Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
ایران اجر [Iran Ajr] (ex-Arya Rakhsh) | Teraoka SY, Japan | 1978-79 // 1980 | IRGC, captured 21.9.1987 | ||||
ایران عصر [Iran Asr] (ex-Arya Akian) | Teraoka SY, Japan | 1978-79 // 1980 | IRGC, stricken 2012-15 | ||||
ایران بدر [Iran Badr] (ex-Arya Boum) | Teraoka SY, Japan | 1978-79 // 1980 | IRGC, sunk 1980 | ||||
ایران بهر [Iran Bahr] (ex-Arya Sahand) | Teraoka SY, Japan | 1978-79 // 1980 | IRGC, sunk 1980 | ||||
ایران قدر [Iran Ghadr] (ex-Arya Dokht) | Teraoka SY, Japan | 1978-79 // 1980 | IRGC, stricken 2012-15 |
Displacement standard, t |
614 light |
Displacement full, t |
2274 |
Length, m |
48.0 pp 53.7 oa |
Breadth, m |
10.8 |
Draught, m |
3.00 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 diesels |
Power, h. p. |
2200 |
Max speed, kts |
11 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 12.7/90, mines instead of cargo |
Electronic equipment |
radar |
Military load |
troops, cargo |
Complement |
30 |
Project history: 984 BRT, 1660dwt. Blunt-bowed, commercial landing craft taken over by the Iranian Navy at the outset of the Iran-Iraq War. Had a bow ramp, single hatch with sliding cover and 10t cargo boom. Mines were deck-stowed atop the hatch cover and launched over the side.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Iran Ajr was captured 21.9.1987 by US forces while laying mines in international waters and scuttled 26.9.1987. Iran Badr and Iran Bahr were lost in 1980 during Iran-Iraq War.
Iran Ajr 1987
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