{"id":189823,"date":"2010-02-09T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/the-iranians-are-selling-someone-the-brooklyn-bridge\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:07:00","slug":"the-iranians-are-selling-someone-the-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/the-iranians-are-selling-someone-the-brooklyn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iranians are Selling Someone the Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about their nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about their claim that they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61614S20100207?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29\">flown a prototype stealth aircraft<\/a>, or it may be a subscale drone demonstrator<\/p>\n<p>The source is Fars News, and the aircraft is called the &#8216;Sofreh Mahi'(flatfish):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;The research model of this plane which staged a successful flight passed all radar-evading tests that we desired,&#8221; Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Air Force General Aziz Nasirzadeh told FNA.<\/p>\n<p>The General said that the flatfish-inspired shape of the aircraft as well as the materials used in its structure have provided the aircraft with the radar-evading capability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;.Flatfish?  You are calling your aircraft a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Flounder<\/span><\/span>?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>I need a screen wipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about their nuclear program. I am talking about their claim that they have flown a prototype stealth aircraft, or it may be a subscale drone demonstrator The source is Fars News, and the aircraft is called the &#8216;Sofreh Mahi'(flatfish): &#8220;The research model of this plane which staged a successful flight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1007,1034,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aviation","category-iran","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}