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New vessels joined the fleet of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on January 6, including a radar-evading warship, speedboats and corvettes equipped with a range of missiles.
In a ceremony at Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the IRGC Navy took delivery of an advanced warship, named after Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) who was killed alongside Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani in a United States drone strike near Baghdad four years ago.
IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri said the new warship has an endurance of 14 days and can cruise within a radius of 2,000 nautical miles.
The Abu Mahdi warship, which is powered by four propulsive engines and can evade radar detection, can stay afloat under Force Six conditions and carry out naval missions under Force Five conditions thanks to its advanced catamaran design, the commander said.
The Force Six in the sea is defined as the weather conditions in which the wind speed is between 39-49 km per hour and the wave height reaches 4 meters.
Other vessels and weapons that entered service with the IRGC Navy during the ceremony included dozens of Tareq-class and Ashura-class armed with rockets, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes as well as a hundred ground-base multiple rocket launchers.
The ceremony was also attended by IRGC commander Major General Hossein Salami, who said that Iran’s “enemies” should keep their distance, otherwise they will face “a powerful reaction.”
“We need to defend our national interests wherever they extend,” Salami said in a televised speech. “It will be harmful for the enemy to be found near and at a half distance. They should stay away from this area.”
The Guards’ navy, he said , had made a “brilliant leap in its offensive and defensive powers” to challenge the world’s naval powers.
Salami’s remarks came amid high tensions in the Red Sea after a recent warning by the U.S. and its allies to the Iranian-backed Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, over their recent attacks on Israeli-affiliated ships. Earlier this week, an Iranian warship arrived near Yemen.
Iran has been working to improve the capabilities of its naval forces for the last few years in order to counter the growing presence of the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf and to expand its own naval operations in remote waters, including the Red Sea.
russia and china (sco) should match the military aid value that u.s. gives israel in hardware terms to iran, specifically integrated air defenses, radars, c4isr etc.
agree totally
russia and china are zionist countries just like the u.s.
amerikan moron
well the question stands why do they not match the western help.
why did the russians deny irans wich to get modern air defences so long?
its a pertinent question. i suspect the russians don’t want the syrians to shoot down israeli jets using their aa weapons. they probably don’t want to antagonize and alienate the russian israelis whom i suspect still love mother russia and are supportive of her against ukraine. israel has not been supportive of ukraine or zelensky in part due to the russians of whom there are milliins in israel. you also have to have regard to dual citizenship russians, for eg, abramovich who support putin.
put the drugs down.
israel is blind, deaf and stupid on the diplomatic front. on the war front, the very same.
they are “god chosen people”… what did you think would happen when you brainwash them to really believe that lol.
why, my dears, don’t you extend to the mediterranean sea and hunt down all the warmongering europeans, english, americans, zionists, etc and clean up this filthy lake?
maybe because u used “why, my dears”…
sabias palabras
impressive array of iranian military hardware. the zio–nazi heimy heeby jew kike yid bedbugs and their whores in washington, dc should heed the irgc commander’s warning – or be humiliated!
a lot of saber rattling but the only response to israel pounding palestinians to rubble are a few houthi drones in the red sea and mortars fired by hezbollah?
since the irgc is a designated terrorist organization, i wonder what would the biden administration do if irgc vessels were to transit the mandeb strait and patrol the red sea to prevent acts of piracy, and in doing so came very close to ships taking part in operation prosperity guardian. i bet they would chicken out like they’re chickening out with the houthis.
what is the purpose of the tiny helipad painting on the deck? with all the stuff in the way, even a tiny heli would have a hard time landing.
it’s not a helopad is a bullseye.😁
carlito the jackass has spoken…
i was hoping for a more intelligent reply.
that ain’t no helipad……lol……that’s the door of the vls air defense system.
my taliban pimp send jens used diapers in nursing home
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piggy 🐖salami🐖 warns of a powerful reaction – muahahaha hahaha haha 😆😆😆
us weapons are made to serve one purpose; to provide profits for the military industrial complex. iran can’t afford this nonsense. its existence is on the line so it has to have weapons it can afford that actually work.
sanction on russia, china and iran works…
the funniest thing in the last years was when they removed some of iran sanctions – iran gdp grow so fast the whole western world (+israel and wahhabis) piss themselves.
iran and turkey were the main powerhouse in the middle east for ever, that is just a fact. like how russia is the powerhouse in eastern europe – germany western europe – china in asia. you can’t downplay the powers of these countries.
iran will send a swarm till one of them or several sink what ever zionist jews and americans have.