Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber

ms_gen writes "Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled today the first UAV bomber produced by Iran. The drone, named Karrar (farsi for Striker) can carry various types of bombs. It can reach up to 900 km/h in speed and has a range of 1000 kilometers (620 miles). The Iranian president mentions that 'Karrar is a symbol of the progress of defence technology in Iran.'"

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Left out the best part

[ScentCone]

How can one summarize this bit of news, and leave out the fact that Iran refers to this UAV as "The Ambassador Of Death?" I mean, come on. That's the best part.

Re:Left out the best part

[the linux geek]

I personally found it hilarious that he said: "This jet is a messenger of honour and human generosity and a saviour of mankind, before being a messenger of death for enemies of mankind," President Ahmadinejad said after unveiling the Karrar at a ceremony with defence officials." Gotta love the human generosity symbolized by weaponry.

Re:Left out the best part

[Sponge Bath]

Is Iran intentionally angling for Fox attention? Why?

I hear Ahmadinejad has the hots for Rupert Murdoch.

Re:Left out the best part

[Anonymous Coward]

Iran is one of the oldest still existing empires, formerly known as Persia. As Persia they have invaded many countries.
Remember the movie 300? Xerxes was Persian.

Re:Left out the best part

[T Murphy]

A UAV bomber can be used against enemy aircraft carriers, for example.

Re:Left out the best part

[budgenator]

The mental image of the Palestinians being given back the land they though was theirs, and finding it had been turned into trinitite, is just to apropos. The Palestinians, a people screwed over for millenia, finally get to make their homes out of glass, where they can't throw stones!

Re:Left out the best part

[lgw]

Evil like naming attack helicopters after an indigenous tribe they wiped out and stole their land from. Those wicked bastards.

Wait, there are attack helicopters that wiped out an indigenous tribe, then took their name? Man, I need to start watching the news again, I'm totally out of the loop!

Re:That's good stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

great idea - then I can start marketing my specially designed oil drilling bits that can cut through the green glass that will be covering all of Persia

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UAV heaven

[Anonymous Coward]

The AI has been promised 72 virgin iPads after it completes it's mission.

Re:V-1 with turbojet

[GreatBunzinni]

Looks alot like a V-1 or Loon but with hard points on the wings and turbojet instead of pulse jet. So late 50s technology designed with CAD. Probably a 30-40% failure rate on them too, that's standard for first or second generation cruise missiles/drones.

I guess that the Germans in 1940 made a whole lot of comments of that sort when they started to see Russia's T-34s entering action. How did that went out?

Direct result of the Pentagon's smaller budget.

[DieByWire]

This is really part of the Pentagon's smaller budget. We're now getting the Iranians to build and launch new target drones for the US Navy.

Re:Standing and fighting is for glass makers

[sribe]

The rest of my defense would involve the army stripping down into civilian clothing the second the invasion hits and dispersing into the population with a plan, and giving everyone a (civilians included) gun.

Yeah, in general, your post makes a lot of sense. But if you were in charge of Iran's defenses, and I were in charge of the US invasion, I would press full-speed ahead until the moment where you gave every civilian a gun, then turn around and leave ;-)

Thunderbirds Are Go!

[Taliesan999]

Was it just me who looked at the picture attached to the article and thought "Thunderbirds"? ...then I looked at the bunch of characters next to it and I swear I saw some puppet strings.