Iran launches new destroyer Bayandor
Iran launched its overhauled and modernized destroyer named
Bayandor in the Southern waters of the country in the presence of
Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi and Navy Commander
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on June 11, Fars news agency
reported.
Army officials said the Iranian Navy's power of safeguarding the
country's territorial waters as well as maintaining security in
regional and international waters will increase after the launch of
Bayandor.
Overhauling the main engines, heat exchangers and fuel and oil
systems as well as optimizing the monitoring control systems are
among the measures adopted before launching the destroyer.
Navy experts have also mounted a fire control system for the
destroyer's weapons, a 76-mm and a 40-mm canons and a
surface-to-surface Nour (Light) missile system on the
destroyer.
In May, Sayyari had declared that Iran can use the destroyer to
carry out missions in international waters in the future.
He said the destroyer is fitted with state-of-the-art equipment
such as missile, torpedo, artillery, sonar and other information
and communication systems.
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense
sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential
military equipment and systems.
Iran's first home-made destroyer, Jamaran, was launched in late
February 2010. The Mowdge Class vessel has a displacement of around
14,000 tons and is equipped with modern radars and electronic
warfare capabilities and is armed with a variety of anti-ship,
surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.
Iranian defense ministry officials had said earlier that the third
generation of the home-made vessel, Jamaran-3 destroyer, will come
into operation by the end of the current Iranian year (March 21,
2013 - March 20, 2014).