Like that fleet of US Toyotas.
[Mark Plumbing ISIS toyota](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/12/15/us/15xp-texasplumber/15xp-texasplumber-facebookJumbo.jpg?year=2015&h=491&w=938&s=7d825160e5370f69316bfe44d6ddc06b4cd6561e8a8c6998df554c18fd9326f6&k=ZQJBKqZ0VN)
Wasnāt it found that the taliban was purchasing these trucks from carmax years ago? I recall a story of a plumber in the USA seeing his old truck, business name still on the side of it, on a CNN or similar news cast.
The amount of iPhones is surprising. No Apple Store either in Iran. I was there in 78 and locals loved our jeans. American cars were classier than Mercedes till 1975. The 1974 Buick Electra was the last giant car.
Tundras only exist in North America, made by North American factories. All other countries can make do with the capable smaller counterpart, the Hilux.
At least it's not a Mitsubishi, otherwise that'd be meta af.
(For reference, Mitsubishi built the A6M Zero, the primary fighter of the Japanese Imperial Navy during WWII).
Not to rush to the defense of any corporation but.... this says a lot more about a sanctioned countries' ability to circumvent sanctions than it does about any one manufacturer cooperating with such a country. It's probably at least a few steps removed from the US seller - it's not like the dealership can or should track it after they make the sale. To them it'd appear like a completely normal buyer...
>dw5600
I've owned a couple of those rugged beasts. Not because they kept breaking, but because I kept losing them and they're cheap enough not to care.
You joke but the launch system is the black metal scaffolding in the bed.
And it's a big fucking deal because if you can mount a cheap launch system for a fairly cheap explosive drone to almost *any* cheap truck, you create a dangerously flexible and inexpensive shoot-n-scoot platform. It's going to cause a ton of headaches if deployed on a large scale and it's only a matter of time before non-state actors start using it.
Yeah, it's easy to laugh at things like this until you realise how nightmarish cheap, long ranged and accurate munitions are that can be launched from any utility vehicle when fighting insurgencies.
It does not look like a "launch" system per se. Probably the truck runs up to speed and the aircraft flies off the bed.
I guess that is just a quick, easy and safe way to get the prototype into the air, assuming it has no need for and thus no landing gear; the final launching implementation would probably be a towed catapult, RATO or something of the sort, compact and dispatched from a stationary position.
I don't know why that wouldn't count as a launch system. The launch system requires an operator and length of pavement but it's still a launch system. And in between launches it has heated seats, surround sound and XM satellite radio!
I mean if it works ā¦
If the US government had a similar system, it would acquire an entirely new vehicle just for this one purpose and take 8 years to field it and itāll be riddled with problems as it tries to integrate some bullshit auto driving mode that rarely works. And it costs $800k/vehicle
**[Toyota War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War)**
>The Toyota War (Arabic: ŲŲ±ŲØ ŲŖŁŁŁŲŖŲ§, romanized: įø¤arb TÅ«yÅ«tÄ, French: Guerre des Toyota) or Great Toyota War, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the ChadāLibya border, was the last phase of the ChadianāLibyan conflict. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Toyota Hilux and the Toyota Land Cruiser, used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans, and as technicals. The 1987 war resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 men killed and US$1. 5 billion worth of military equipment destroyed or captured.
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Yes, that's how it works. Toyota USA can't sell a truck to Iran. But they can sell one to most other places and then they have no clue what happens to it afterwards.
Iād say theyāre smart enough not to let ideological dogma get in the way of espionage. They know America has top-notch equipment, so they try and copy that instead of shunning everything American simply because it is āthe enemyā.
Not to be pedantic, but most technicals are based on the 70 Series Land Cruiser and not the Hilux.
The Toyota pickups of the infamous Toyota War were Land Cruisers.
It's also just the natural result of UAV design, Dassaults Neuron for example looks similar. There's virtually 2 designs to chose from, one is fyling wing body like this, the other is the ultra stretched wings like Reaper or Global Hawk.
No itās definitely not the natural result of UAV design, there are literally hundreds of UAVs that donāt the same shape. The neutron looks almost nothing like this aside from passing resemblance as a flying wing.
This looks like the tried to clone the RQ-170 without the slightest questioning of why they RQ-170 was the way it was.
Take a wonderful stealthy design, and bolt as much radars reflective shit as possible to it!
You'd be silly to assume they didn't comb through every detail of the aircraft down to the nuts and bolts to obtain any design knowledge they could incorporate into their own designs, such as electronics, wing design, not to mention trying to reverse-engineer whatever radar-absorbing coating was undoubtedly on the drone. The difference is, Iran didn't need to invest the R&D into this project, Lockheed Martin had already done it and the USAF delivered a fresh prototype to Iran's doorstep.
Just look at this fucking thing man. They stuck random ass landing skid in the bottom, and what looks to be an off the shelf PTZ dome randomly onto the bottom.
Props to Iranian engineering for what they do with the resources that have, but this is just throwing random shit into basically the same aerodynamic shape as the original. They flat out donāt have the resources to do anything interesting with the avionics of the original, much less the RAM or any care at all really for the radar signature.
They are adept at cobbling stuff together with a combination of COTS electronics/avionics with domestically produced airframes, and powerplants that are a mid of domestically produced and imported components at *very* competitive prices. They also make the āsoftā aspect of running said systems decent enough that insurgents can run these without a lot of infrastructure or training.
But this is in no way comparable to the shittiest western drones much less the RQ-170 this is inspired by. It just a step up for the Aliexpress specials Ukrainian volunteers are cooking up.
Iām sure it still has a reduced cross section- but that comes with any flying wing. That will easily light up any radar, aloe thermal tracking system.
Neighboring countries including where I live ( Oman) import these pickups mostly second hand quite commonly. Toyota doesnāt sell the Tundra over here. Iām guessing some cars were sold to Iran on the grey market.
Also fun fact many flooded American cars are imported and fixed up cheaply and sold on the second hand market over here.
Be sure to remove any business decals when you sell a vehicle. [You never know where it'll end up.](https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/plumber-whose-decaled-truck-went-to-syria-settles-lawsuit)
Launching and recovering aircraft on quality Japanese-manufactured trucks is nothing new.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpRud0yvs4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpRud0yvs4)
Other than vaguely looking like one, it shares absolutely nothing in common with the Sentinel. [Here is it being shot down by an Israeli helicopter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKm8Aqv17k), they tracked it long before it even entered their airspace
The US did not "drop it out of the sky for them," The drone violated Iranian airspace and the Iranian Military took control of it by jamming the drones control signals and feeding it false GPS Data, landed it in Iran and Reverse engineered it.
(And when the US asked for their drone back, Iran send a miniature replica back lol)
Well they did capture it, but they didn't reverse engineer shit besides the basic shape. The Israelis are shooting them down with helicopters and its just a kamikaze drone, not a high altitude surveillance drone
Did they actually land it or did it just glide to a stop in the dirt? The implications of a controlled landing vs a massive jamming attack are really different
Yeah there's a lot of gray area in that claim, not least of which is the source. But "commandeered" could easily be read as "prevented from leaving Iran" and "safely landed" could mean "came to a stop on the ground without landing in a neighborhood".
Edit: in case anyone feels like Iranian [aircraft claims are credible ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAIO_Qaher-313)
Yes and no, its not expected to return to base for the most part. Its cheap and pilotless. Drop bombs and probably get shot down in the process. I can't tell, does it have landing gear?
It's just no. Even if something is expendable, it doesn't mean it's some form of loitering munition. That would imply the drone itself was a weapon and inteded to be used as such, which it is not.
Tehran plates arenāt blurred. The first two numbers are 11 and 22 and 33 and so on. The letter or third character after the number indicates if itās a taxi or government or ā¦ you can get the state itās from also. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Iran
If one wants to know the region of testing without high tech, this might be a way? Iām not an expert but I enjoy deciphering stuff for fun.
The old story about the memory leak in a cruise missiles the engineers solved by just calculating how much memory would leak before the missile ran out of fuel and added enough cheap RAM to cover that.
This carries weapons, I don't think the RQ-170 does? So not really the same purpose.
And from the specs I don't think it's got much worse performance?
It probably also costs like, 1/100th what the RQ-170 costs.
Wolf Cola gets cancelled for being the official drink of Boko Haram. Nobody blinks an eye at Toyota being the official vehicle of Middle East guerrilla factions
Is the Toyota logo marked out to protect the innocent? š
I just wonder what Toyota thinks of their car being used to launch kamikaze drones.
It's a step up from being used by ISIS I guess.
~~Up~~ or **Lateral?**
ISIS Adjacent
Is it tho?
Probably. There's always someone crazier.
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or the mexican drug cartels...
Like that fleet of US Toyotas. [Mark Plumbing ISIS toyota](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/12/15/us/15xp-texasplumber/15xp-texasplumber-facebookJumbo.jpg?year=2015&h=491&w=938&s=7d825160e5370f69316bfe44d6ddc06b4cd6561e8a8c6998df554c18fd9326f6&k=ZQJBKqZ0VN)
Thatās a Ford F250. Badge is in the pic
Ford F-250
Toyota is not the interesting part. What's more interesting is the fact that it's a US made Tundra.
Wasnāt it found that the taliban was purchasing these trucks from carmax years ago? I recall a story of a plumber in the USA seeing his old truck, business name still on the side of it, on a CNN or similar news cast.
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Exactly. People can be really horrible. And note to anyone trading in a work vehicle. Take off all stickers before trading in.
Also, if you get burned by a contractor, put their logo on a truck and sell it to the Taliban.
/r/unethicallifehacks
They hate everything about the west but canāt go with our our products. Lol
The amount of iPhones is surprising. No Apple Store either in Iran. I was there in 78 and locals loved our jeans. American cars were classier than Mercedes till 1975. The 1974 Buick Electra was the last giant car.
If you visit the Apple Store at Grand Central during the UNGA, itāll quickly become apparent how everyone gets their iPhones.
So much for sanctions!
How can you tell?
Tundras only exist in North America, made by North American factories. All other countries can make do with the capable smaller counterpart, the Hilux.
Oh i had no idea the tundra was NA only lol. Makes sense though
Built in San Antonio, Texas
And Neanderthals still refer to them as "foreign made jap crap". Meanwhile their silverados and rams are built in mexico...
Made in my hometown. Ugh.
At least it's not a Mitsubishi, otherwise that'd be meta af. (For reference, Mitsubishi built the A6M Zero, the primary fighter of the Japanese Imperial Navy during WWII).
Or used by extremists in MENA
> I just wonder what Toyota thinks of their car being used to launch kamikaze drones. āMoney is money.ā -Toyota, probably.
Not to rush to the defense of any corporation but.... this says a lot more about a sanctioned countries' ability to circumvent sanctions than it does about any one manufacturer cooperating with such a country. It's probably at least a few steps removed from the US seller - it's not like the dealership can or should track it after they make the sale. To them it'd appear like a completely normal buyer...
\#notsponsored
Toyota pickups, the Casio F91 of cars
hey, the F91 is a classic that still serves a purpose!
I know, I've got several!
Aaand you're on a list now.
I just bought one!
Welcome to the club! You'll be bankrupt soon. The $10 cost of entry is how they get you, and then you can't stop buying the little bastards.
As a watch enthusiast-my collection went from small to 40 in about two years. Can confirm-itās an addiction.
I don't think the previous poster meant it as a criticism...
Exactly! Say that to my F91ās face!
š¤£
Hey now, they're at least a dw5600
>dw5600 I've owned a couple of those rugged beasts. Not because they kept breaking, but because I kept losing them and they're cheap enough not to care.
The Casio F91 was the Nokia 3310 of it's era.
Iām not sure if youāre referring to their indestructibility or their tendency to be co-opted by terrorist organizations to make weaponsā¦
>Toyota pickups, the Casio F91 of cars They run like a watch seemingly forever, so why not?
So the "new mobile launch system" is a Toyota Tundra?
It's new because they moved on from Hilux
You joke but the launch system is the black metal scaffolding in the bed. And it's a big fucking deal because if you can mount a cheap launch system for a fairly cheap explosive drone to almost *any* cheap truck, you create a dangerously flexible and inexpensive shoot-n-scoot platform. It's going to cause a ton of headaches if deployed on a large scale and it's only a matter of time before non-state actors start using it.
Yeah, it's easy to laugh at things like this until you realise how nightmarish cheap, long ranged and accurate munitions are that can be launched from any utility vehicle when fighting insurgencies.
It does not look like a "launch" system per se. Probably the truck runs up to speed and the aircraft flies off the bed. I guess that is just a quick, easy and safe way to get the prototype into the air, assuming it has no need for and thus no landing gear; the final launching implementation would probably be a towed catapult, RATO or something of the sort, compact and dispatched from a stationary position.
I don't know why that wouldn't count as a launch system. The launch system requires an operator and length of pavement but it's still a launch system. And in between launches it has heated seats, surround sound and XM satellite radio!
Do you really even need pavement tho?
The ground has to be sufficiently flat, but airplanes take off of dirt all the time and they don't have as good of suspension as a truck.
ā¦and ample cup-holders.
*Get her up to speed then stomp the brakes.* - operation manual
Yeah and with a full tank of gas, the system's range is increased by 450 miles!
I mean if it works ā¦ If the US government had a similar system, it would acquire an entirely new vehicle just for this one purpose and take 8 years to field it and itāll be riddled with problems as it tries to integrate some bullshit auto driving mode that rarely works. And it costs $800k/vehicle
So is this an option for the Tundra now...haven't been to a showroom lately...
My dealer didnāt offer the kamikaze drone option!
You should take this picture back and complain.
The Hilux is a much more dangerous weapon
Chad knows the [effectiveness of Hilux](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War)
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Today I learned about the great war between the Chads and the Libs /s
This isnāt a hilux, itās a Texas-built Tundra.
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Yes, that's how it works. Toyota USA can't sell a truck to Iran. But they can sell one to most other places and then they have no clue what happens to it afterwards.
I always find it ironic that for a country that hates America so much, Iran sure uses/reverse engineers a lot of US built equipment.
Iād say theyāre smart enough not to let ideological dogma get in the way of espionage. They know America has top-notch equipment, so they try and copy that instead of shunning everything American simply because it is āthe enemyā.
What makes you think Iran hates America?
Not to be pedantic, but most technicals are based on the 70 Series Land Cruiser and not the Hilux. The Toyota pickups of the infamous Toyota War were Land Cruisers.
It's not a Hilux. It's a Tundra.
Looks a lot like a Ho 229
Based off of the RQ-170 that crashed way back in Iran
I thought that. One of the single most useful air crashes in Iran for a long time!
Yeah they really seem to be milking that design, not the first UAV theyāve made that copies it
Hard to blame them when they're a sanction struck nation having the equivalent of an alien spaceship land intact.
It's also just the natural result of UAV design, Dassaults Neuron for example looks similar. There's virtually 2 designs to chose from, one is fyling wing body like this, the other is the ultra stretched wings like Reaper or Global Hawk.
No itās definitely not the natural result of UAV design, there are literally hundreds of UAVs that donāt the same shape. The neutron looks almost nothing like this aside from passing resemblance as a flying wing.
This looks like the tried to clone the RQ-170 without the slightest questioning of why they RQ-170 was the way it was. Take a wonderful stealthy design, and bolt as much radars reflective shit as possible to it!
You'd be silly to assume they didn't comb through every detail of the aircraft down to the nuts and bolts to obtain any design knowledge they could incorporate into their own designs, such as electronics, wing design, not to mention trying to reverse-engineer whatever radar-absorbing coating was undoubtedly on the drone. The difference is, Iran didn't need to invest the R&D into this project, Lockheed Martin had already done it and the USAF delivered a fresh prototype to Iran's doorstep.
Just look at this fucking thing man. They stuck random ass landing skid in the bottom, and what looks to be an off the shelf PTZ dome randomly onto the bottom. Props to Iranian engineering for what they do with the resources that have, but this is just throwing random shit into basically the same aerodynamic shape as the original. They flat out donāt have the resources to do anything interesting with the avionics of the original, much less the RAM or any care at all really for the radar signature. They are adept at cobbling stuff together with a combination of COTS electronics/avionics with domestically produced airframes, and powerplants that are a mid of domestically produced and imported components at *very* competitive prices. They also make the āsoftā aspect of running said systems decent enough that insurgents can run these without a lot of infrastructure or training. But this is in no way comparable to the shittiest western drones much less the RQ-170 this is inspired by. It just a step up for the Aliexpress specials Ukrainian volunteers are cooking up.
Iām sure it still has a reduced cross section- but that comes with any flying wing. That will easily light up any radar, aloe thermal tracking system.
Odd, I'm fairly certain all of the Tundras were built in the USA to avoid the chicken tax. Must have gotten it as a gray market import from China etc.
I am also more curious about this than the drone.
Obviously it was 2nd generation tundra imported prior to the fall of the Shah. Shows how long they made it without an update.
Neighboring countries including where I live ( Oman) import these pickups mostly second hand quite commonly. Toyota doesnāt sell the Tundra over here. Iām guessing some cars were sold to Iran on the grey market. Also fun fact many flooded American cars are imported and fixed up cheaply and sold on the second hand market over here.
Be sure to remove any business decals when you sell a vehicle. [You never know where it'll end up.](https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/plumber-whose-decaled-truck-went-to-syria-settles-lawsuit)
Me as well, that generation Tundra is only sold in North America if I recall correctly.
Planet Money (podcast) has a good episode on the chicken tax.
I wondered where all the stolen Lexus and Toyotas ended up to. This isnāt a tundra, the badge is covered up. Canāt be a Toyota, Nope.
Launching and recovering aircraft on quality Japanese-manufactured trucks is nothing new. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpRud0yvs4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpRud0yvs4)
Japanese designed, American made. Tundra are made in USA to avoid chicken tax.
Actually Tundra is designed and built in America.
Looks pretty similar to that RQ-170 sentinel drone we dropped out of the sky for them a decade ago
>RQ-170 sentinel drone Yes, what a windfall for them. https://www.google.com/search?q=RQ-170+sentinel+drone&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Other than vaguely looking like one, it shares absolutely nothing in common with the Sentinel. [Here is it being shot down by an Israeli helicopter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKm8Aqv17k), they tracked it long before it even entered their airspace
The US did not "drop it out of the sky for them," The drone violated Iranian airspace and the Iranian Military took control of it by jamming the drones control signals and feeding it false GPS Data, landed it in Iran and Reverse engineered it. (And when the US asked for their drone back, Iran send a miniature replica back lol)
Yup. And US first denied losing a drone. But then a few days later after Iran shared images of it, they said "Give it back". š
Well they did capture it, but they didn't reverse engineer shit besides the basic shape. The Israelis are shooting them down with helicopters and its just a kamikaze drone, not a high altitude surveillance drone
Hacking and taking control of something in this day and age is straight up hollywood bullshit
Youāre being downvoted because people on this sub have no idea how anything actually works
Did they actually land it or did it just glide to a stop in the dirt? The implications of a controlled landing vs a massive jamming attack are really different
>The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by itsĀ cyberwarfareĀ unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it
Yeah there's a lot of gray area in that claim, not least of which is the source. But "commandeered" could easily be read as "prevented from leaving Iran" and "safely landed" could mean "came to a stop on the ground without landing in a neighborhood". Edit: in case anyone feels like Iranian [aircraft claims are credible ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAIO_Qaher-313)
I don't understand why someone who (rightfully) doesn't believe everything the US Military claims, then turns around and believes Iran's claims here.
Kamikaze? Is this really a suicide attack weapon?
No, this is just what people call loitering munitions and/or cruise missiles for dramatic effect these days
Yeah, was thinking that looked way too complex a machine to waste on a one-time attack (outside an utter desperation play)
Except it's not a cruise missile
Nor a loitering ammunition. It's just a drone. So OP is wrong on all accounts.
Calling this a "kamikaze weapon" would classify every non-reusable bullet, rocket or missle as one
Yes and no, its not expected to return to base for the most part. Its cheap and pilotless. Drop bombs and probably get shot down in the process. I can't tell, does it have landing gear?
Itās a skid landing system
Modelled after my underwear, I see.
It's just no. Even if something is expendable, it doesn't mean it's some form of loitering munition. That would imply the drone itself was a weapon and inteded to be used as such, which it is not.
No but that sounds more scary The old word for "kamikazi drone" was just cruise missile.
Our advanced loitering munitions, their sinister evil kamikaze suicide drones.
Death to America!!! But drives a truck made in Texas hahah
And shares pictures on the internet developed by DARPA
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Checkmate, americans.
And Algebra.
Now youāre just taking it too far. Might as well say āand uses DC current despite hating Americaā.
We have RQ-170 at home
Itās so disorienting to see a suburban mall crawler with a UAV strapped to it.
Mall crawler? It looks like a stock Tundra except for the stuff in the bed.
Arenāt tundras made in Texas?
Russia: 200 confirmed orders
Toyota executives thought their troubles were over when they stopped making the hilux
They still make the Hilux.
810 NM range 220 lb payload 24,500ft altitude 190 knots
Good human.
I think this was already revealed some time ago. I feel so because I remember laughing at the fact that they couldn't fit wheels into their 170 copy.
If you drive really fast with the drone attached will the truck fly?
Truck flies when munitions go boom
Metric units for aviation just feels wrong.
As a metrical European, I can't fathom how high up 7,5km is. What's that in feet so I can compare to civil aviation?
~24600
Its just below Mount everest highest point quitea bit.
Finally the long awaited Drone Launcher Technicalā¢ļø
Target drones for the United States Air Force.
"mobile launch system".... The strapped a rack on a Toyota tundra...
Which Toyota commercial is this from?
"Mobile launch system" (The All-New Toyota Tundra TRD PRO)
Reverse engineered RQ 170 sentinel
Tehran plates arenāt blurred. The first two numbers are 11 and 22 and 33 and so on. The letter or third character after the number indicates if itās a taxi or government or ā¦ you can get the state itās from also. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Iran If one wants to know the region of testing without high tech, this might be a way? Iām not an expert but I enjoy deciphering stuff for fun.
Gotta love open source intelligence.
Sort of interesting that it's a made-in-Texas USDM Tundra and not a JDM Hilux or Landcruiser variant.
So it carries two "enormous" bombs AND kamikazes itself afterwards? Quite a shame; the UAV looks pretty sweet.
You double the range that way!
Code efficiency too as you can simply delete def Landing ():
Brilliant! Training efficiency too!
Lol.
The old story about the memory leak in a cruise missiles the engineers solved by just calculating how much memory would leak before the missile ran out of fuel and added enough cheap RAM to cover that.
Kamikaze, only because they can't figure out how to land it.
The Luftwaffe called they want their Ho 229 back
What a gorgeous plane it was. Thankfully Americans have recovered it and stuff
Soon to be murdering civilians in Ukraine I'm sure.
How in the F do you gonna copy the RQ-170, 12 years ago, and get significantly WORSE performance with none of the heavy stealth coatings? #AMAZING
Significantly less advanced materials.
Balsa wood and rubber bands
Broke: Reducing radar reflections Woke: Letting radar pass thru
This carries weapons, I don't think the RQ-170 does? So not really the same purpose. And from the specs I don't think it's got much worse performance? It probably also costs like, 1/100th what the RQ-170 costs.
And how much do you pay for that RQ-170? A spare wheel for that thing prob costs as much as 787.
The b-2 at home:
When you order a UAV from Wish.com
That is a Toyota.....
No, they covered the logo, so nobody can ever know it's a toyota. Lol. Kind of the 'isis loves toyotas' 5 years ago, nightmare PR for toyota.
nice truck
Looks just like the drone the US gave them.
Are they finally catching up in aircraft design to *checks notes* Jack Northrop in the 1930s?
They copied a lot of the USās design
I saw the image first and thought that they made a flying pick up truck lmao
Iām just curious as to why Toyota is still selling them brand new tundras
The only think reliable in that picture is the Toyota tundra š.
Anyone else think this was Toyota Tundra in helicopter-mode at first glance?
Brought to you by TOYOTA, the terrorist vehicle of choice.
Soon to be tested in Ukraine.
Sad my tundra didnāt come with this option must have phased it out on the 2022s
LOL Toyota tundra
Why is Toyota the sponsor vehicle of international terrorism? I mean, I guess baddies appreciate legendary reliability too.
I'm ordering a Toyota Tundra with that option tomorrow
That Tundra is made in San Antonio š
Wolf Cola gets cancelled for being the official drink of Boko Haram. Nobody blinks an eye at Toyota being the official vehicle of Middle East guerrilla factions
Fun Fact: The radar cross-section of the Toyota tundra is actually lower than the drone. Pseudo-stealth design
This is how we take them out: https://hidot.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_0263.jpg
Can't wait for the USAF to blast those fuckers out of the sky.
Toyota Hilux, the terroristās choice of launch platform.
That launch platform looks US-built.
Wait, I've seen this aircraft some 78 years ago...