Iranian Navy

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Battered, the Iranian fleet pulled back, and since then has been hesitant to make good on its periodic threats against Iran’s neighbors and the United...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: On Oct. 16, 1987, an Iranian missile struck a Kuwaiti tanker, injuring 19 people. In response, a U.S. task force targeted two inoperable oil platforms...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Perhaps the most striking aspect of Iran’s submarine roster is its sheer size, especially in relation to the rest of its navy. It currently fields 34...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Iran’s fleet has a long history of waging losing fights with the United States and other Western powers. Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The newer frigate Sahand is named for the ship the Americans sank in 1988, but adding one more frigate to Iran’s landlocked Caspian fleet is unlikely to...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Whether fast boat swarms could adequately leverage the narrow littoral waters of the Persian Gulf and prove effective versus modern warships has never truly been...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Iran’s ragtag navy has a long history of waging losing battles with the U.S. and other Western powers. And the most decisive battle of all...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The little vehicles probably aren’t intended to strike the enemy directly, but instead would enable Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy to shut down the Strait of...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: New Iranian submarines may remain far from the cutting edge, but they could still prove dangerous adversaries in the confined and shallow waters of the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Whether the Iranian military could defeat U.S. or allied task forces is an open question. It is beyond question that Tehran can impose heavy opportunity...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The little vehicles probably aren’t intended to strike the enemy directly, but instead would enable Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy to shut down the Strait of...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Cyclones perhaps could outfight many of the gun- and rocket-armed boats and corvettes that make up the bulk of the Iranian navy and the...