Posted on 11/27/2010 9:41:16 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Iran Makes First Mobile Simulator for Home-Made Submarines
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy unveiled the first sample of its newly produced mobile simulators for its Tareq class submarines.
"For the first time in the country Iranian experts and scientists have been able to produce a mobile simulator for Tareq class submarine in a project called 'Shabahat' (Similarity)," Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said at the ceremony to unveil the simulator.
"The simulator has a 3 degree freedom of movement and is used for exercising diving and ascending as well as checking damage to the submarine," he noted.
The commander added that 16 scenarios have been designed and programmed for the simulator, which are now used in the subsurface brigade of the first naval zone.
He expressed the hope that new simulators would be built for Qadir class submarines by the end of the current Iranian year (ends on March 20, 2011).
A senior Iranian commander has lately announced that the country has gained self-sufficiency in manufacturing simulators, adding that the country now possesses more than 800 home-made simulators.
"At present more than 800 simulators have been produced and put into operation by the Defense Ministry," Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force for Coordination Affairs General Mohammad Hassan Baqeri said in September.
Baqeri said Iran used to import these systems from the foreign countries, including the US and Britain, while it is now among the few countries which own the technical know-how for building them.
They’d better hope no one is listening if they plan on having calls to prayer announced while they are submerged.
Tareq means “torpedo bait”
Oh goodie! Just in time for our EF-18 “simulators” to practice on so our new P-8A “simulators” can seek and destroy them!
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/EF-18_Growler
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/p8a/index.html
My son’s Citadel roommate is getting ready to deploy as a EWO in the “ Growler” .. he loves that thing ....
And it runs on quarters!
” “The simulator has a 3 degree freedom of movement and is used for exercising diving and ascending as well as checking damage to the submarine,” he noted. “
Is it plumbed for salt water to realistically simulate picking up a US torpedo ?
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