The new ship is based off of the 1960s era British designed Alvand-class frigates built for the pre-revolutionary Iranian government. Iranian Navy frigate Jamaran. Iranian Navy Photo.

Alvand — a 1960s era Vosper-class frigate built in the U.K. — came within 200 yards of the auxiliary and briefly pointed crew served weapons at both the auxiliary and the Seahawk before ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy has equipped one of its ageing Alvand-class (Vosper Mk 5) frigates with new indigenously developed combat systems. IRIS Alborz , seen here post upgrade at the ...

Horrell also noted that this class of frigates is based on the older Alvand-class frigates built by the UK for pre-revolutionary Iran in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The buying spree included four British-made Alvand-class frigates, 12 French-made La Combattante IIa-class fast-attack craft, and four US-made Bayandor-class corvettes.

Iranian warships including the Alvand-class frigate Sabalan are seen in this photo shared February 22 by the country's official navy media. Iran's three-day Velayat-97 exercise would span hundreds ...

March 24, 2015: In November 2012 Iran announced it was building the new Moudge class of corvettes. At the time all that was shown was pictures of the completed hull and superstructure. The ship has ...

Iran operates one ship, Sahand, that is a slightly larger version of the Moudge class. The Moudge s are reverse-engineered copies of Iran’s British-designed, 1970s-vintage Alvand ...

An Iranian frigate pointed a crew-served weapon at a U.S. Navy helicopter and a coalition auxiliary ship during a U.S. training exercise last month in the Gulf of Aden, the Navy said Wednesday.