Iranian Patrol Boats II - Iranian Navy (sitios de interés)
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3 Kajami-class semi-submersible attack craft
Builder: North Korea (Entered Service: 2002)
Displacement: 30 tons
Speed: 50 kts
Dimensions: 21 x Unknown x Unknown
Armament: 2 234-mm TT; 2 12.7-mm mg
Machinery: Unknown diesels
Crew: 4 (+ 4 passengers)
Remarks: Built in North Korea; fitted with a snorkel and are most likely intended to operate semi submerged for only brief periods to collect intelligence or arrive undetected within torpedo firing range of its target.
3 Gahjae-class semi-submersible attack craft
Builder: North Korea (Entered Service: 2002)
Displacement: 7 tons
Speed: 50 kts
Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.95 x .06 meters
Armament: 2 234-mm TT
Machinery: Unknown diesels
Crew: 4 (+ 4 passengers)
Remarks: Significantly smaller than the Kajami class; may be based on the Peykaap class. Built in North Korea; fitted with a snorkel and are most likely intended to operate semi-submerged for only brief periods to collect intelligence or arrive undetected within torpedo firing range of its target.
15 Tarlan class catamarans
Builder: Iran (Entered service: 2005-2007)
Displacement: 8.5 tons
Speed: 50 kts
Dimensions: 11.9 × 3.1 × 0.65 meters
Machinery: 2 . . . diesels; 2 surface-piercing props; 1,320 bhp
Crew: 3
Electronics: Unknown
Range: Unknown
Remarks: Aluminum construction catamaran hull. Armament fit unknown.
10 TIR (IPS-18) class
Builder: North Korea (Entered service: 2005-2007)
Displacement: 30 tons
Speed: 52 kts
Dimensions: 21.1 × 5.8 × 0.9 meters
Machinery: 3 unknown diesels; 3 props; 3,600 bhp
Crew: 3
Electronics: Unknown
Range: Unknown
Remarks: Constructed in North Korea for service with the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps; built with signature-reduction hull features; deliveries began during 2002, all were reportedly in service by 2006.
20 MIG-G-0900-cPB class
Builder: Iran Marine Industries
Displacement: 5 tons (fl)
Speed: 30 kts
Dimensions: 9.20 × 2.82 × 0.40 meters
Armaments: 112-round 107-mm artillery RL; 1 12.7-mm mg
Machinery: 2 Volvo-Penta . . . diesels; 2 water jets; 1,260 bhp
Crew: 3 tot.
MIG-G-0790-PB class
Builder: Iran Marine Industries
Displacement: 2.55 tons (fl)
Speed: 40 kts
Dimensions: 7.95 × 2.41 × 0.55 meters
Armaments: Small arms
Machinery: 2 gasoline outboards; 400 bhp
Crew: 2 tot.
MIG-G-0700-PB class
Builder: Iran Marine Industries
Displacement: 1.7 tons (fl)
Speed: 35 kts
Dimensions: 7.00 × 2.50 × 0.35 meters
Armaments: Small arms
Machinery: 1 gasoline outboard; 150 bhp
crew: 2 tot.
Remarks: Open launch with forward area decked over.
MIG-G-0500-Pl class
Builder: Iran Marine Industries
Displacement: 1.1 tons
Speed: 40 kts
Dimensions: 5.00 × 2.15 × 0.30
Armaments: Small arms
Machinery: 1 gasoline outboard; 115 bhp
Crew: 2 tot.
Remarks: GRP construction, open hull.
Note: Other indigenous classes include the smaller MIG-G-0600-CN3, MIG-G-0610- GP, MIG-G-0500-PL (a 5-m Boston Whaler copy), MIG-G-0800-GP1 (an 8-m Whaler copy), MIG-G-0800-GP2 (same design with a cabin and powered by two outboards), and MIG-G-1200-PS (a personnel launch with a cabin over nearly the entire length). An unknown number of 75-knot Bladerunner 10-m and 15-m craft are in service, some armed with one12-round 107-mm artillery RL and a 12.7-mm mg.
Up to 32 “Boghammar Boat” special forces craft
Builder: Boghammar Marin, Stockholm, Sweden (In serv. 1986)
Displacement: 6.4 tons (fl)
Speed: 45 kts
Dimensions: 12.80 × 2.66 × 0.90 meters
Armament: 2 single 12.7-mm mg or 23-mm 87-cal. ZU-23-2 AA; 1 106-mm recoilless rifle and/ or RPG-7 antitank RL or 12-round 107-mm RL?
Electronics: Radar: 1 Decca 170 nav. or none?
Machinery: 2 Volvo Penta TAMD-71A diesels; 2 props; 716 bhp?
Range: 500/38 nautical miles
Crew: 5-6 tot.
Remarks: Known locally as the Toragh class. Ordered 1984, ostensibly for customs service duties; 37 had been delivered by 7-87 for use by Revolutionary Guards in attacks on undefended merchant ships, and ultimately as many as 51 may have been received. U.S. forces destroyed five during 1987-88, of which one was salvaged and taken to the U.S. for use as a training target. Three Iranian units were returned to Sweden in 1992 for refit. Two versions delivered: Model RL-118 and Model RL-130-4A.
Hull systems: Have aluminum-construction, stepped-hydroplane hullform. Were re- portedly being re-engined with Seatek diesels in 1991.
Combat systems: A variety of armaments have been observed, with weapons fitted from whatever was available and according to missions foreseen.
20 or more GRP launches
Builder: Unknown
Displacement: 1.3 tons (fl)
Speed: 40 kts
Dimensions: 6.7 × 2.3 × 0.4 (prop) meters
Armaments: 1 12.7-mm mg and/or 1 12-round 107-mm RL
Machinery: 2 gasoline outboard motors; 240 shp?
Remarks: Some imported, some built locally in Iran. Used for harassing attacks on unarmed merchant vessels during Iran-Iraq War.
Note: Also in use by the Revolutionary Guards are 7.5-m Damen, Gorinchem-built assault boats, a few wooden dhows of around 23 m overall for mine laying, European- manufactured semi-rigid inflatable craft, and Iranian-built copies of the British Watercraft 800ñseries open workboat, the latter capable of 40 kt speeds.
9 U.S. Mk III class
Builder: Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wis. (Entered Service: 1975–76)
Displacement: 28 tons (36.7 fl)
Speed: 24 kts
Dimensions: 19.78 × 5.50 × 1.80 (props) meters
Armaments: 1 20-mm 90-cal. Oerlikon GAM-B01 AA; 1 twin and 2 single 12.7-mm mg
electronics: Radar: 1 LN-66 nav.?
Machinery: 3 G.M. 8V71 TI diesels; 3 props; 1,800 bhp
Range: 450/26; 2,000/ . . .
Endurance: 3 days
Crew: 9 tot.
Remarks: Survivors of 20 originally delivered; remainder lost in Iran-Iraq War or worn out and scrapped. Aluminum construction, with pilothouse offset to starboard side. A 20-mm Oerlikon AA mounting has replaced the 12.7-mm machinegun formerly carried forward. Based at Bushehr and Bandar Abbas.
6 or more U.S. 50-foot class
Builder: Peterson Bldrs., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (Entered service: 1975–78)
Displacement: 20.1 tons (22.9 fl)
Speed: 28 kts
Dimensions: 15.24 × 4.80 × 1.9 meters
Armaments: 2 single 12.7-mm mg
Electronics: Radar: 1 Raytheon SPS-66 nav.
Machinery: 2 G.M. Detroit Diesel 8V71 TI diesels; 3 props; 850 bhp (460 sust.)
Range: 750/26
Crew: 6 tot.
Remarks: Sixty-one were ordered in 1976. Nineteen were delivered complete from the U.S., and the others were shipped as kits for assembly in Iran by Arvandan Maritime Corp., Abadan, where they were still being assembled into the 1980s. Placed under na- val control in 1990. Many were lost during the Iran-Iraq War, and a number of the kits were apparently never completed. The survivors are said to operate in the Caspian Sea. Aluminum construction. Some have been equipped with British Tiger Cat surface-to-air missiles to be employed in a surface-to-surface mode.
Information from the upcoming Combat Fleets of the World 16th Edition.