Iran to unveil new 500 ton submarine

[Kunal Biswas]

Iran to unveil new 500 ton submarine by August

Iran's Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Eslami announces plans to unveil the first indigenous submarine within the next few months. He added that the final stages of the submarine's design and construction are currently underway and that it will be unveiled by August 2013. The submarine has been entirely designed and manufactured by Iranian experts according to the country's needs, he said.

Iran's Navy previously launched the indigenous Tareq 901 and Ghadir class submarines as part of efforts to upgrade the country's defense capabilities. The Ghadir submarine was first unveiled in 2007. The 120-ton vessel has excellent shallow depth performance and can conduct prolonged coastal missions and launch torpedoes.

Eslami also revealed that new indigenous fighters and modern drones would be unveiled in the near future.

PressTV - Iran to unveil new 500 ton submarine by August

 

[indian_sukhoi]

Most of these nations whom are facing a stronger naval power fleet, prefer to built a large number of mini submarine fleet. North Korea is said to have more than 50+ low variant deisel submarines.

do Iran make tropedoes and engine part from other country or produce them indegenous

 

[Godless-Kafir]

Wow!!! What a big target for Uncle Sam and Israel! They will just have to fire the torpedo and not even look back...

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The submarine has been entirely designed and manufactured by Iranian experts according to the country's needs, he said.

Looks like Typ 209 (Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft ).

 

[arnabmit]

Can it turn out to be a hoax like the stealth fighter?

 

[Singh]

Iran approach is to swarm the Persian Gulf with small vessels, and try to block the waterways and take out big vessels by "kamikaze" like attacks.

 

[Bheeshma]

Not bad for Iran. They need numbers in persian gulf. They don't have the capability to thwart USN in blue waters or stealth.