IRINS Makran passes through the Great Belt enroute to the Baltic Sea on July 22, 2021. Photo by @shipoholic used with permission While labeled as a warship, Makran is a converted oil-tanker that ...

According to imagery provided to USNI News by Maxar, the Iranian Navy’s new forward-basing ship, IRINS Makran, was seen on April 28 after leaving its homeport with seven attack boats aboard.

The pair, the frigate IRINS Sahand and former oil-tanker-turned warship IRINS Makran sailed up the West coast of Africa and past Spain and France before approaching the southern coast of England.

The IRINS Makran, inching along at the speed one would expect of a former oil tanker, is thought to be carrying fast attack craft—small, agile missile-toting warships—bound for Venezuela.

The second important development was the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope by two Iranian warships, the seabase ship IRINS Makran and the frigate IRIS Sahand, on June 4. Makran, a converted oil ...

Iran received a new ship, the Shahed Roudaki, in the past year, and the Makran is considered one of its largest ships, at 228 meters long. In February, the IRGC’s navy received 340 new small ...