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2010-02-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

First Iranian-built destroyer launched in Gulf

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Posted by ryuge 2010-02-19 10:14|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Wow, "electronic radar". We're doomed...

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-19 10:28|| 2010-02-19 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 ...it was equipped with torpedoes and electronic radar.

Sounds like it was built to interdict the oil shipping lanes.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-02-19 10:39|| 2010-02-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, you do have to admit that it beats the older audio kind.

Posted by Kelly 2010-02-19 10:39|| 2010-02-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 1500 tonnes? That's not a destroyer. Maybe a destroyer-escort, or a frigate, or perhaps a corvette.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-19 10:47|| 2010-02-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It would make a good life boat.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-19 11:29|| 2010-02-19 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn! It's even smaller then we thought!

Posted by tu3031 2010-02-19 11:42|| 2010-02-19 11:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Q. Where will it go, and what will it do?

A. Not far, and not much.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-02-19 11:54|| 2010-02-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 So it doesn't have a helicopter deck but it has an aft swimming pool. Nice.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-19 12:51|| 2010-02-19 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Harpoon...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-02-19 12:55|| 2010-02-19 12:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Now let's be fair...it's only about 1400 tons displacement smaller than a WWII Fletcher....

(starts laughing)

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-02-19 14:16|| 2010-02-19 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 If that row boat is still afloat next Monday our boys on the inside are not doing their job.

Can we arrange for some "tragic accident" that sends this punt to the bottom of the Straits?

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-02-19 15:15|| 2010-02-19 15:15|| Front Page Top

#12 We call them Coast Guard Cutters.

Posted by ed 2010-02-19 15:56|| 2010-02-19 15:56|| Front Page Top

#13 "Ok, ok, take it easy you guys. If anybody can get that boat going it's Tinker."

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-19 16:00|| 2010-02-19 16:00|| Front Page Top

#14
No one at Reuters knows the difference between a destroyer and a frigate I guess.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-02-19 16:19|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-02-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#15 No one at Reuters knows the difference between a destroyer and a frigate I guess.

Thats because its a corvette :)

Seriously its 1400 which is waaaaaay under the frigate class size of usually at least 2000 tons and its under 100 meters in length. Corvette it is.

Oh and its based off the Vosper Mk 5 ones they already got in service:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE3-5/Fleet/alihaider-alvand.jpg

Posted by Valentine 2010-02-19 19:13|| 2010-02-19 19:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Mind you, the Vospers they're based off are classified as "light patrol frigates" but realistically they are more like corvettes.

Posted by Valentine 2010-02-19 19:14|| 2010-02-19 19:14|| Front Page Top

#17 little-known fact: Jamaran is Farsi for Stingray

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-19 19:32|| 2010-02-19 19:32|| Front Page Top

#18 It weighs less than the USS Constitution.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-02-19 19:38|| 2010-02-19 19:38|| Front Page Top

#19 And it might cost less than $1 billion. And it might be effective fighting pirates.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-19 19:58|| 2010-02-19 19:58|| Front Page Top

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