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Under the blockade, Iran's military industry is developing autonomously. In the past two days, Iran has unveiled for the first time the mystery of a new generation of catamaran missile boats developed for the country's Revolutionary Guard Navy, which has been closely watched by the Western media, and this time it is considered to reveal the true face of Lushan, and its firepower is even fiercer than that of 022.
On the 5th, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy in abbas, the main port in southern Iran, for the first time announced the video data of the new catamaran missile patrol boat named "Suleimani Martyr" and hull number FS-313-01, which was named after Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps "Quds Force" who was assassinated by the CIA drone near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, in January 2020.
Picture: The two-body configuration is the same as that of the 022 and Tuojiang grades
In March last year, the US Naval Institute website USNI and other Western media reported that Iran is building a catamaran wave-piercing missile boat similar to our Type 022, which was being built at the Abbas Naval Shipyard at the time, but the specific configuration and launching of the water has been strictly kept secret by the Iranian side, until now it is not public, although it is a missile boat, it is the most powerful surface combat ship in Iran in addition to the 1400-ton "Wave" class corvette built in recent years, "Wave" The class was designated as a destroyer by the Iranian Navy.
Image: The shape takes into account the invisibility
Revolutionary Guard Navy, is another national maritime armed force in Iran, the appearance of the "Suleimani Martyrs" is the largest and strongest warship they have, before they were mainly based on a large number of armed boats or small missile boats, the main "wolf pack of the sea" that wins by volume, from the previous US commercial satellite remote sensing photos, this missile boat is 65 meters long and also has a helicopter take-off and landing platform, the Iraqi army chief of staff Major General Bagheri also disclosed this time, its tonnage is 600 tons, larger than our 022 circle, The high-speed performance of the wave-piercing catamaran type is also considerable, and the speed may be more than 30 knots.
Pictured: A Bell 212 helicopter is landing on board
Therefore, this ship is equipped with a lot more powerful than the 022, and it does not match its own tonnage. From the public video screenshots, in addition to the bow 1 30mm cannon and 2 12.7mm heavy machine guns, on both sides of its bridge wheelhouse, equipped with a total of 6 anti-ship missile launch boxes, and two missiles of different sizes, 4 larger is the "Khadr" anti-ship missile, which is an improved version of the "Noor" missile imitating C802, the range is said to reach 300 kilometers, the smaller 2 are imitation of C704 "Nasser" anti-ship missiles, the range can reach 90 kilometers, A mixture of two kinds of anti-ship missiles that take into account both near and far is rare in missile boats.
Photo: The catamaran configuration has excellent speed
What's even more unique is that the ship is also equipped with a missile vertical launch system (VLS). Shipborne VLS development is actually not small, the world can build very few countries, in the rear of the "Suleimani Martyr" bridge, there are obvious 2 different sizes of the vertical hair system, of which located on the outside, the large area of the vertical hair has 4 units, and the medium size of the vertical hair has 6, so the total of this missile boat has 10 ship-to-air missiles.
Picture: Clear display of 2 different anti-ship missiles and 10 units of 2 specifications hanging out
Iranian media confirmed that equipped with short-range and medium-range two different ship-to-air missiles, because these vertical launches do not have the existence of public flame channel manhole covers, it is more likely to be "cold launch", its research and development difficulties are lower than "hot launches", the Russian Navy from the Soviet era developed and equipped with "revolver" type, independent development and launch of anti-ship and cruise missiles UKSK universal vertical hair, and equipped with 20380 and 22350 type frigates "multi-sided fort" air-to-air missiles hanging, all are "cold launch".
Image: 054A "hot hanging hair" in public journals, public flame drainage channels are clearly visible
At present, it is not clear what kind of ship-to-air missiles this new type of missile boat is equipped with. Previously, the Iranian Navy's "Wave" class frigates were equipped with "Mehrab" ship-to-air missiles mounted in a vertical launch box, which is the carrier-based version of the "Hunter-2" surface-to-air missile, which is essentially Iran's digestion, absorption and imitation of the US standard SM-1 and the Russian-made "Beech" surface-to-air missile, and is currently Iran's most mature medium-range semi-active radar-guided surface-to-air missile.
Photo: The "Wave" class is equipped with the "Mehrab" ship-to-air missile, and the launch method is quite primitive
But "Suleimani Martyrs" did not appear on the complex long-range sea-to-air search radar, there is no ship-to-air missile guidance radar, with Iran's radar technology, I am afraid that it is unable to develop a ship-to-air missile active radar terminal guidance system, this kind of vertical launch will not be a "strategic flicker", is still a mystery, in fact, the integration of complex medium-range and long-range ship-to-air missiles on the battleship is extremely challenging for the level of a country's shipbuilding, radar, electronics and aerospace industries, we climbed in this field in the 80s of the last century. It will not really blossom into the 21st century.
Image: Iran's most advanced Faith 373 surface-to-air missile, said to use a phased array-guided radar
Although the ship has a novel appearance and fierce firepower, there are many unsolved mysteries, which is also a landmark attempt for Iran to try to become self-reliant in the field of naval shipbuilding.