In July 2021 the Iranian Navy put the fourth Moudge (Mowj) class frigate, the Dena, into service The latest of these ships is the Dena and described as a Light Frigate These ships are actually heavily armed and haphazardly equipped corvettes Iran plan
ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Cold War Magic Revisited April 27, 2021: In early 202o Japan put a third Hibiki-class of Ocean Surveillance Ship into service. The first two entered service in 1991 and 1992. Why the long delay? It has to do with what these ships were designed for. Hibiki-class ships are catamaran (twin hull) designs that are 67 meters (214 feet) long 30 meter (99 feet wide) and manned by a crew of 40. There is room for a helicopter landing pad. These ships can remain at sea for 90 days at a time. They have a top speed of 20 kilometers an hour and can cover 7,000 kilometers per trip. Hibikis’ are equipped with an American made SURTASS (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System) that is designed to detect submarines in shallow or deep water. The twin-hull design provides a very wide ship and stability when slowly moving through rough seas towing the SURTASS apparatus.
Fourth Scorpene submarine likely to be inducted by year end
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Conventional diesel-electric Vela is undergoing advanced stages of sea trials
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Indian naval soldiers attend the commissioning ceremony of the INS third Scorpene-Class submarine Karanj in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021.
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Conventional diesel-electric Vela is undergoing advanced stages of sea trials
The 4th Scorpene conventional diesel-electric submarine Vela is expected to be commissioned into the Navy by year end while Vagsheer, 6th and last Scorpene submarine which is under construction, is expected to be launched into water by year end, according to a defence source.
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January 16, 2021: In Iran, the IRGC (Islamic Revolution Guard Corps) has its own “Navy of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution”. The main job of the IRGC is to protect the religious dictatorship from the Iranian armed forces and a growing number of angry Iranians. As a result, the IRGC Navy has about as many personnel 23,000), including marines and naval aviation as the Iranian Navy. Th IRGC force has about 40 large missile and torpedo boats (100-200 tons each) and over a thousand smaller craft, many of them just speedboats with dual outboard engines and machine-gun mounts. Now the IRGC Navy has been extending its reach by building oil tankers for sale to foreign customers. The IRGC owns a growing number of commercial firms and is increasingly accused of using market manipulation and intimidation to take sales from commercial firms. The IRGC has seized or stolen billions of dollars in assets over the last few decades an