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Iran-IRGC-Plane: Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said here Saturday Iran has started mass producing and using a stealth drone with a range of 700 kilometers.
Originally posted by asen_y2k
Now do you think that will sink some American naval ships IF a war breaks out??
the general said the drone can be used in reconnaissance operations, information gathering, picture dispatching and film shooting.
Originally posted by 12m8keall2c
Originally posted by asen_y2k
Now do you think that will sink some American naval ships IF a war breaks out??
Not a one. Why?
the general said the drone can be used in reconnaissance operations, information gathering, picture dispatching and film shooting.
No mention of weaponry or munitions capabilities, which would certainly increase it's radar signature.
Originally posted by cyberdude78
The fact that a drone flew over one of our carriers doesn't really say much. It just means that they can take videos in peace time. I was actually aboard a carrier once a few years back and I'm just a civie. So at the moment I can say that as a middle schooler (at the time, high school now) I've gotten closer than the Iranian military has. But there's no way that I could ever blow up said carrier. Taking pictures of it was one thing because the navy was nice enough to let me, trying to deliver munitions to it is something else.
On to mass production of stealth drones, that raises a lot of questions.
The Iranian defense industry is considerably smaller than the USA's, so what kind of numbers will "mass production" churn out?
Are these actually stealth? Or did they just paint them black?
Can they actually prove that they can fly over a US carrier battle group without being detected?
Can they carry munitions? If so how much? And how much will that impact it's "stealth" and flight performance?
What are the chance's that these would be used for a preemptive strike?
Is there any possibility of using their drones as an AWACS for their F-14's (assuming that they're still operational, which is questionable), similar to how the F-22 can do the same for US fighters?
How much longer is this dick measuring contest between Amadinejad and Bush going to continue?