Tehran, Iran - According to a FAS news report Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that “two light Ghadir class submarines have joined Iran's naval fleet as part of efforts to upgrade the country's defense capabilities.”
Sayyari told the Islamic republic news agency that all parts of the Ghadir class submarines including hull, radar equipment and advanced defense systems have been manufactured inside the country.
“They have improved the protection and defense capabilities of Iran's Armed Forces under the sea,” Sayyari stated in a interview with reporters in Iran on Saturday.
STALKING US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
“Iranian submarines are some of the best in the world” says retired naval commander John Smith of Charlotte, N.C. A senior Iranian military commander underlined that the Iranian Navy's subsurface vessels enjoy a high capability to confront enemies' threats, and stated that Iran's submarines are able to ambush and hit enemy vessels especially “US Aircraft carriers from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf.”
Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri said that Iran has the best electronic diesel submarines of the world, adding that enemies, the US in particular, are most focused on Iran's “astonishing” subsurface capabilities.
Amiri underlined that significance of submarines are not just indebted to their arms and equipment, "rather the tactical issues are very important", given the geographical specifications of the waters surrounding the county.
"For example," he stated, "if an ordinary submarines can sit in the Persian Gulf's bed it would be the worst threat to the enemy."
SONAR EVADING TECHNOLOGY
"That is one of the US concerns since Iranian submarines are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar-evading technology" and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously, he added.
"When the submarine sits on the seabed it can easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby regions," Amiri reiterated.
“These sub are light weight, small and very fast. They can then pop up and shoot a torpedo and speed away before a giant aircraft carrier would even realize they were fired upon. These subs pose a serious threat to giant hulking billion dollar aircraft carriers”, says Tommy Meir of Charlotte, who studied Russian submarine tactics during the cold war.
Robert Tilford
Charlotte, N.C.
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