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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jun 28, 2009
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About once a year i have to get my STS fix and post something.The Defence Ministry was not immediately able to give details of a "flying boat" that was shown on television. The small propeller-driven aircraft floated on a trimaran hull until it took off and flew low over the surface of the water. State television said it could reach speeds of 100 knots."A super-modern flying boat was successfully tested in the 'Great Prophet' war game in Persian Gulf waters," state television said."Because of its hull's advanced design, no radar at sea or in the air can locate it. It can lift out of the water. It is wholly domestically built and can launch missiles with precise targeting while moving."The military exercise is being held as pressure from the West, especially from the United States, rises on its nuclear programme.Iran's military technology might not be highly advanced, but analysts say Iran would not need much know-how to cause chaos in vital oil shipping channels.They say Iran could be testing arms in the Strait of Hormuz, a key tanker nexus, to dissuade Israel and the United States from taking military action against nuclear-power sites.The United States said it was possible Iran had developed weapons that could evade sonar and radar but warned the Islamic Republic had a tendency to "boast and exaggerate."Earlier in the war games, Iran said it had tested a radar-evading rocket and the Hoot (whale) underwater missile which could outpace any enemy warship.On Monday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard test-fired a torpedo it said was being mass-produced in Iran."With intelligent missile terminals, Iran is capable of confronting any assaults from forces outside the region," the official IRNA news agency quoted Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief Yahya Rahim as saying.Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki dismissed the West's concerns about developments in Iran's missile capabilities. "Iran has never attacked any country. Our military doctrine is defensive doctrine," he told reporters.
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369, Searey Motivation Pictures,
367, Amphibians,
368, Flying Safety-Searey,
301, Seaplane Issues
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Rick Oreair - Jun 28,2009
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You gonna' rep this stealth LSA in the US?
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Thomas Alexander Bowden - Jun 28,2009
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Lets make fake missiles out of cardboard tubes and install them on the Searey and send photos of them to Iran. The Searey looks better than theres
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Kenneth Leonard - Jun 29,2009
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Thomas - the Searey already gots missiles on pylons... It would be easy to paint the pontoons up like missiles.
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Tony Gugliuzza - Jun 29,2009
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I though it was funny where it said, 'Because of its hull's advanced design, no radar at sea or in the air can locate it.'<br /><br />With that pylon mounted engine, I'll bet it has a radar signature bigger than a whole fleet of Raptors.
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Kenneth Leonard - Jun 29,2009
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We've got radar that from NJ can see a baseball go over a stadium wall in California. And that's only what we're willing to acknowledge in public... Yup, it's about as invisible as their politics are visible.
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