Iranian missile sinks own ship during exercise

That ship had to be in bad shape for C802 to sink her. A JHSV got hit couple years ago off Yemen and she didn’t sink. She wasn’t in good shape (to put it mildly), but she stayed afloat.

No reason to go to war if they are shooting at their own ships. Let them play it out

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IS Alvand (71)

The three MK-5 / Alvand-class frigates (Alvand, Alborz and Sabalan) formed the core of Iran’s surface water fleet for decades.

IRIB said the Dutch-made Konarak vessel, which was purchased before Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, had been overhauled in 2018, and is equipped with four cruise missiles.

In 1978 Iran ordered eight S-frigates in the Netherlands. S-frigate stands for Standaard/Standard frigate. It was a popular frigate class which of which the design was also sold to the Germans to be build in license.

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This is an original Dutch S-frigate. The Iranian three ship were updated a number of times including changes for the four missiles firing stations that were installed.

Losing one of the three frigate which formed the core of the Iranian war fleet must be a heavy blow for them. A fourth frigate, the Sahand, was sunk by the United States Navy on April 18, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War. The attack, called Operation Praying Mantis, took place that day in retaliation for mining the Iranian navy and damaging an American navy ship.

The Sahand is one of a small number of ships sunk by cruising weapons. These weapons were fired by the USS Joseph Strauss (Charles F. Adams) and Intruder aircraft of the US Navy, after the frigate only attacked against a force majeure of 10 American ships (including a flying camp ship with dozens of aircraft). The bombs and Harpoons quickly caused the ship to burn in the water. Incidentally, the IS Sabalan was also hit during a similar hopeless attempt. That ship came off with a direct hit from a bomb and, after being towed back to Iran, was fully restored.

Missile Dan de Noor. This weapon is said to be based on the Chinese C-802, but the design has been modified and the weapons are built in Iran. This cruising weapon is said to have a range of 200 km and is launched from land and ships such as the frigates of the Alvand class. The weapon has an active radar to detect the enemy ship. In addition, this weapon can receive in-flight data about the target of aircraft or helicopters, so that it can adjust itself. This somewhat compensates for the shortcomings of Iranian sensors.