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2006-04-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran tests "flying boat" and land-to-sea missile
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Posted by Steve 2006-04-04 10:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 From Jan 2005: TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- A number of Iranian engineers have designed a two-seat flying boat in the Malek Ashatar University of Industry in Shiraz which is able to fly over water for 1-4 meter distance and even 50 meter distance in emergency to jump over obstacles, according to a report released in the Persian Gulf exhibition that wound up on Jan. 21 in Kish.

That's a WIGE plane.

The flying boat is in final stages to be produced massively.

Gearing up asembly line for mass production.

It speeds as fast as 160 km per hour and can be continuously driven for two hours with a fuel tank of 60 liter. The boat is fully made by composite and is equipped with an Austrian-made 110 horse piston engine.

That matches the photos. 160 km at 2 meters off the water will make it difficult to hit with normal anti-aircraft missiles.

Less than ten countries such as Russia, Germany, China, the U.S., and Australia have so far been able to obtain the production technology of this sort of boat in the world.

Russians have been working on WIGE planes for years.

Meanwhile, the managing director of Fajr Air Industry Co., said that his company has produced four fully composite-structure planes entitled “Fajr 3” so far but the figure will reach 11 by next year and 15 soon after that.
Einollah Qal’eh added that Fajr 3 plane is mainly used for training, traffic control, and mapping. It might be used as an air taxi or for private flights. The minimum price of the planes stands at 2,700 million rials (300,000 dollars) and cost owners some 1,500 rials per hour flight which is much cheaper than helitaxis that cost 5,000 rials per hour flight, he said.

Cheap, mass-produced suicide planes, perfect for the Iranian jihadi corp.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-04-04 10:52||   2006-04-04 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I give up. They are way to advanced for us. Before they kill us all, let's give in. I want to live in a world where a earthquake kills 44,000 people, but they are far superior to us militarily.
Either that or just nuke them.
Posted by plainslow 2006-04-04 11:03||   2006-04-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Iran is the very model of a modern military machine.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-04 11:05||   2006-04-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Also testing new deep fry technology stolen from internship at American McDonalds. Can quickly heat oil to 350 degrees to pour on special forces infidals trying to breech the castle walls.
Posted by capsu78 2006-04-04 11:20||   2006-04-04 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 The Iranian military better have enough gasoline stored for those Rotax engines. Domestic gasoline production will be a goin' down.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-04-04 11:20||   2006-04-04 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Smacks of an extra-terrestrial intelligence being at work.
Posted by Howard UK 2006-04-04 11:23||   2006-04-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#7 That flying boat is pie in the sky. I don't see it's weapons capability. No armor, no lifting capability, probably doesn't manuver very well, and needs highly trained operators, but Iran feels a need to boast of it's superior technology.
I think we should hold manuvers called the Cartoon Strikes Back. We can feature those air colume thingys; a Mohammed with swinging swords trying to stand straight, weaving and bobbing, thrashing about with bloody swords.
Posted by wxjames 2006-04-04 11:23||   2006-04-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 "...Back off, man - we've got super-advanced flying boats..."

No probs, guys. Our TARGET drones have better performance than that. Oh, and by the way, for people who are so obsessed with history, you should look up what happened to the Japanese when they mass produced special one-off suicide planes.

Mike

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-04-04 11:36||   2006-04-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#9 next up?....a flying carpet! Something "nice" with great patterns and a fringe to die for
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-04 11:42||   2006-04-04 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 That WIGE should be meat on the table for the R2D2's
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-04-04 11:48||   2006-04-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 What do people know about the Kowsar? I googled it and have come up the Shahab-6 ICBM. But given its purported role and capabilities, this doesn't mesh. Could it be the AS-15 they got from Ukraine, or the C-802 they got from China and further developed with North Korea? Or a reversed engineered, indigenously produced variant of either?
Posted by GradStudent06">GradStudent06  2006-04-04 12:22||   2006-04-04 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 This is all very interesting, but I didn't realize there was a water border between afganistan and iran...
Posted by flash91 2006-04-04 12:23||   2006-04-04 12:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Soviet Lun Ekranoplan



P6M Seamaster
Posted by RD 2006-04-04 12:35||   2006-04-04 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 If they really work hard to perfect that WIGE thingy, it may someday grow up to be a Supermarine Walrus.
Posted by Mike 2006-04-04 13:27||   2006-04-04 13:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Winged In Ground Effect craft made of composite.
A Chain Gun would turn one into a pile of shredded carbon very quickly.
Posted by SPoD 2006-04-04 13:55|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-04 13:55|| Front Page Top

#16 Correct. Proper countermeasure for this is helicopters.
Posted by buwaya 2006-04-04 14:02||   2006-04-04 14:02|| Front Page Top

#17 
Proper countermeasure is #9 bird shot.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-04-04 14:11||   2006-04-04 14:11|| Front Page Top

#18 No radar can detect it. That is...no Soviet 1990's era radar can detect it.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-04-04 14:17||   2006-04-04 14:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Re # 13: the Russian craft is a pure WIG while the P6M was designed to be the USN's sea-going equivalent to the B-52: rotary bomb bay, 4 J-79's w/ AB (think F-4 Phantom) and the abiltiy to ride rough seas for mid-ocean refueling from tanker subs. Depending on which version of history you read, it fell victim to either budget cuts of USAF-USN in fighting and the AF won. All tooling and remainging aircraft were cut up and sold as scrap ( 2 crashed during tests and one story still circulating says that one of the engineers on the project saved a set of the wing tip floats and made a houseboat from them).
Posted by USN, ret. 2006-04-04 14:48||   2006-04-04 14:48|| Front Page Top

#20 Can't be detected on radar? Sounds tough. We'll have to send Clint Eastwood in to steal it.
Posted by eLarson 2006-04-04 14:50|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-04-04 14:50|| Front Page Top

#21 These have already taken out two ships-of-the-line. We just haven't noticed yet; it's *that* good.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-04-04 14:57||   2006-04-04 14:57|| Front Page Top

#22 These have already taken out two ships-of-the-line. We just haven't noticed yet; it's *that* good.

But Nelson has.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-04 15:22||   2006-04-04 15:22|| Front Page Top

#23 I guess it's just coincidence that ALL the Russian WIG testing was done on the Caspian. The Russians began testing WIG aircraft in the mid-1960's, and had built several dozen different designs. Many of them failed, some spectacularly.

I see Iran boasting of devices that the Russians designed and built five, ten, twenty years ago, and which they had very little success with. Are the Russians selling Iran all their junk? Seems like it...
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-04-04 15:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-04 15:39|| Front Page Top

#24 All this publicity is Irans pitch to hugo chavez aka bobo. who needs new arms suppliers to put expropriated oil money to work? bobo.

who is building a million man army as a substitute for jobs and free enterprise? bobo is. The world as we'v known it has changed, the disentagled left has found its new useful idiots and the whole damn thing is being orchestrated by one vladimir putin.

Posted by Uling Glaimp1885 2006-04-04 17:21||   2006-04-04 17:21|| Front Page Top

#25 Nice plane, question, how do they load the camels?
Posted by Democraps 2006-04-04 18:39||   2006-04-04 18:39|| Front Page Top

#26 The Iranians might want to paint concentric circles on the craft with numbers increasing towards the center. Make it more challenging for our military.
Posted by DMFD 2006-04-04 18:41||   2006-04-04 18:41|| Front Page Top

#27 Hell, all I asked for was a flying Persian rug
Posted by Captain America 2006-04-04 20:42||   2006-04-04 20:42|| Front Page Top

#28 It still has to survive both US-Allied air strikes
+ US Navy defenses-in-depth - its still slowewr than the Navy's curr missle systems, plus lest we fergit the Navy's PHALANX-based CIWS can take out. i.e. SHRED TO PIECES, ANY MULTIPLE AIR-SEA THREAT(S) within its scopes. This "flying boat" is likely most useful in night-time suicide attacks and where Iran still holds any beach area(s) near enuff to US naval units - in end, it still comes down to the Mullahs wilfully engaging US milfors in pre-planned, PC, asymmetric warfare, aka "People's War", to includ nuclearized suicide attacks.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-04 23:51||   2006-04-04 23:51|| Front Page Top

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