Iran's Photoshop FAIL: 'New drone' actually Japanese university bird

Earlier this month Iran showed off its latest drone design, but on examination the photographs bear a striking similarity to those coming out of Japan's Chiba University. The connection was spotted by pilot, and blogger, Gary Mortimer, who felt the design of the KOKER-1 looked familiar but had to spend a few weeks remembering …

[John Deeb]

Uhmmm, any pointer to the original news item done by any official Iranian agency?

Many lazy news agencies just grab a picture from the Net as illustration. There might not be any actual image released. Actually posting pictures of any secret spy device would defeat the purpose. And surely they could draw a fantasy aircraft if pure deception was the intention...

This fail seems mostly upon the growing inability to source stories and illustration. Welcome to the Echo well.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Many lazy news agencies just grab a picture from the Net as illustration."

Then who shopped it, and why? If the lazy news agencies are lazy enough to filch a picture (which in this case would be quite bizarre) they're unlikely to be lazy enough to remove the windmills (but not change anything else).

What's strange is that it would have been considerably easier to get someone at an actual Iranian research institution to grab a picture from the same angle, and photoshop the vehicle *into* it. Nice solid background, easy lighting...

Deception is wasted on the deceptive.

[amanfromMars 1]

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This fail seems mostly upon the growing inability to source stories and illustration. Welcome to the Echo well. …. John Deeb Posted Wednesday 28th November 2012 22:53 GMT

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That was pretty nifty of the Iranians/Japanese/Dutch though ....... to have a simple picture paint thousands of words whenever the opposite is true and much easier ...... a few words paints thousands of pictures.

[Anonymous Coward]

iran caught using warez photoshop

That's a good enough reason to invade, isn't it?

[Amorous Cowherder]

Photoshop, the curse of the modern photo competition!

As the gentlemen who had the UK Landscape Photographer prize taken away from him recently, will testify.

[HappyCoder]

All your drone are belong to us.

[jeff42]

ohhh so according to this article that Iranian UAV which was hit by Israel and those fajr-5 Iranian rockets which fired by Palestinian all were Photoshops. This bloody Iranian are damn good in Photoshopping I think .