Oh noez!! Irans got flying boat squadron!!

[JUMPNYC]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/iran-unveils-squadrons-of-flying-boats/?hpt=T2

Its got a prop and machine guns...didnt we have that in WWI?

[markseven]

It's a trick.

[JUMPNYC]

[jasonsnoddy]

[joshh]

They sure look well built...

[ZM Blue Devil]

US built them.

Dont you know that as long as private industries produce weapons there will be a war some where...

[M-technik-3]

LOL just think North Korea carries out covert ops with the Ancient Antonov AN2, it's made of wood so it must be stealth.

[Ryan Stewart]

They sure look well built...

As Clarkson would say, "They look like they were built in a shed in Lestershire."

[Eecen]

Pschhh...

Here's a real boat plane





The Soviet Lun Erkanoplan



Edit: And because I think this thing is hilarious, some more pictures of it. And apparently they actually did build it?

[RainierHooker]

um... well what do you say to that?
I'm sure that a brightly-painted, prop-driven flying boat would work great as a surveilance platform














...in 1941

[M-technik-3]

Pschhh...

Here's a real boat plane





The Soviet Lun Erkanoplan



Edit: And because I think this thing is hilarious, some more pictures of it. And apparently they actually did build it?

Not only did they build it but it actually worked the way it was supposed too. But boy was it a fuel pig. Using ground effect is not cheap by any means.

[tg318is]

Here's a real boat plane

That is badass

[Massive Lee]

I think I posted a while ago about these ground effect boats. It is fast, goes under the radar, and not necessarely high tech. Russians had many types of them during the Cold War. Some found civilian applications in the Western World.

[Kershaw]

it looks like its flying too high to be a ground effect vehicle. can anyone confirm this?

in any regard, yeah.. great job iran. you have built mosquitoes.

[Massive Lee]

it looks like its flying too high to be a ground effect vehicle. can anyone confirm this?

Something similar.