iranian Karrar Drone, posted with vodpod
[Notice that there is no propeller on this drone. From the actual flight footage, you can see just how fast this thing moves, making it no more useful than a jet plane for monitoring anything on the ground. If the idea of “drones” is that of nearly silent, slow-moving, small aircraft, which can linger over site for hours on end, then by these standards, this in NOT a “drone;” it is a cruise missile with bomb-dropping capability. From the look on Ahmadinejad’s face in the photo below, he understands that he was up there putting on a show with his large golden phallic symbol, for the Western media. Iran’s leaders are so full of bullshit, that they often pretend to be a world-class armaments maker. Take for example the recent shoot-down of an Iranian Phantom F-4 over Bushehr by an Iranian ABM system which couldn’t identify friendly aircraft from “foes” (SEE: Iranian Phantom Fighter Crash Near Bushehr Was Friendly Fire ABM Test Failure). ]
President Mahmud Ahmadinejad introduced the Karrar aircraft on national television.
August 22, 2010. Photo from Radio Free Europe
Iran inaugurates its first bombing drone
Iran unveiled on Sunday the country’s first domestically-built unmanned bomber, Iranian Press TV reported.
The 4-meter long-range drone, dubbed as Karrar or striker, was inaugurated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day in the Islamic Republic, Press TV said.
The presentation of the bombing drone took place a day after Iranian and Russian specialists started fuelling Iran’s first nuclear power station.
The construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran Iran’s first nuclear plant was begun in 1975 by several German construction companies. They pulled out following a U.S. embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent U.S. Embassy siege in Tehran.
Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete construction in February 1998.
Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons under the guise of its nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at the peaceful generation of civilian energy.
MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti)
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