]



Oh, as if some here wouldn't know what a WIG effect is.



Funny how Iran wants to work on nuke technology and came up with a squadron of water/air craft that could do absolutely nothing but cruise the Southern border of their country in the Gulf of Oman.

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

[quote name="tvltre"]



Oh, as if some here wouldn't know what a WIG effect is.



Funny how Iran wants to work on nuke technology and came up with a squadron of water/air craft that could do absolutely nothing but cruise the Southern border of their country in the Gulf of Oman.[/quote]





But it looks cool and menacing...