Irans recently created 3 "pseudo" carriers where they take the hull of a oil tanker and add a runway to it for drones and helicopters
It's third one seems to be a departure from this trend by allowing fixed wing craft on it
Thoughts on Iran's Aircraft Carriers?
It seems like a bad idea to invest in capital ships when your only realistic military threats are all countries with superior air forces to you.
And your air defenses are the worst in the region
an oil tanker with a ramp bolted on seems like a pretty far cry from a capital ship tbh
Iran is the definition of a what a cargo cult military looks like aside from china/russia/north korea.
Why doesn't it have a hangar under the flight deck?
since it's likely a drone carrier they'll fold up nicely to fit in the blocks that tankers usually have
>tankers
You are showing a container ship loadout though.
It probably isn't structurally possible, those bulkheads dividing the interior up are probably necessary to keep the ship straight and in one piece. What I really don't get though is why they wouldn't get rid of the original superstructure and replace it with something more like a real carrier or even a low profile thing under the deck at the bow (which is what we did when we converted cargo ships into escort carriers) so they can have a less stupid deck design.
> why they wouldn't get rid of the original superstructure and replace it with something more like a real carrier or even a low profile thing under the deck at the bow
They most likely don’t have the ability to alter the structure of the ship like that without causing significant structural damage or introducing a significant time delay. It looks like they literally just pulled off the original ship deck forward of the superstructure and are just putting on an extra wide one.
As I don’t expect Iran to have the best naval engineers I fully expect their “aircraft carrier” to be as seaworthy as the USS Monitor and permanently stuck in littoral areas.
why are they parking boats ontop of the boat, is it a boat carrier?
Great targets for the planes and missiles of the USAF, USN, and USMC to hit. They will literally be sunk in minutes on day 1 if a formal war ever breaks out between the US and Iran.
>They will literally be sunk in minutes on day 1 if a formal war ever breaks out between the US and Iran.
You'll think they would learn something from the Iraqi's during Desert Storm, but nope.
Seems it’s carrying more watercraft than aircraft
Honestly? Is cute, is a cute boat.
>Iran builds three carriers in a year
>the american industrial complex is so sluggish and corrupt their carrier take a decade to built
the multi-polar world is here
Smh
a flaoting drone alunch platform sounds cool, but once the other side shoots back with anti ship missiles it's gonna burn and sink.
sad shithole npc populace appeasing propaganda
why are there fricking boats on the deck
where are the guns, where is the rest of the strike group,
There are none
The strike force IS THE SHIP
It needs a ramp
The first one is actually a pretty great concept to reuse old tanker. MCS also did that
the rest looks moronic. It's one thing to militarize an originally civilian ship design(some LHD designs were derived from roro ferry) It's an entirely different thing to tack on airstrip to an old cargo ship