This story is inaccurate, as the Sahand is already launched, as the link
below clearly shows
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=648530961826003&set=a.648529195159513.1073741825.169376436408127&type=3&theater
Also with the situation in Syria, arms buildups in the UAE and Saudi
Arabia, this slow delelopment is disturbing.
Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:43
Navy Commander: Iran to Build Training Warship
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to build a training warship named 'Khalij-e
Fars (Persian Gulf)' in the near future, Navy Commander Rear Admiral
Habibollah Sayyari announced on Sunday, adding that the country's
destroyer named 'Sahand' will also be launched next year.
"God willing, construction of Khalij-e Fars (training) warship will
start this year," Sayyari told FNA.
"Once this warship is built, the Islamic Republic will be the only
regional country which has this type of vessel," he added.
Elsewhere, Sayyari also announced that the country's Sahand destroyer
will be launched in the next Iranian year (to start on March 21).
Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi
imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992,
Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles
and fighter planes.
Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military
and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived
as a threat to any other country.
Iran in June launched its overhauled and modernized destroyer named
Bayandor in the Southern waters of the country in the presence of Army
Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi and Rear Admiral Sayyari.
Army officials said the Iranian Navy's power of safeguarding the
country's territorial waters as well as maintaining security in regional
and international waters will increase after the launch of Bayandor.
Overhauling the main engines, heat exchangers and fuel and oil systems
as well as optimizing the monitoring control systems are among the
measures adopted before launching the destroyer.
Navy experts have also mounted a fire control system for the destroyer's
weapons, a 76-mm and a 40-mm canons and a surface-to-surface Nour
(Light) missile system on the destroyer.
In May, Sayyari had declared that Iran can use the destroyer to carry
out missions in international waters in the future.
He said the destroyer is fitted with state-of-the-art equipment such as
missile, torpedo, artillery, sonar and other information and
communication systems.
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector
and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment
and systems.
Iran's first home-made destroyer, Jamaran, was launched in late February
2010. The Mowdge Class vessel has a displacement of around 14,000 tons
and is equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare capabilities
and is armed with a variety of anti-ship, surface-to-surface and
surface-to-air missiles.
Iranian defense ministry officials had said earlier that the third
generation of the home-made vessel, Jamaran-3 destroyer, will come into
operation by the end of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2013 - March
20, 2014).
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