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Iran navy launches domestically made destroyer
Agence France Presse (AFP) ^ | 02/19/2010

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corvette; destroyer; iran; navy
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (2nd right) tours the warship "Jamran" at an undisclosed location in southern Iran

1 posted on 02/19/2010 6:57:04 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


2 posted on 02/19/2010 6:58:34 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Incorrigible

Wouldn’t it be funny if it mysteriously sunk?


3 posted on 02/19/2010 6:59:49 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
can carry 120-140 personnel on board

I almost feel sorry for them.

4 posted on 02/19/2010 7:00:23 AM PST by EternalVigilance (TATBO - "Throw All The Bums Out")
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To: sukhoi-30mki
14,000 metric tons? That's half again as much displacement as a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, if true. I'll bet the article slipped a zero somewhere and they're actually 1,400 tons.

}:-)4

5 posted on 02/19/2010 7:02:01 AM PST by Moose4 (Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
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To: Incorrigible

When the U.S. Navy sinks her, they will have to make sure to do so in deep water to avoid that problem.


6 posted on 02/19/2010 7:03:57 AM PST by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
surface-to-air missiles with a top speed of up to 30 knots

Man, those are some sloooow missiles!

7 posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:37 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: sukhoi-30mki

14,000 tons BS... Maybe 1,500. Nothing but a little patrol craft. Or a target.


8 posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:51 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: EternalVigilance

Yeah that thing has to be a pain to row.


9 posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:54 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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?


10 posted on 02/19/2010 7:05:54 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Oh crap... they forgot to install the bilge pump...


11 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:01 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: sukhoi-30mki

There is no way that dingy displaces 14,000 tonnes.


12 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:07 AM PST by Antoninus (The RNC's dream ticket: Romney / Scozzafava 2012)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The rest of the ships that follow will all have glass bottoms so they can see this one.


13 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:14 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: dps.inspect

Oh crap... What are we gunna do now, WHAT are we guna dooooo.....


14 posted on 02/19/2010 7:07:13 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: sukhoi-30mki

On the first deployment, they’ll run it aground. Not much naval expertise in the Koran.


15 posted on 02/19/2010 7:07:37 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Pfft.

So they stuck a gun turret on a tug boat.

Big deal.


16 posted on 02/19/2010 7:07:50 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Oh Crap!!! Just Crap!!!


17 posted on 02/19/2010 7:08:03 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Target practice!


18 posted on 02/19/2010 7:08:30 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


19 posted on 02/19/2010 7:09:32 AM PST by EternalVigilance (TATBO - "Throw All The Bums Out")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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.


20 posted on 02/19/2010 7:09:41 AM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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