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Class overview | |
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Preceded by | None |
Succeeded by | Ghadir class |
In service | March 2006 |
Completed | 1 |
Active | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 350-400 tons |
Length | 20 meters |
Beam | 3 meters |
Draught | 2.5 meters |
Propulsion | Diesel-electric propuslion |
Armament | 2 torpedo tubes, missiles |
The Nahang class (Template:Lang-fa) is an Iranian-made submarine class.
History
Being one of Iran's largest defense expenditures, the Nahang submarine is Iran's second attempt at designing and manufacturing submarines. In service since March 2006, the Nahang 1 is fully compatible to conditions in the Persian Gulf. It provides the navy with varied options for its use. Its design and construction involved 220 researchers and 1.2 million hours of scientific and industrial work.
After the Ghadir submarine, the Nahang submarine is Iran's second domestically-produced submarine.
Description
The Nahang 1 has a surface search radar and communications masts, which make it unsuitable for harbor infiltration, but well usable for reasonably clandestine mine-laying. It is said to be a sonar-evading stealth submarine. Iranian officials claim the Nahang is equipped with state-of-the-art electronic equipment and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously, but no information was given on the range of these weapons. Nahang means "whale" in Persian.
References
- Information Dissemination: Observing Iranian Submarines
- WTOP news Iran Says It Has Sonar-Evading Submarine 28 November 2007
Resource
- Picture of the Nahang!
- IRIBNews (Archive.org)
- SPACE WAR
- The Peninsula
- MEMRI
- Iranmania
- Persian Gulf Online
- NewsMax.com
- DefenseNews.com
- Xignite