Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain?

An anonymous reader writes "German news source Spiegel are reporting (english babelfish translation) that some TV journalists have found a seemingly abandoned Russian space shuttle in the Persian Gulf. It looks like it could be the atmospheric test demonstrator Buran OK-GLI which was in Sydney, Australia. Pictures here (external) and here (internal). Boy, what I would give to be able to sit in that seat and flip those switches!" Another reader, grm_wnr writes "German tabloid newspaper Bild reports that a russian Buran shuttle has been found in the Bahrain desert. Here is the story (in german, Google translation here). What's funny is that noone knows how it ended up there. At least the fate of one of the four Buran prototypes is now confirmed." There is not much confirmation on this, outside of a few pictures... let the reader beware.

Comments

Re:How did I get here?

[drinkypoo]

Well yeah, who wants to cross Russia on the ground? Certainly not the russians.

WMD tie in

[monkeyfarm]

So a frickin' space shuttle can remain hidden for years and years (which was not actually "hidden") in the desert, but people expect to be able to find WMD 's in an even BIGGER desert that actually WERE _HIDDEN_ in a few months... I just don't get it.