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April 04, 2006

Super-modern (invisible) flying boat

Hot on the heels of the superfast-whale missile, Iran has announced it now possesses the...

"super-modern flying boat" capable of evading radar. State TV showed a brief clip of the boat's launch. "Due to its advanced design, no radar at sea or in the air can detect it. It can lift out of the water," the television said. It said the boat was "all Iranian-made and can launch missiles with precise targeting while moving."

There do appear to be a lot of flat, reflective surfaces, and the huge propeller mount on top doesn't look like anything stealthy. In fact, it looks sort of like an everglades skimmer, which is not terribly good for choppy waters on open seas. Doubtless it will be a decisive factor in naval engagements fought in swimming pools.

Unless it actually can get more than a few feet off the water, then they will have invented the super-modern prop-driven sea plane, only 94 years after the french did.

I think we just discovered where Bagdad Bob moved to.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at April 4, 2006 02:36 PM

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