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Old 05-31-2011, 11:01 PM
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It looks like some variant of the GBU-15, however it is painted. This weapon design is basically some 30+ years old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_B2vUAxBow

The Iranians are good at dragging out some old piece of obscure ordnance, painting it in their national colors, parading it on the back of a flatbed truck and calling it their "new super weapon."

I have seen them do this with Hawk missiles, with Exocets, and lots of other stuff. A few months back they even dug out some 50-year-old plans for the Alexander Lippisch wing-in-ground-effect flying boat and built a squadron. They presented this junk to the world as their new "stealth" fighters (the WIGE configuration has absolutely nothing to do with stealth). I suppose that 99.99% of the people in Iran are too stupid to know these things are laughably bad representations of advanced technology, but to anyone who works around military gear these things were so dumb they don't even make for a bad joke.

Sorry guys, I don't think there is any missile or rocket here---



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Generally if they are presenting it as "new and super" is is some four generations old multiple re-hashed dinosaur turd. Most of their "new" stuff is hardware we would have put in the "POS" class back during the Vietnam war.
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