VEVAK
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Damavand is pretty much the end of a major Caspain Sea fleet. Might aswell uses these to beef up PG as you say.
It would take them 6 years to build another Mowj class in the Caspian Sea and the fact is a ship that size is totally unnecessary for the Caspian Sea
For the Caspian Sea during the course of the next 6 years I believe that money would be better spent building 6 Ghadir Subs + 2 Sina class size FAC specialized for Air Defense operations + 2 Catamaran class ships similar to the Shahid Nazeri and should contract out the Catamarans to SADRA they have a facility in the north....
And they should salvage all the equipment they can from the Damavand and bring it down south to speed up the construction of the hulls they have already built
If it was me for the Persian Gulf fleet especially since Iran will always be limited to the number of larger ships we can operate I would NOT be building anything under 450 ft (3,000 Tones) that's not equipped with at least 1 VLS (24 missiles 8 AsCM, 8 SAM & 8 LACM) but what's done is done and they need to finish the Hulls they have already constructed.
With proper funding from the government Iran's naval industries has the facilities, tools, manpower & expertise to build 4 450-500ft long missile cruiser & 2 600ft long Helo carrier/replenishment ship in the next decade