Posted on 12/01/2018 6:02:59 AM PST by BenLurkin
Sahand destroyer -- which can sustain voyages lasting five months without resupply -- joined Iran's regular navy at a base in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf.
The Sahand has a flight deck for helicopters, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and electronic warfare capabilities, state television reported.
"This vessel is the result of daring and creative design relying on the local technical knowledge of the Iranian Navy... and has been built with stealth capabilities," Rear-Admiral Alireza Sheikhi, head of the navy shipyards that built the destroyer, told the state news agency IRNA.
Iran launched its first locally made destroyer in 2010 as part of a programme to revamp its navy equipment which dates from before the 1979 Islamic revolution and is mostly US-made.
Iran has developed a large domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes that have barred it from importing many weapons. Separately, a naval commander said Sahand may be among warships that Iran plans to send on a mission to Venezuela soon.
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Well, at least obama can say he has a legacy now.
Would be sunk in less than ten minutes if it engaged with the US Navy.
Another one that can and should be sunk by the Americans.
Stealth?
Like the Chinese, they probably stole the good stuff from a Pentagon contractor.
Steath technology
Can only be seen with HD TAC Sunglasses.
Wow... Who needs enemies when you have Friends like this..? But, I suppose we've done worst...
...To pick up a load of cocaine...
I’d give it a 15 minute life-span against even a USN LCS (and they ain’t necessarily meant to be ship-to-ship combat vessels).
I’d give it 10 minutes against a USN Destroyer of any class.
It would be sunk before it was even in visual range against a USN Cruiser.
And in consultation with the Pentagon it may soon be fully modified to perform at least half the major capabilities of a submarine.
The shape, as depicted, is definitely not in the least bit stealty. If anything, counter stealthy. I don’t know who they think they are fooling. Literally anyone with a small boat radar could see that thing 10 nautical miles away. It would be a joke if it were in the least bit funny.
More likely a cruise ship for naughty senior Iranian officers to bugger young recruits on, definitely unsuited for modern warfare.
Just listen and you’ll hear the Call to Prayer
It's a cruise ship for senior Iranian officers. I would be willing to bet that that "phased array radar" on the center island never even radiates. It's a Potemkin warship.
I guess one just has to say something is stealthy...I see nothing about this ship that is so!!!
Give Iran a message short and sweet........take it out!
This thing would be sunk before it even saw a US ship!!!
If hostilities break out, the moment this ship set sail, along with anything else, from an Iranian harbor they would be sunk by a submarine that would have been sitting near that harbor.
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