'Vorsprung durch technik' - Iranian Fotros UAV Missing a Screw or Two.HT: UskowiOnIran.
Iran unveiled its latest Wunderwaffe, the "FOTROS" long range UAV this week
(1).
I'm sure I'm not the only noticing, but this high tech UAV seems to be
missing two screws as shown in the above photos. I assume they are not there by
design, or to house two tiny hidden cameras.
One would think that as they put this toy together, they would have had a
mechanism for quality control. Even though this media project was probably
rushed ahead of the Tuesday nuclear talks in Geneva, there is no excuse for this
level of incompetence, and for making Iran the laughingstock of the
world.
As to the general effectiveness of Iranian UAVs, the proof, as they say, is
in the pudding. It is no secret that the IRGC is actively engaged in the Syrian
civil war, yet the coverage of that war shows no evidence of active use of
Iranian UAVs.
Case in point, the IRGC commander Esmail Heydari was filmed by a
documentary film crew walking into a rebel ambush in September of 2013 (2). I'm sure he would have appreciated having a UAV handy to
scout ahead; a basic Iranian made UAV, with German spare parts, would have been
sufficient to the job. Just like the Iranian made SAMs are no where to be found
as the Israeli air force strikes Syrian targets at will.
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