{"id":198576,"date":"2019-11-29T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198576"},"modified":"2019-12-02T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T08:11:09","slug":"iran-fits-all-warships-with-new-vertical-launching-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198576","title":{"rendered":"Iran Fits All Warships With New Vertical Launching System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sputnik News \u2013 Nov 27, 2019<\/h1>\n
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The Iran Navy’s Damavand during a visit to southern Russia. The Damavand is currently being overhauled refitted with a VLS system, which will significantly add to its firepower. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran has been building up its defence capabilities in light of a massive pressure campaign by the United States, which has ramped up its military presence in the Middle East markedly during the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Navy chief has announced that the country\u2019s destroyers have been equipped with a vertical missile launching system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi told reporters on Wednesday that the new shipborne system is supposed to shoot down cruise missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s a vertical launching system?<\/h2>\n

The vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced technology<\/a><\/strong><\/span> employed on ships to shoot down incoming aircraft and missiles. Each VLS consists of a number of cell modules that each can contain one or more missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

All systems of this type are divided into \u2018hot\u2019 and \u2018cold\u2019 ones. In the hot launch,\u00a0the missile ignites within the cell and is set in motion by its own exhaust, while in \u2018cold\u2019 systems, pioneered by the Soviet Union, the missile is propelled by compressed gas and its engine ignites after clearing the silo. Iran\u2019s Bavar-373 system is widely thought to use a hot-launch technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran’s arms troubles<\/h2>\n

The United States has had sanctions in place on arms sales to Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, while the EU and the UN both moved to cut Iran off the international arms market between 2007 and 2010 due to concerns over its nuclear programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UN re-scheduled its arms embargo to be lifted in October 2020 following the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal, while the EU is supposed to lift its arms sanctions in October 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the Western sanctions, for the past decade Russia\u00a0and China have been the top exporters of\u00a0arms\u00a0to\u00a0Iran, which has also been\u00a0developing its own defence capabilities<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. In November 2018, the Iranian Navy announced that it would deploy three new destroyers in the coming months; in September this year, it confirmed that another three destroyers are being built.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has also developed its own class of midget submarines, Ghadir, specifically for the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, as well as several other classes of subs including Nahang, Ghadir, and Fateh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Khanzadi said the Navy plans to begin the construction of a heavy submarine dubbed \u2018Be\u2019sat\u2019 but didn\u2019t go into further detail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran is set to take part in naval military exercise with Russia and China in the northern part of the Indian Ocean by the year-end.<\/span><\/p>\n

The threat of a military conflict in the Gulf region loomed large this year due to growing antagonism between the United States and its Arab allies, on one side, and Iran on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since May this year, according to US Defence Secretary Mark Esper, the Pentagon has sent 14,000 troops to the Middle East<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in addition to the already deployed ones. The latest wave of American weapons and personnel was deployed to Saudi Arabia following the 14 September drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Both Washington and Riyadh blamed the attacks on Tehran, despite the Houthi rebels claiming responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The VLS will significantly add to the firepower of the Iranian Navy’s relatively lightly armed vessels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198582,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198576\/revisions\/198582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}