Posted on 02/21/2010 5:15:13 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Iranian Navy sent its first domestically built destroyer, the Jamaran, to sea today. Apparently this is the "destroyer" that Iran announced it was building three years ago. No further details were given at the time, or since. It was known that Iran had launched a clone of their British made Vosper Mk 5 frigates in 2002. That 1,500 ton ship has been fitting out ever since. Four Vosper frigates were delivered in the early 1970s, and at least three are still in service. Actually, these are considered "corvette" type ships, as destroyers tend to displace over 7,000 tons. The Iranians have a tendency to exaggerate. A lot. The Iranian navy could certainly use a new warship. Currently, the only major warships it has are three elderly British built frigates (1,540 tons each), and two U.S. built corvettes (1,100 tons each). There are about fifty smaller patrol craft, ten of them armed with Chinese anti-ship missiles. There are another few dozen mine warfare, amphibious and support ships. The three most powerful ships in the fleet are Russian Kilo class subs. There are several older North Korean mini-subs as well, some of them built in Iran. Or so it is said.
(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...
Ping.
So, the entire Iranian Navy could be taken out by one Los Angeles Class Attack sub.
Cool.
Any nation can take out these ships with anti-ship missiles.
Not much there for any real naval encounter. The Brits could take them out with ease as could almost any medium class power. We may soon get a chance to see the value of their navy if things go bad.
Its a possibility. I am very scared if Iran or North Korea gets their hands on one of these.
Don’t forget Venezuela.
They could use the ship to launch a nuclear attack against the US, thus ushering in the Coming of the Mahdi and the rule of Islam until all the Jews and Polytheists are purged from the earth. Yippy!
U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.
Newsmax/ Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008
“Another troubling group of tests involved Shahab-3 launches where the Iranians “detonated the warhead near apogee, not over the target area where the thing would eventually land, but at altitude,” Graham said. “Why would they do that?” Graham chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001. The commission examined the Iranian tests “and without too much effort connected the dots,” even though the U.S. intelligence community previously had failed to do so, Graham said.
“The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it,” he said. “And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.”
http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/iran-nuclear-plan/2008/07/29/id/324724
I agree.
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