[PRESSTV] The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy says new speedboats operated by the IRGC will be radar-evading and equipped with new missiles.
Rear admiral Alireza Tangsiri made the remarks in an interview with IRNA on Monday, noting that the IRGC’s Navy attaches great importance to high speed and maneuverability in its missions.
"We are planning to equip the IRGC’s speedboats with radar-evading stealth technology while increasing their speed in order to conduct their missions," the Iranian commander said, adding that "new missiles moving at very high speed are being installed on the IRGC’s naval vessels."
Tangsiri noted that the IRGC has currently the fastest speedboats in the world, saying, "We are working on speedboats with the speed of 80 knots [per hour] and more than that, and we will start to build speedboats with the speed of over 80 knots [per hour] in the near future."
Over the past years, Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing military equipment and hardware despite sanctions and economic pressures on the country.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic maintains that its military power poses no threat to other countries and is merely attentive to its military doctrine of deterrence.
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