Iran Reveals World’s First Air Defense Small Boat

Iran’s second navy, the IRGC-N (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy) often raises a eyebrows with its outlandish weapons concepts. Much of its unveiling of fantastic designs is for domestic consumption however. Yet behind the propaganda and hyperbole there is a consistent and growing core of good ideas and viable equipment. The threat they pose to international shipping and navies operating near to their shores is growing accordingly. The IRGC’s weapon concepts should not be written off or ignored. The IRGC has created the world’s first very small air-defense boat. Named Zulfiqar class (confusingly several IRGC types are also called Zulfiqar…