Iranian frigate Jamaran (tail number “76”) flooded user friendly big missile boat And 1403 Konarak during a training exercise

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In the course of the rocket firing rocket fired from the frigate, was struck by a large boat, which, most likely, did not have time to retreat to a safe distance from the exposed target

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Iranian frigate Jamaran (tail number “76”) flooded user friendly big missile boat And 1403 Konarak during a training exercise, according to Iranian state television and news agencies Fars and Isna.

“Unexplained” incident occurred on Sunday, may 10, during doctrines military-naval forces of Iran near the port of YASK (southern province Hormozgan), about 1270 km South-East of Tehran.

In the course of the rocket firing rocket fired from the frigate, was struck by a large boat, which, most likely, did not have time to retreat to a safe distance from the exposed target. Konarak provided target setting exercises and, apparently, at the time of launching anti-ship missiles Noor (the Iranian copy of Chinese missiles C-802) active radar seeker missile has locked on to the Konarak as larger radio-the purpose of hitting it.

Initially, the local media (produced in the UAE newspaper the National, and the publication of “al-Masdar”) reported at least 40 dead and missing. The Qatari channel “al Jazeera” reported about at least 20 dead, including the commander of the crew. Later, however, the official authorities said that the incident killed at least one person, but is wounded.

Jamaran – came into operation in 2010, the head of the national Iranian frigate built for the Moudge program, which is a virtual copy of the Iranian frigates of the Alvand (Saam) the British built in the early 1970-ies project Vosper Mk 5, informs NEWSru Israel.

Konarak is one of 12 built by Dutch shipbuilding Group Damen Shipyards Association (eight units) or for its license in Iran in Bandar Abbas (four) from 1985 to 1993, according to the project of MIG-S-4700-SC (type Bakhtaran, he Hendijan) of small ships to deliver personnel and cargo to offshore oil platforms, with a total displacement of 650 tons, length 47 m, speed up to 21 km and with a capacity of 90 passengers, 40 tons cargo and 95 cubic meters of fuel.

They then became part of the Iranian Navy, being used as a guard and auxiliary transport unit. At the end of 2000-ies of three of them (Kalat, Sirik, Genaveh) was converted into a large missile boat with the installation of four launchers of anti-ship missile C-802 or Noor, and in 2018, the same conversion took place and Konarak being re-introduced to the Iranian Navy in a new guise in October 2018 (the side rooms of these vessels coincide with their construction numbers).