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Iran builds submarine force in Persian Gulf face-off - UPI.com
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 20 (UPI) -- Iran has been building up its submarine fleet for the last decade, adding mainly indigenously built small boats armed with torpedoes and mines that make them ideal platforms to carry out Tehran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.
Accurate data on the Islamic Republic's underwater fleet, the only one in the gulf region, are hard to come by but Western analysts estimate the Iranian navy and the more powerful naval arm of the Revolutionary Guards Corps operate around 20 submarines.
Read more: Iran builds submarine force in Persian Gulf face-off - UPI.com
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 20 (UPI) -- Iran has been building up its submarine fleet for the last decade, adding mainly indigenously built small boats armed with torpedoes and mines that make them ideal platforms to carry out Tehran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.
Accurate data on the Islamic Republic's underwater fleet, the only one in the gulf region, are hard to come by but Western analysts estimate the Iranian navy and the more powerful naval arm of the Revolutionary Guards Corps operate around 20 submarines.
Read more: Iran builds submarine force in Persian Gulf face-off - UPI.com
