Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (2nd right) tours the warship "Jamran" at an undisclosed location in southern Iran
Posted on 02/19/2010 6:57:03 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Iran navy launches domestically made destroyer
(AFP) – 3 hours ago
TEHRAN — Iran's navy on Friday has launched in the Gulf its first domestically made destroyer in a ceremony attend by the supreme leader and the commander-in-chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the media reported.
"Iran's navy on Friday took the delivery of the first indigenously designed and developed guided missile destroyer "Jamaran" in the Persian Gulf," Iran's English-language Press TV reported.
The vessel has a displacement of around 14,000 tonnes and is equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare capabilities, the report said.
"Jamaran, a multi-mission destroyer, can carry 120-140 personnel on board and is armed with a variety of anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles with a top speed of up to 30 knots and has a helipad," the report added. "The vessel has also been equipped with torpedoes and modern naval cannons."
State television also showed footage of the vessel and the ceremony at which it was launched by Khamenei flanked by the top Iranian military commanders.
Much of Iran's naval equipment dates from before the 1979 Islamic revolution and is US made. Since the revolution, Tehran has purchased a number of Russian-made submarines.
In the past year Iranian navy has carried out a number of missions in the Gulf of Aden and offshore Somalia where it was commissioned to escort Iranian merchant ships and oil tankers.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (2nd right) tours the warship "Jamran" at an undisclosed location in southern Iran
I will be a pain to have to dig this thing off the bottom of the Gulf so it doesn’t interfere with commercial shipping traffic.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it mysteriously sunk?
I almost feel sorry for them.
}:-)4
When the U.S. Navy sinks her, they will have to make sure to do so in deep water to avoid that problem.
Man, those are some sloooow missiles!
14,000 tons BS... Maybe 1,500. Nothing but a little patrol craft. Or a target.
Yeah that thing has to be a pain to row.
Is it me, or is that an OTO-Melara 76mm?!?
Did they boost it off of some other ship, reverse-engineer their own domestically-produced variant, or manage to sneak it in past the various embargos?
Oh crap... they forgot to install the bilge pump...
There is no way that dingy displaces 14,000 tonnes.
The rest of the ships that follow will all have glass bottoms so they can see this one.
Oh crap... What are we gunna do now, WHAT are we guna dooooo.....
On the first deployment, they’ll run it aground. Not much naval expertise in the Koran.
Pfft.
So they stuck a gun turret on a tug boat.
Big deal.
Oh Crap!!! Just Crap!!!
Target practice!
A) We know exactly where it is, down to the square meters.
B) It would not exist within the hour if we wanted it not to exist.
Hmmm. Fourteen thousand tons is not a “destroyer.” Its a cruiser.
Of course, most of our recent “destroyers” have been cruisers, too...
I guess they’re building USN-style destroyers.
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