VEVAK
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Where do u get your numbers ????
Iran at best would build less than 10 Fateh class sub and 3 or 4 Besa't class submarine in next 20 yrs. we do not have any will to build subs more than 1500 ton in near future.
your plan can bankrupt Iran navy.
I think at the moment we have enough ability to build at least on Fateh class sub per year.
The question is not how much Fatteh Iran can build rather how much Iran is willing to make! With a few investments in a few facilities and tools within a year Iran take the production of the Fatteh to greater than 10 per years if they really wanted and far more if they really invested a lot into it!
The reason I said 10 in the next 2 decades is not because Iran can't build any more but rather Iran wouldn't really want too due to the fateh's limited range of 7000km, endurance, limited depth capability and firepower.
And my timeline is for the next 20 years! and the fact is we can't know what kind of technologies we will build by then! 20 years is a long time so for all I know and for all you know Iran might be able to print 3000 tone subs by then or build unmanned version of a 1,500 ton sub that would have the range, depth capability & firepower equivalent to a 10,000 ton sub today!
And I said at best 1 or 2 3000 tone subs in the next 20 years because for all we know 1,500 tone sub may prove inefficient when it comes to depth or too small for an armed nuclear powered sub but for now the only sub's Iran is officially planning in the next decade is the fateh and 1200-1500 tone sub
Even the depth capability of a Kilo is inefficient and outdated today so yea in 20 years Iran will likely go for something better... If you were to go to 1990 no one could have predicted that within 20 years Iran was going to build SLV's and Send Sat's into space, Build it's own Sub's & torpedo's, Warships, Hovercrafts, Jet powered UCAV's, Armed MALE UAV's, PGM, Helicopters, Fighter jet, IRBM & have the tech to build ICBM's upon demand, LACM,.... all in the span of 25 years or so while under sanctions.