Iran accepted into service the IRGC Shahid Bagheri, a large container ship converted into an aircraft carrier of sorts, ...

This is because Iran’s navy doesn’t have many large surface ships. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval arm claims that it has put “laser-guided missiles” and “air ...

the Shahid Sayad Shirazi and Shahid Bagheri ships, to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. Iran has two navies: the official navy and the IRGC Navy. Iran’s Maj.-Gen. Mohammad ...

Q-Ships are commercial ships outfitted with weapons ... but rather the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGC-N). The Revolutionary Guards are a paramilitary force that exist in parallel ...

"Budgets are not just ships and shipbuilding," Horrell said ... Guard Corps paramilitary organization. For decades, the IRGC Navy patrolled the Persian Gulf north of the Strait of Hormuz using ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked container ship in a helicopter operation ... IRNA reported that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized the Portuguese-flagged ...

there would be a large sea area in which the ship could hide, if its aim was to launch a covert, unattributable attack. The IRGC Navy Shahid Mahda (Fars News, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ...

US Naval Forces Central Command said the IRGC support ship Shahid Baziar was seen towing the unmanned surface vessel "in an attempt to detain it." US Navy coastal patrol ship USS Thunderbolt and ...

During an operation on Monday, the IRGC Navy seized the two tankers – named Start 1 and ... Last week, Iranian border police seized a ship carrying one million liters of smuggled oil in the waters of ...

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