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2014-03-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

And the Iranian explanation for the fake aircraft carrier is . . .

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Posted by gorb 2014-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 My thought was that there's an eerie similarity behind them claiming it's for an Iranian-Canadian movie titled 'Airbus' and an American-Canadian movie titled "Argo'...

But what ruse would this be for?

Orion

Posted by Orion 2014-03-24 02:22|| 2014-03-24 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "We know it's not an actual aircraft carrier. It's made to look like one of ours ... but makes us wonder: what is it all for?" Jason Salata told Reuters by telephone.

What are mock-ups generally used for ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-24 03:05|| 2014-03-24 03:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "It was made....uhh....for a movie. Yeah, that's the ticket"

Posted by Frank G 2014-03-24 08:05|| 2014-03-24 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe made for testing radar systems.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-24 08:23|| 2014-03-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 If you need an aircraft carrier to test whether your radar can detect an aircraft carrier you have some really poor radar / operators.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-03-24 08:33|| 2014-03-24 08:33|| Front Page Top

#6 OR it's made to test an imaging radar system.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-24 08:41|| 2014-03-24 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I will believe it when I see Sean Penn wearing a white Tehran Holiday Inn towel around his head while standing on the flight deck with an xbox controller guiding a faux drone.

Posted by airandee 2014-03-24 08:52|| 2014-03-24 08:52|| Front Page Top

Old technology, new application.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-24 08:53|| 2014-03-24 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd always assumed they would blow up the carrier and save the footage until a crisis and then claim they sunk a US carrier except word got out.

I mean seriously, you've got carriers transiting the gulf all the time, they could easily go into business selling stock footage to Hollywood if they wanted to and the Vincense crisis really didn't involve a carrier. Of course they might be updating the story to give it an Iranian-happy ending.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-03-24 09:57|| 2014-03-24 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Iranian newspapers said it was "part of the decor" of a movie being made by Iranian director Nader Talebzadeh on the 1988 shooting down of an Iran Air civilian plane by the USS Vincennes.

Funny, there wasn't an aircraft carrier involved.

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-24 10:17|| 2014-03-24 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 In the period betewen end of WWI and Hitler's repelling of the Verasilles treaty the Germans used "tank replicas", ie cars covered with a tank-like superstructure made of fabric and canvas, for training and tuning their anti-tank tactics.

What are the Iranians up to?

Posted by JFM 2014-03-24 12:08|| 2014-03-24 12:08|| Front Page Top

#12 @JFM 2014-03-24 12:08:

..true, but the Allies had inflatables (this kind, not that kind)..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-24 14:42|| 2014-03-24 14:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Latest footage of iranians attacking carrier.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-03-24 15:01|| 2014-03-24 15:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Still don't get how they're making this thing. Even if it's hollow, that's a ton of metal. I suppose they could be wielding pieces onto it like like it's a Mexican Carrier(think South Park Mexican Rockets).

Posted by Charles 2014-03-24 15:14|| 2014-03-24 15:14|| Front Page Top

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