IRGC adds Abu Mahdi Muhandis warship, 100 fast-attack crafts to naval fleet
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has taken delivery of a range of domestically-designed and manufactured military equipment, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis warship that features sophisticated radar-evading technologies, and 100 fast-attack crafts.
They were inducted during a ceremony attended by IRCG chief Major General Hossein Salami, IRGC Navy chief Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, and other senior state and military officials in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas Saturday.
The Abu Mahdi Muhandis has been named after the former deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units who was assassinated along with top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike ordered by former President Donald Trump at Baghdad airport in early January 2020.
Speaking at the ceremony, Tangsiri said the warship has a naval endurance of 14 days, and can cruise within a radius of 2,000 nautical miles without being detected by enemy radars and reconnaissance systems.
It relies on four homegrown propulsion systems, and can stay afloat under force six conditions and carry out naval missions under force five conditions thanks to its advanced homegrown hull design, he added.
