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IRANIAN NAVY (IRAN)

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

IRAN AJR tank landing ships (1978-1979/1980)

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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