History Iran Name Gorz Namesake Gorz Operator Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Ordered 14 October 1974 Builder Constructions de Mécaniques, Cherbourg Laid down 5 August 1976 Launched 28 December 1977 Commissioned 22 August 1978 Refit 1996–1998 Status In service General characteristics (as built) Class and type Kaman -classfast attack craft Displacement
249 tons standard
275 tons full load
Length 47 m (154 ft 2 in) Beam 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in) Draft 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) Installed power 4 × MTU 16V538 TB91 diesels, 14,400 brake horsepower (10.7 MW) Propulsion 4 × shafts Speed 36 knots (67 km/h) Range 2,000 miles (3,200 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h); 700 miles (1,100 km) at 33.7 knots (62.4 km/h) Complement 30 Armament Notes As reported by Jane's (1979)[ 1]
IRIS Gorz (Persian : گرز , lit. Mace ') is a Kaman -classfast attack craft serving in the Southern Fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy . Being able to launch Mehrab (a reverse engineered version of RIM-66 Standard ), she is considered the smallest warship in the world to operate such a missile.[citation needed It is reportedly the only ship in her class that is capable of firing surface-to-air missiles, as of 2020.[ 2]
History
During Iran-Iraq War , Gorz was assigned to Bushehr Naval Base .[ 3]
From 1996 to 1998, she was used for modernization trials.[ 4]
In the wargame Velayat 90 , on 1 January 2012, she fired the missile Mehrab for the first time, marking its first operational test.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
See also
References
^ Moore, John, ed. (1979). Jane's Fighting Ships 1979–80 . London: Jane's Yearbooks. p. 256. ISBN 0-354-00587-1 ^ Nadimi, Farzin (18 June 2020), "Iran Signals a Toughened Stance by Adding to Its Naval Arsenal" , The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (PolicyWatch), no. 3335, retrieved 15 July 2020 ^ Razoux, Pierre (2015). The Iran-Iraq War . Harvard University Press. Appendix D, Table D6, p. 528. ISBN 978-0-674-91571-8 ^ Saunders, Stephen; Philpott, Tom, eds. (2015), "Iran", IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015–2016 , Jane's Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.), Coulsdon: IHS Jane's, p. 388, ISBN 9780710631435 OCLC 919022075 ^ "Iran Extends Missile Range, Compares Its Military Might to Russia, China and North Korea" , Newsweek , 16 October 2018, retrieved 1 August 2020 ^ "Iran launched Mehrab surface missile for first time" , Trend News Agency , 1 January 2012, retrieved 1 August 2020 ^ "Optimized Corvettes Join Iran's Southern Fleet - Politics news" .
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