Iran vs. Thunderbirds

by | Aug 22, 2010


Iran has just revealed its first “bomber drone”:

While this is obviously rather annoying, I can’t help noticing the resemblance between this machine and Thunderbird 2 from the famous British sci-fi puppet series:

Even the fake blue-sky-with-clouds background is almost identical.

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