| Tango01 | 10 Mar 2014 10:27 p.m. PST |
"According to Fars News quoting Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Iran's new home-made submarine, Fateh, will be unveiled in the next few months. "Following the construction of Qadir (class) submarine by the Iranian Navy experts, Fateh submarine will be unveiled early next (Iranian) year (to start on March 20)," Sayyari said in the Southern city of Bushehr on Sunday…"
Full article here.
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Armand |
| MHoxie | 11 Mar 2014 3:15 a.m. PST |
Capable of 42 knots submerged.
Armed with 8 x 60 cm torpedo tubes, 24 torpedoes.
Range: 37,000 nautical miles.
Air *and* fuel independent propulsion. |
| A Twiningham | 11 Mar 2014 5:00 a.m. PST |
Since it is Iranian, it can also fly at mach 3 and turn invisible. |
| GROSSMAN | 11 Mar 2014 5:19 a.m. PST |
There is something unsettling about the words Iran home made… |
| Only Warlock | 11 Mar 2014 6:53 a.m. PST |
The only way that boat is making 42 knots is if it's sent to bottom of the Sea by a pair of mk48s |
| flicking wargamer | 11 Mar 2014 7:47 a.m. PST |
How many screen doors did they install? |
| boy wundyr x | 11 Mar 2014 8:10 a.m. PST |
Does that image not sort of look like 1960s movie special effects? |
| Lion in the Stars | 11 Mar 2014 9:43 a.m. PST |
42 knots is possible underwater, but there ain't no way a non-nuclear sub can get there! And at 500 tons, there's no way to put ANY powerplant capable of that kind of oomph in the hull. You'd be talking about something the size of a US Skipjack-class (3600 tons) or Soviet Alfa-class (3200 tons, needing an exotic reactor) Wiki says the Fateh is 48m long and 600 tons submerged, max speed of 14 knots submerged, which sounds about right. That's about 1/3 the displacement of a WW2 US fleet boat. The German Type 212 AIP Diesel sub is about the same size as the US Fleet boats, so the Fateh is a really tiny sub the size of a Soviet Quebec-class link |
| Tango01 | 11 Mar 2014 10:08 a.m. PST |
I think it's a miniature model! (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| David Manley | 11 Mar 2014 10:42 a.m. PST |
Probably a rather tricky customer to find if its operating in the littorals |
| Lion in the Stars | 11 Mar 2014 12:25 p.m. PST |
I'd agree with that, David. electrical propulsion, probably NOT pulse-modulated (that's what makes electric/hybrid cars "whine"), and shallow water is very bizarre acoustically speaking. But no way in hell is it doing 40+knots. |
| GROSSMAN | 11 Mar 2014 12:29 p.m. PST |
@ Boywundyr, it does look like the S.E. from those bad Japanese puppet movies. |
| David Manley | 11 Mar 2014 10:24 p.m. PST |
I don't think anyone is claiming 40+ knots. |
| SouthernPhantom | 12 Mar 2014 9:14 a.m. PST |
A "semi-heavy" submarine? What is that even supposed to mean??? |
| Mako11 | 12 Mar 2014 9:34 a.m. PST |
Still, "undetectable", since we no longer will have any ASW frigates soon, so that's a good move on their part, assuming they are watertight. |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
