Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off

spacewar.com 22 Apr '12, 10am

Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off

Iran has been building up its submarine fleet for the last decade, adding mainly indigenously built small boats armed with torpedoes and mines that make them ideal platforms to carry out Tehran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. Accurate data on the Islamic Republic's underwater fleet, the only one in the gulf region, are hard to come by but Western analysts estimate the Iranian navy and the more powerful naval arm of the Revolutionary Guards Corps operate around 20 submarines. Most of these have been built by the state-owned Defense Industries Organization, a conglomeration of defense companies controlled by the Revolutionary Guards and that supervises all military production, research and development. The submarines are seen as a danger to international tanker traffic, which ships one-fifth of the world's oil supplies through the nar...

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@robertdjones » 22 Apr '12, 3pm
The sub in this picture looks like a toy or is really small. [link]
@JustANobody2 » 22 Apr '12, 3pm
Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [UPI via] [link]
@mediaganda » 22 Apr '12, 3pm
GodOfTheJews: Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [link] [link]
@rattler2 » 22 Apr '12, 11am
Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [link] イランはここ十年間に潜水艦隊を構築。それをホルムズ海峡封鎖を実行する理想的な軍事プラットフォームにするため水雷・機雷を備えた小型艇を追加している。 #iran
@JToddLewis » 22 Apr '12, 10am
Enlightening article on Iran's strategy to control the Strait of Hormuz, and thus, all the Middle East. [link] #Politics
@DTNMilitary » 22 Apr '12, 10am
DTN Military News: Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Apr 20, 2012 Iran... [link]
@PAULFELIXSCHOTT » 23 Apr '12, 10pm
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Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [link]
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Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [link]
@GodOfTheJews » 22 Apr '12, 3pm
Iran builds sub force in gulf face-off [link]