{"id":84743,"date":"2019-02-02T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84743"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:07:22","slug":"84743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84743","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Newest Drone…Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n…is An Unmanned Conversion Of A 1940s American Jet Trainer<\/h3>\n

By Joseph Trevithick<\/p>\n

The converted T-33 is the latest example of Iran’s routinely dubious boasts about its military capabilities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mad Mullahs are at it again, proudly displaying their newest in hi-tech hardware. Not so long ago we were treated to their new Stealth Fighter- any resemblance to the T-5 aircraft was just coincidental.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, the drone, dubbed Khodkar (Automatic), was showcased at an air defense exhibition in Tehran on Thursday, as the country prepares for celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n

Our friends at The Warzone opined:<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of copying U.S.-made aircraft<\/a> and other weapons that the country received during the previous regime of American ally Mohammad Reza Shah, or transforming them into newish designs<\/a>, before boasting about them as entirely domestic creations. Now the Iranians have added an early Cold War-era Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star jet trainer-turned-drone to the mix.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 30, 2019, Iranian Air Force unveiled the Khodkar, or “automatic,” at an exhibition in Tehran to mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah in 1979. Authorities in Iran have set up various physical displays and other imagery throughout the capital to tout the country’s military capabilities and technical achievements over the past four decades. It’s an obvious and often laughable exercise in propaganda meant to underscore the regime’s claims that it has and continues to successfully defy its critics, especially the United States and its allies, in the face of years of sanctions and embargoes.<\/p>\n

We’ve already seen one absurd example of these claims in a new mural that, in part, depicts Iranian engineers working on the American Space Shuttle<\/a>, when the country’s own nascent space program has been racking up failed launches.<\/a> Iran’s boasts about Khodkar are significantly less extreme, but the design is still hardly the technical marvel Iranian state-run media would like to depict it as.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"T-33\"Nope. No resemblance at all.<\/p>\n

I actually have a grudging respect for the Iranian’s ability to cobble together the 1950’s era hardware they have, and make a Franken-Drone that actually may even work. Until it blunders into an F\/A-18; no kill like a gun kill.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here: The Drive<\/a><\/p>\n

Tip of the hat to our very own Poetrooper, who saw the humor and shot it to me. Thanks, buddy.<\/p>\n

Iran in ‘successful test’ of new cruise missile on revolution anniversary<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Iran announced the “successful test” of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres on Saturday, coinciding with celebrations for the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n

“The test of the Hoveizeh cruise missile was carried out successfully at a range of 1,200 kilometres (840 miles) and accurately hit the set target,” Defence Minister Amir Hatami said, quoted on state television which broadcast footage of its launch.<\/p>\n

“It can be ready in the shortest possible time and flies at a very low altitude,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hatami described the Hoveizeh as the “long arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran” in defending itself.<\/p>\n

It is part of the Soumar group of cruise missile, first unveiled in 2015 with a range of 700 kilometres, according to the minister.<\/p>\n

The Hoveizeh unveiling was part of an arms exhibition titled “40 years of defensive achievements” held in Tehran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I imagine they hit the ground, every time. Read the rest here: France 24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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