November 01-2013
The military released a video last week proudly displaying what the accompanying audio described as another Iranian-designed drone of sterling qualities named the Ra’ad (Thunder) 85. As the camera panned around the aircraft, however, it showed more than one section held together with duct tape. There was no explanation of how the craft could survive high-speed flight with duct tape. The audio described the craft as a drone, but the description showed it was really a cruise missile, meant to crash into a target. A drone is a pilotless aircraft. An attack drone carries missiles and returns to its base after firing them. The regime presumably prefers to call this cruise missile a drone because drones are all the rage these days with dozens of countries building them and showing them off to their publics.
