The ceremony of presenting a fresh aircraft carrier named Shahid Bakri took place the day after the Iranian abroad Minister Abbas Aragchi spoke, who responded to threats by US president Donald Trump to reconstruct "maximum pressure" on Iran and halt all Iranian oil exports.
Iran boasted that the "drone", as the fresh unit was called, could flow even in very unfavourable weather erstwhile the storm reaches 9 on the Beaufort scale.
Show Iran's strength. “We will act”
According to the Tasmin agency, which is associated with the muslim Revolutionary defender Corps, the ship's scope is 22,000 nautical miles, or over 40,000 kilometres. He can sail the seas for a year without needing to refuel. The ship can take up to 60 drones aboard and is armed with 30 rocket launchers. Iran's Navy boasted that the ship could besides accommodate 30 tiny assault boats. It besides has 8 permanent hangars and 4 mobile hangars, containing aircraft and assault boats.
— Just as foreigners enter Iran's territorial waters, so we will besides operate in distant waters in accordance with global law, as General Bageri announced during the presentation of the drone, adding that Iran besides has the right to be present in the waters around the world, "to the limits of the territorial waters of all the coasts and to make this capacity."
