In recent years, Iran's various weapons and equipment have also appeared in a blowout, including all kinds of missiles and drones, according to Iran, the country has been equipped with hypersonic weapons, but due to Iran's overall scientific and technological level is limited, Iran is actually a lot of technology blind stacking when equipping with many so-called advanced weapons, although it can meet the so-called standards, but there will be a lot of trouble in the actual combat use process. It is undeniable that some of Iran's weapons are indeed capable of bringing a lot of unexpected damage to the opponent in the course of actual combat. In recent years, the Iranian Navy has also strengthened long-range military operations in the far seas, and at the same time, Iran has also come up with some new ships, including expeditionary base ships, but expeditionary base ships are also out-and-out drone carriers.
According to social media and U.S. defense blogs, a few days ago, a corvette of the Iranian Navy Sahander has sunk in Bandar Abbas, although Iranian media have confirmed, but did not give any detailed explanation, it is understood that the frigate was in a state of shipyard maintenance at the time, and because the left and right tanks were not trimmed, the hull continued to tilt to the left and eventually capsized. The sinking of the ship during routine maintenance is also bad news for Iran, but it is not surprising to see the frequent accidents of Russia in the maintenance of the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, and it is not surprising to compare it with Iran.
The Sahander frigate is a fairly new surface ship in the Iranian Navy, which is also a surface ship that has just been put into service at the end of 2018, although it is a new frigate designed by Iran itself, but the displacement tonnage of the ship is only 1500 tons, which is a very small kind of ship, and the Iranian side in order to improve the stealth ability of this type of ship, it is also intended to design the shape of this type of ship for stealth, it is worth mentioning that this type of warship has been equipped with phased array radar. Iran has taken stealth and phased array radar into account when designing surface ships, but in fact, there is still a lot of equipment piled up on this type of ship, and the phased array radar has led to a change in the height of the center of gravity.
Judging from the comprehensive performance of this type of missile frigate, although this type of warship is not as large as the displacement tonnage of the 056 type frigate of the People's Liberation Army, Iran is also constantly piling up weapons and equipment, in addition to the high radar, the bow of this type of warship was not equipped with missiles before, but with the installation of a number of inclined missile launchers, it directly led to another change in the center of gravity of the ship, and the war research believes that the installation of these missiles has also greatly increased the risk of the battleship sinking. As Iran does not have the ability to produce large-tonnage surface ships, the War Research Institute believes that Iran's continuous accumulation of weapons for small surface ships is a wrong decision, but for Iran, this is also a powerless approach.
In fact, many countries envy China's current equipment 054A missile frigates, 052D missile destroyers and 055 type 10,000-ton missile destroyers with a larger displacement tonnage. Text/Iris