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Iranian Navy Displays Major Achievements, Overhauls Engines of Missile-Launching Warships

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The Iranian Navy accomplished overhauling the engines of Kaman-class missile-launching warships and displayed three other major achievements in a ceremony participated by Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi.
During the ceremony in the Southern province of Bushehr on Saturday, a 1,000-ton dry pool, and the first tower for synchronizing the weapon and fire control systems of missile-launching warships went into operation and an aerial refueling operation was conducted with RH mine-sweeper helicopters.

The dry pool is 70 meters in length, 28 meters in width and 3 meters in height and with a 1,000-ton capacity.

Also, the Navy experts and pilots managed, for the first time, to carry out aerial refueling with mine-sweeper RH helicopters.

Iranian fighter jets have been carrying out aerial refueling operations for more than four decades now, but this is the first time ever that aerial refueling of RH helicopters was done in Iran, giving the choppers a longer operational range.

The operation was done in the presence of the Iranian Army Commander, Major General Ataollah Salehi.

Iran has frequently staged its capability in air-to-air refilling of its fighter jets in different drills and other occasions.

The Navy experts also displayed the overhauled the engines of Kaman-class missile-launching warships in a show of domestic knowledge and capability.

On December 1, the Iranian Navy received 6 upgraded and overhauled missile-launching vessels in a ceremony participated by Major General Salehi and Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.

The vessels which were delivered to the Navy in the first Naval zone in Bandar Abbas port city, Southern Iran, included 2 Sirik-class and Kalat-class warships as well as 4 Fajr, Shams, Fath and Nour vessels.

All these vessels which were used in logistical and sea patrolling missions before had been equipped with surface-to-surface cruise missiles then.

Also, 2 anti-subsurface SH3D helicopters which were delivered to the Navy in the same ceremony along with an overhauled and upgraded SRN6 hovercraft, anti-surface AB212 helicopter and sea patrolling F27 aircraft had been equipped with Iran’s latest home-grown torpedoes.

The torpedoes were in recent days test-fired in Jask region, Southern Iran, and can be fired from submarines, surface vessels and helicopters.

Iran’s Navy late November unveiled three new home-made combat, simulator and radar systems in a ceremony participated by Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Abdolrahim Moussavi and Admiral Sayyari.

The sea-based ‘Samen’ surface fire control system is capable of tracking surface and air targets and can trace 40 surface and 1 air targets concurrently.

Also, a simulator system for divers’ exit from Midget submarines, which can also be used for exercising the Navy personnel’s emergency exit, was unveiled in the ceremony.

The last military equipment which was unveiled by the Iranian Navy was the S and X navigation radar project which is capable of being used in a network and can use data fusion.

It also can send information and data of the target, including direction, speed and distance, and connect to different navigation aid systems at the same time.

Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country’s military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.

Iran in June 2013 launched its overhauled and modernized destroyer named Bayandor in the Southern waters of the country in the presence of Major General Salehi and Admiral Sayyari.

Army officials said the Iranian Navy’s power of safeguarding the country’s territorial waters as well as maintaining security in regional and international waters will increase after the launch of Bayandor.

Overhauling the main engines, heat exchangers and fuel and oil systems as well as optimizing the monitoring control systems are among the measures adopted before launching the destroyer.

Navy experts have also mounted a fire control system for the destroyer’s weapons, a 76-mm and a 40-mm canons and a surface-to-surface Nour (Light) missile system on the destroyer.

In May 2013, Sayyari had declared that Iran could use the destroyer to carry out missions in international waters in the future.

He said the destroyer is fitted with state-of-the-art equipment such as missile, torpedo, artillery, sonar and other information and communication systems.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.

Iran’s first home-made destroyer, Jamaran, was launched in late February 2010. The Mowdge Class vessel has a displacement of around 14,000 tons and is equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare capabilities and is armed with a variety of anti-ship, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.

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