Re: What Made My Day Today :-)

On 12/13/24 7:43 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 12/13/24 7:12 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

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- Ta Da!.... Iran introduces her first "aircraft carrier" ...
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https://i.postimg.cc/1tVnP3Lc/air-craft-carrier.jpg
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Hahhahhahahahh :-))))
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They've modified an old oil tanker and turned it into a miniscule "carrier" that carries only Shahed 149s and Mohajer 6 drones :) I have not seen a more ridiculous work in ages. Hehe :-)))
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Last time I saw something that made me laugh like that was Iran's locally designed "submarine" on which an Iranian Navy guy was standing in salute gesture. Problem with the scene was that he was almost the size of the submarine. I mean you could perhaps load two or three guys inside that submarine if they didn't have to pass by each other in there :)
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This "carrier" can carry one helicopter in addition to the drones... Hahhahhahh :-)
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It can launch a few SAMs and ballistic missiles too.
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The main purpose is of course to carry the recon operations farther than just areas relatively close to Iran's borders or shores. With this, they can now travel around the world carrying with them a nice set of proven effective recon and attack drones, as well as a few ballistic missiles.
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About Mohajer 6 I've said in detail earlier. This Shahed 149 is one of the newest and best drones Iran has been manufacturing since 2022. It is much more advanced than its predecessors and it is named after Ghaza.
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The most interesting thing about this ship, for me, is what could be inside of it. They may have indeed built remarkable defensive systems there to quickly move around missiles and SAMS and drones themselves. The drones, as is seen in the photo, can go inside the ship via an elevator at any time to keep them safe from the elements and enemy, but missiles, looks like, are only taken inside by extra machineries at the port.
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So far it has joyfully been moving around inside Persian Gulf :) But it will get out of there and go around the world. It may take cargo to, like to Hezbollah and Houthis :-) Hehe :) They were talking about adopting other ways of taking stuff to Hezbollah after Syrian route was lost.
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So the ship sure looks ridiculous. But it is functionally pretty good, and do not forget that the first Scud Iran built by her own design in mid 1980s was also looking very funny, but even then worked fine against short distanced targets in Saddam's Iraq, plus later received many upgrades fast, ending in things that now can launch heavy satellites to orbit and multiple warheads to other continents!
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So, don't underestimate stuff like that. They'll get better and better pretty fast. So after laughing about it today for a minute or so, I realized it had indeed made my day :)
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  So now I understand why the militia were practicing parachuting down onto a ship of that size! I posted a footage of that from the point of view of the militia man jumping out of the airplane all the way down to landing on the ship. I think it was two years back that I posted it. The video for sure has been deleted by now. But when I saw that video I was wondering for what purpose they were practicing such difficult maneuver.
 So with this "carrier" now loose, and more of them coming, they want to be able to transport militia forces to the ship, fast, if the crew get killed or otherwise need help. This "Bagheri" ship (named after a militia head who fell in war with Saddam) and the project behind such lines of defense was the reason for that.
 

the entire length of Bagheri is 240 meters, and the flight deck is just 170 meters. So for some other drones or older ones a form of catapult might be required to give it a good initial speed, and traps to catch the landing ones. The width of the flight deck is 18 meters, good enough for a variety of drones that Iran manufactures, including all the five stealth types Shahed 141, 161, 171, 181 and 191.
Iran was lucky to capture a Sentinel American drone around 15 years back. These are various designs, all despite being very different from the Sentinels, still borrow a few features originally from that drone :) Some of them carry missiles internally, some externally, and some both.
Bagheri can load more than one helicopter, but their blades should be of foldable type.
If you ask me, This cheap thing with what it is, what it can do, is a jewel. It is also the first in the world. No "drone carriers" as far as I know existed. And it can fight some battles too. Every drone on it have missiles on them that can hit targets extremely accurately, plus the ship itself has ballistic missiles in its mysterious interior area, and SAMs on its deck as are seen in the picture.
The pictures from its different stages of build that has been taken via satellites by curious eyes could see everything except the inside :) At some early stage the deck was removed and the inside was visible, which was that of an earlier type of oil tankers, but they first built the deck and then began building whatever it is that's inside. Hehe :)
I think it can "carry" troops also! Both from the beginning of its mission, as well as later in the middle of the oceans by parachuting them down on it. I wish that parachuting video from a couple of years back was still there on the Streamable to see. Maybe it is still there. But they regularly delete them. It showed so well how a militia man using ram-air parachute zeroed in on a tiny little dot on the surface of the ocean, which after a few minutes turned out to be a ship the size of this same Bagheri, and then used the controls to land on it :)
So it can secretly also receive troops, as many as you need!
All that in one little cheap ship. I don't know the cost yet. But nothing made by Iranians are expensive for what they can do. The usual formula that has emerged is that the price must be about 2% the price of its equivalent (when they are built) made in Europe or USA.
And again, some day soon, they will be used for purposes of scientific research as well.