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Ashura-class speedboat

Class overview
Builders	Marine Industries Organization
Operators	Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Sudanese Armed Forces
General characteristics
Type	Fast patrol boat
Displacement	1 ton full load
Length	6.7 m (22 ft 0 in)
Beam	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Draught	0.4 m (1 ft 4 in)
Installed power	Diesel
Propulsion	2 × outboard engines, 240 horsepower (0.18 MW)
Speed	90 knots (170 km/h) (estimate)
Complement	4
Armament	Various, including: 1 × 12.7mm machine gun 1 × 107mm 12-barelled MRL

The Ashura (Persian: عاشورا, also known as MIG-G-0800) is a class of fast patrol boat used by naval forces of Iran. It is a Boston Whaler type vessel based on a Watercraft UK design, and is manufactured domestically with hulls made of glass-reinforced plastic.

Types

Ashura speedboats are able to carry various guns, including heavy machine guns and multiple rocket launchers. There are versions with installed ZU-23-2 autocannon, DShK machine gun, and modified to carry a single naval mine.

• Minelayer version
• Trooper version
• MLR and machine gun equipped version

Export

From 1992 to 1994, Sudan purchased at least seven Ashura boats from Iran.

References

1. ^ Saunders, Stephen; Philpott, Tom, eds. (2015), "Iran", IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015–2016, Jane's Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.), Coulsdon: IHS Jane's, p. 391, ISBN 9780710631435, OCLC 919022075
2. "110 Combat Speedboats Delivered to IRGC Navy - Politics news".
3. ^ Haghshenass, Fariborz (September 2008), Iran's Asymmetric Naval Warfare (PDF) (Policy Focus), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, p. 12, archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-17, retrieved 2020-08-07
4. Saunders, Stephen; Philpott, Tom, eds. (2015), "Sudan", IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015–2016, Jane's Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.), Coulsdon: IHS Jane's, p. 792, ISBN 9780710631435, OCLC 919022075

v t e Ship classes of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Coastal warfare vessels	PTGF Tondar class
Patrol vessels	PB Ghaem class Pashe class Heidar class PBFT Peykaap I class Kajami class Gahjae class Tarlan class PBFG Azarakhsh class Peykaap II class Peykaap III class MK13 class PBF Ashura class Taregh class Zafar class RIB class Cougar class Seraj class MIL 55 class MIL 40 class Kashdom class Murce class Tir class
Amphibious warfare vessels	LSL Hormuz 21 class LST Hormuz 24 class
Auxiliary ships	AP Nasser class HARTH Shahid Nazeri class Shahid Soleimani class
List of equipment of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

• Fast patrol boat classes of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• Ship classes of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
• Ships built by Marine Industries Organization