Iranian Navy frigate Sahand The ship capsized while being repaired and sank in the port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday, two days after it was rebalanced in a last-ditch effort to save it.
Iris Sahand Iranian latest And cutting edge warships, MadgeLaunched in 2018, it has been used extensively upgrade In 2021, the radar and air defense missiles will be upgraded, and the anti-ship missile capacity will be doubled.
of Madge The class is based on the British Vosper Mark 5 design, which dates back to the mid-1960s. Supplied Iran had a large fleet of such vessels before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, whose original armament included anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, torpedo launchers, and missiles for attacking air and surface targets.
Iran Madge The frigates are modern versions of the original designs, with narrower, more steeply angled hulls intended to reduce their radar signature.
These factors combine to Sahand The vessel was too narrow and too loaded with heavy weaponry, posing a risk of capsizing. Sahand was Reportedly It carries far more weaponry than other ships of its class. The ship could make a symbolic voyage to Russia to take part in a naval parade in 2021, but not before being upgraded and fitted with more weaponry.
Local media in Hormozgan province published photos of the light frigate Iris Sahand, which capsized in the port of Bandar Abbas.
Sahand has acquired new weapons and sensors in recent years. pic.twitter.com/q3QyCLfH7M
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Western military analysts believe Iran is using relatively stealthy ships such as the IRIS. Sahand To help Yemen’s Houthi terrorists attack commercial shipping with drones and missiles.
According to Iranian state media, Sahand The ship had been anchored in Bandar Abbas to undergo “repairs” for unclear reasons. On Sunday, it “lost its balance due to taking on water”, listing more than 90 degrees to port and becoming partially submerged.
Salt water wreaks havoc on sensitive electronic equipment even on civilian ships, leading to ships being scrapped after similar incidents. Sahand The attempt to rebalance the ship failed and the frigate was lost, state media reported on Tuesday.
” Sahand “The warship, which had struggled to regain its balance on the water on Monday, sank after ropes holding the vessel snapped,” Iran’s Nour News news agency reported. Several minor injuries were reported in the accident.
The Iranian Navy has a long history of serious accidents, including one involving another frigate. Madge Class, IRIS Damavand, Which In 2018, it ran aground on a seawall, capsized and sank.
Another similar frigate, IRIS Taraie, actually Suffered of The exact same fate As Sahand In December 2021, it capsized and sank while anchored in Bandar Abbas. Taraie It sank in the harbour before it could be formally commissioned.
The opposition-run Iran International News website said on Tuesday: Quote The unnamed “security analyst” Sahand “It may have been sunk by an Israeli cyber attack as the shadow war between the two hostile nations continues.”
The ship that sank on Tuesday was actually Iran’s second frigate. Sahand. The first one is sent To the bottom It was carried out by the US Navy in April 1988 as part of Operation Praying Mantis, a retaliatory operation against Iranian attacks. Critically Damaged US missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts Comes with landmines.
The US Navy is the original Sahand In America’s first surface-to-surface combat since World War II, the ship fired multiple Harpoon missiles, detonating an munitions storehouse and killing all 45 crew members.
