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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

How dangerous is Iran's submarine fleet?

Ghadir class midget submarineShould we be worried by a recent announcement Iran has retrofitted its fleet with 'the best and most equipped systems existing in the world,'and that some of the fleet is deployed to the inland Caspian Sea?

A senior Iranian naval commander announced yesterday that Iran has retrofitted its submarine fleet with "the best and most equipped systems existing in the world" and that some of these submarines had even been deployed to the inland Caspian Sea.

Should we be worried about this new underwater threat? Probably not, the same admiral said two weeks ago that Iran is not planning to build a nuclear submarine.

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