Iran Talking Up New Mini-Sub; Photo Editing Extra

Iran's busy talking up their new mini-sub, and Fars, the Iranian news outlet, doesn't seem to know the difference between an Iranian mini-sub and an American Los Angeles class submarine. In fact, it appears that they purposefully photo-edited the image from the US Navy website. Bubblehead has the details.

Via Strategy Page:

From available information, this appears to be an Iranian version of the Italian MG110 mini-subs. Some of these boats were sold to Pakistan years ago. The Iranians and Pakistanis have been known to exchange information like this (on foreign weapons) before.

The MG110s are 85 feet long, displace 105 tons and have a crew of six. These boats are designed to also carry eight combat scuba divers. These subs can carry two torpedoes or mines externally. Top speed on the surface (using the diesel engine) is 16 kilometers an hour. The sub can stay at sea for about five days. It can stay under water for up to eight hours at a time (on batteries). These subs are hard to detect, but it remains to be seen if the Iranian boats are as reliable and capable as the Italian ones they are modeled on. The Iranians love to talk up new weapons they developed themselves, but when the stuff is actually put to use, the performance tends to be dismal.