navy of the islamic revolutionary guard corps

Old news but don’t see a topic for it yet. Iran is building a carrier…with superstructure at the rear I imagine it will only operate helicopters and VTOL drones. https://news.usni.org/2023/01/03/iran-building-drone-aircraft-carrier-from-converted-merchant-ship-photos-show

A thread or discuss about Iranian forward base/helicopter carrier IRINS Makran. Projects, armament and other.

https://apnews.com/article/dubai-iran-united-arab-emirates-persian-gulf-tensions-yemen-9c89b8a5571468f1f12be535e8825212

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/03/mysterious-ship-in-iranian-shipyard-is-likely-irgcs-new-flagship/ Two new catamarans, seemingly the same class (or at least very closely related), being built in parallel. Here is the second one, incomplete. We know that it has missile bins (likely...

We seem to have an evolving situation around two tanker attacks in the Gulf. One tanker seems to have been holed by a limpet mine above the waterline, and on the same ship, Revolutionary Guards are apparently seen removing what is claimed to be a limpet mine from the tanker’s hull, again above...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-nuclear-powered-war-ships-response-us-sanctions-a7471566.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-to-build-nuclear-powered-ships-after-us-breaches-atomic-deal/ This is likely to deadend very quickly (assuming that it's serious in the first...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/world/middleeast/a-ship-being-built-in-iran-looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html

Back in 2010 Iran announced that it had cloned the Hawk system and called it Shahin and incorporated it in a system called Mersad that along with some primitive looking radars also incorporated a rather cool quad twin 23mm cannon system: Then earlier this year they announced they were...