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Polit Affairs - New images reveal a new ambitious Iran plan to extend their military reach beyond Middle East and Persian Gulf, amid speculations of strategic military cooperation with Russia, that could turn Iran to a fully military super power in years to come!

Welcome to the new episode of Polit Affairs. Today we'll have a look at recent reports to know if Iran is really building an aircraft carrier, and what impact can it have for other powers!

Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has its naval division, and it is well known for its fleet of small armed speed boats that it uses to harass the large US Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf. Their motto is that this region belongs to its inhabitants and that US must leave Persian Gulf. However, it seems that their potentials are expanding their goals as they could soon begin to operate a far larger class of warship, an ‘aircraft carrier’!

2 month ago some strange images were published in Western media, showing Iran is developing a new class of aircraft in southern port of Bandar Abbas. It was believed to be an aircraft carrier, which brought too many doubts with it. because Iran still does not have modern fighter jets, so why would they want an aircraft carrier?

recently some new photos were published by Iranian outlets to make it clear. it's actually a drone aircraft carrier. A former Iranian-flagged container ship is getting converted into a warship to carry helicopter and fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

Based on Iranian sources, this project actually contain two big aircraft carriers which are identical. The merchant ships has been in dry dock since at least May 2022, undergoing the conversion to warships.

Iran seems to have taken a page from the US expeditionary sea base model when converting merchant ships into warships. US special operator forces are known to use base ships for covert action.

One of the prominent examples of Iran’s adoption of the base ship idea is the Iranian Navy’s IRINS Makran, a former petrochemical tanker turned into a warship in 2021. The Makran ranks among the largest naval vessels in the world, though she is considerably shorter than a carrier.

Reports suggest the IRGC does not want to be outdone by the Iranian Navy in terms of capabilities, and therefore it appears to have created a base ship of its own.

The new drone aircraft carrier will provide the IRGC with a long-range strike capability, leveraging the wide variety of aerial combat drones developed by Iran. and they have enough choices to use!

Iranian armed forces are known to operate more armed drones than many other nations that have twice their defense budget, and that too under crippling Western sanctions.

Shahed-136 kamikaze drones deserve special mention in particular, as they have been wreaking havoc on Ukraine’s air defenses and critical infrastructure in recent weeks at the hands of the Russian military.

Though this is actually the cheapest Suicide drone Iran has. they have such drones with ranges up to 4 thousand kilometers, speed 3 times more than the Shahed and payloads 6 times more than this. so imagine if they'll be deployed to thousands of miles away from Iran on this new carrier.

Iranian drone threat could increase multi-fold in terms of scale when coupled with an aircraft carrier, enabling the IRGC to strike any place at any time. As the ongoing Ukraine war has demonstrated, Iran could fill the skies of the adversarial nations with swarms of UAVs to overwhelm their air defense systems.

so as the economic and social conditions (protests) are worsening rapidly inside Iran, the government was supposed to only invests more and more on its military might to be able to stand against any possible aggression from US or Israel. but they seem to be more confident, coming out of their defensive position, trying to become more aggressive.
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