Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy is converting two merchant container ships into vessels capable of carrying and launching combat drones against maritime or coastal targets. For now, Iran’s drone carriers are unlikely to pose a clear and present danger to the U.S., but they possess symbolic significance as a potential tool to defy American initiatives in the Middle East and respond to Israel’s attacks against Iran.
For the first time since 2020 Iran has been spotted, via commercial satellite photos, building a new major warship Iran is always building new small craft, some of them armed with anti-ship missiles but most of them much smaller and armed mostly with a
For the first time since 2020 Iran has been spotted, via commercial satellite photos, building a new major warship Iran is always building new small craft, some of them armed with anti-ship missiles but most of them much smaller and armed mostly with a
Although Tehran tends to exaggerate its naval achievements and blue-water capabilities, the heavy investments it has made in this sector are yielding regionally significant progress.