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2018-12-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran navy launches stealth warship in the Gulf
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-01 08:58|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Somebody tell me if there is any significance to the large radar dish shown in the linked video.
Posted by Bobby 2018-12-01 09:41||   2018-12-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 In a ceremony carried live on state television, the Sahand destroyer ‐ which can sustain voyages lasting five months or two torpedoes, whichever comes first without resupply
Posted by Frank G 2018-12-01 10:09||   2018-12-01 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 It comes from the factory presunk so it's invincable.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2018-12-01 10:13||   2018-12-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Somebody tell me if there is any significance to the large radar dish shown in the linked video.

Controlling those half dozen RC 'Tug Boats'. Makes the boat Can't Fathoms tall.

Reading the article, you'd think the Iranians just launched Space Battlecruiser Akagi. Looks like a Navy knock-off of a knock-off of a F-5.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-12-01 10:28||   2018-12-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Awful lot of 'hard edges' and vertical elements for stealth, but only my opinion.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-12-01 11:13||   2018-12-01 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Awful lot of 'hard edges' and vertical elements for stealth

We can fix the hard edges in Photoshop, but those flat vertical sides... hey, maybe they are coated with special Islamic Radar Absorbent Paint. It's the Will of Allan, you electromagnetic bitches!
Posted by SteveS 2018-12-01 12:13||   2018-12-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Well if you sink you go 'stealth' right?
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-12-01 13:02||   2018-12-01 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I love you guys!!! This is the funniest and most clever bunch on the internet. I never visit without laughing over and over.
Posted by Roger Smith 2018-12-01 15:32||   2018-12-01 15:32|| Front Page Top

#9 you don't need radar to detect a surface ship this big in the Persian Gulf as there is enough aerial surveillance in the area to track everything bigger than a canoe.

Posted by lord garth 2018-12-01 19:02||   2018-12-01 19:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Who knew camel shit dung panels were stealthy.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-12-01 22:18||   2018-12-01 22:18|| Front Page Top

#11 "five months without resupply"
So, the engines don't run? (Fuel?)
Posted by ed in texas 2018-12-01 22:26||   2018-12-01 22:26|| Front Page Top

#12 F-14 variant. They float better.
Posted by newc 2018-12-01 22:40||   2018-12-01 22:40|| Front Page Top

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