Engineering:Azar-class patrol boat

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Short description: Iranian navy patrol boat
Azar-class patrol boats
Class overview
Builders: CN Lamar, La Spezia, Italy
Operators: Imperial Iranian Armed Forces
Built: 1954–1955
Completed: 9
Scrapped: 9
General characteristics
Type: Patrol boat
Displacement: 65 tons standard
Installed power: Diesel
Propulsion: 2 × engines
Speed: 22 kn (41 km/h)
Armament: 2 × machine guns
Notes: [1]

Azar (Persian: آذر‎) was a class of nine patrol boats that was built in Italy for the Imperial Iranian Navy.[1] The boats were named Azar, Chahab, Derakhsh, Navak, Peykan, Tondar, Tondbad, Toufan and Tousan.[1] Built in the early 1950s, all probably were stricken in the 1970s.[1]

See also

  • List of naval ship classes of Iran

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Iran", Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, Conway Maritime Press, 1996, pp. 187, ISBN 978-1557501325