The destroyer, designed and built by Iranian experts, joined the Navy at a base
in the port city of Bandar Abbas, at the mouth of the strategic Strait of
Hormuz. Army Chief Abdolrahim Mousavi was present at the ceremony.
The destroyer is able to navigate oceans for 150 days along with a logistic
vessel.
It has a flight deck for helicopters, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and
anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and electronic
warfare capabilities.
"The first feature of the Sahand is that its radar-evading capability has
increased up to 30% and the form of its hull makes its detection by radars more
difficult,” Rear Admiral Ali Qolamzadeh, director of the Self-Sufficiency Jihad
of the Navy, told the Fars news agency.
He said that the capacity of the Sahand’s store, deposit and stock rooms has
been increased in a way that it can continue sailing distances twice farther
than what the Jamaran could traverse.
"Also the number of its radar and weapons system has at least been doubled and
new electronic war systems have been mounted on it,” Qolamzadeh explained.
Rear-Admiral Alireza Sheikhi, head of the navy shipyards that built the
destroyer, also told IRNA that the vessel is "the result of daring and creative
design relying on the local technical knowledge of the Iranian Navy... and has
been built with stealth capabilities."
Source:TehranTimes