Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Russian Navy Ship Docks at Bandar Abbas


Russian Navy’s Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (BPK 543) has docked at Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The visit by the anti-submarine ship (nicknamed “submarine chaser”) is the first by a Soviet/Russian Navy ship to an Iranian port in more than 40 years.   

“Marshal Shaposhnikov, a Russian Udaloy-class destroyer, has docked at this port with the aim of strengthening military ties between Iran and Russia,” Vice-Admiral Hossein Azad, commander of Iran’s First Fleet, said on Wednesday.

File photo: Russian Navy Destroyer Shaposhnikov (BPK 543).

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

A very welcomed visit by our honored neighbours. Russia & Iran forever!

Anonymous said...

A very warm welcome indeed. Russia, Iran and China are natural allies and must cooperate more to secure the region from predators. I believe that Russians now understand Iranian position far better and the future will only strengthen this cooperation. BTW, a large Russian taskforce with assault capability (marines) has also docked at Tartus to bolster the Syrian goverenment which in on the offensive against NATO/US funded Salafi terrorists. Russia has also supplied Syria with 24 hypersonic Iskander (SS22) missiles ( that can even knock out a aircraft carrier. The Iskander’s hypersonic speed of more than 1.3 miles per second with a 280 mile-range and a 1,500-pound warhead which destroys targets with pinpoint accuracy. It is also NBC-capable.


Yesterday, the Syrian PM visited recaptured Aleppo and by all objective analysis, the Syrian troops appeared in very high morale, had first-rate body armour, brand new upgraded T-72Z tanks (ERA plates for anti-missile defence) and new COIN equipment and displayed execellent unit cohesion. Syrian military has once again proved to be the best in the Arab world.

The ships off Tartus Syria are the Russian fleet’s two largest amphibious assault vessels, the Kaliningrad and the Alexander Shabalin, which is a cruiser converted to a guided missile frigate renamed Yaroslav the Wise, the SB-921 rescue and tug ship, and the Lena military tanker. This is Russia's largest offensive naval deployment and is a clear signal of its unstinting resolve to support the legitimate Syrian government which is now on the march to wipe-out NATO backed terrorists, including Taliban mercenaries from Afghanistan.

This naval visit to Iran is just the beginning of greater cooperation.

Anonymous said...

Great! Stalin hoped and worked to unite Russia and Iran forever!!!!!


(but was thwarted by the USA.)

Sanford said...

With client regime of al-Assad being systematically dismantled, Mr Putin to reinforce assets in Lower Caucuses and double down on Tehran... the post Assad prize... the fall of al-Assad, a blessing in disguise for Tehran. Iran is enhanced by these developments.

Anonymous said...

Russia is feeling the heat in Syria, if Assad falls Iran will be the only country in the pro-Russian bloc. The Russians might as well actually deliver S-300's to Iran.

Anonymous said...

Anon 4:11 PM

You haven't a clue.Russia stole so much land belonging to Iran that to this day we are still paying for it.
They are a dishonorable unreliable and two faced bunch of money grabbers which in many respects are very similar to the mullahs.
But at least the Russian government is patriotic unlike the mullah regime which are anti Iranian and lovers of Islamist savagery.

Anonymous said...

Anon 6:38 PM

LOL!! How dare the USA ask Russia to remove their occupying army from Azarbaijan.
Either you're joking or lack a brain in your cranium.

Anonymous said...

You can cooperate with russian, but you should not trust them
"Fidel castro"


The russian are welcomed.
every body in the world needs ally and freinds.
alone you can not standa against nato.
the russian should not be trusted
at leaqst they deliver us, technologie and nuke plant

Anonymous said...

Iran and Russia ain't allies and have no real interests in common. Russia's use for Assad was as a customer for their weapons industry....and there hasn't been any "pro-Russia bloc" in the Middle east since the end of the Soviet Union.

Russia ain't EVER gonna deliver the S300s, friend.

Anonymous said...

learn some history, kid.

Anonymous said...

So what are worth all the previous predictions and assumptions of the AUTHORS of THIS blog ???????

I am advising you to learn from the last Mr. Putin's statements, where he states that Russia needs to counter the attempts of those countries that are spreading chaos and knocking out the last remaining pillars of the old systems (of stability).

Russia position on Syria was that if you can't make it better, don't make it worse...

It would be also beneficial to subscribe to the commentaries in "Russia Beyond the Headlines" and to commentaries by Mr. Fyodor Lukyanov, instead of to speculations in the Zionist medias..

P.S. I noticed that several previously posted articles, including those about American Thanksgiving, General Firouzabadi and Mass Murder in the US as well as others have been removed from this blog???? Is this another form of censorship and Mark's innovations ???

A-F

Anonymous said...

Iran might be the only serious and the biggest military customer for the Russia in the future and for Russia's economical survival. So conclusions should be obvious....

A-F

B.M.A said...

HERE COMES OUR STUDENTS !!!

FACT-IT IS IRAN THAT TAUGHT RUSSIA VERY RECENTLY THE DRONE TECHNOLOGY!contrary to common perceptions about RUSSIA'S technological prowess,THIS NATION WAS HUMMILIATED BY GOERGIA DURING THEIR SKIRMISH THE OTHER DAY!,and Goergia had used ISRAELI DONES in that conflict an act that supprised the RUSIANS.THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL USED AS LEVERAGE TO BURGAIN FOR THE S\300 against IRAN.RUSSIA IS VERY THANKFUL TO IRAN FOR INTRODUCING THEM TO THE UAV WORLD!!.

Anonymous said...

Hi, its me Mr Valdy Putin again......you know the world is awash in oil....but we must keep prices high.....mother Russia has nothing without high oil prices......My great friends in Iran....things must remain as they are for much, much longer.....remember I am your best friend.....smile...wink...wink!!!

Cheers!

Anonymous said...

Anon 9:54 PM

I know my history "kid". But you know zilch about the occupying forces of Stalin in Northern Iran.My family suffered from that occupation in Azarbaijan.
A true Iranian would never welcome an enemy like the Russians into our country unless they are traitors or foreign agents.
Are you one of them "kid"?

Anonymous said...

B.M.A,when you are with your family do you shout a lot?
Please go and get your ears seen too by a specialist.

Anonymous said...

that's rather unlikely, AF as the Iranian regime won't be able to pay for any military hardware in hard currency and Russia doesn't need any Iranian crude....

and, of course, iran is rather unlikely to forget that they paid the Russian for the S300 that they didn't get.

Anonymous said...

I'm very sorry, friend..... but did you take my ironic comment about Stalin seriously????
you didn't realize that it was a reminder that Stalin repeatedly tried to take Iran by force and was directed at the knucklehead who called the Russians "honored guests"?

Anonymous said...

My sincere apologies my friend!
I often make ironic comments myself and should have known better.

Anonymous said...

think nothing of it.

let's just be happy that we cleared up the misunderstanding.

Anonymous said...

why do you assume that BMA has family that associates with BMA?

why would you assume bad things about the family?

Anonymous said...

As of yesterday Russia suspended any preparation for the 3rd and 4th large amphibious assault ships in her shipyards until 2016.
At present France has been building first two, of the same class' ships (Mistral version) at the French shipyards.

That delay may signal that Russia may anticipate that because Russia further and expanded support for Syria or Iran, it may cause a cancellation of the contract by France.

Regardless the payments, Russia's security is more important for them, than some money Iran will owe to Russia. Oil from Rusiia may be transfered for payments to Belarus; China and North Korea...

Russia may need a naval base to patrol the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and it will save them money to base their ships in the vicinity instead to send them from the Baltic and Severomorsk to the Red Sea.
They can exchange crews from ships by an air travel...

A-F

Anonymous said...

Iran will have own version of the S-300 in the next two years...
Russia instead penalties, for the cancallation of the S-300, will have to provide modern technologies as an offset..

A-F

Anonymous said...

Higher oil prices have benefited so far Russia and Iran too.

Russia is in a transition period to upgrade their military and they need extra time (before 2020) to advance that goal, before any arms race will commence.

Iran too, needs extra time to domestically upgrade its immunity.

In a case if Russia would openly deliver the S-300 to Iran, they would loose any leverage with the West and accelerated arms race would immediately follow, leaving Russia in bad military shape to confront the West and consider any military influence over the world's events (including Iran's issue) without resorting to the world war outcome...

Iran's population with its leadership's correct decisions is patient and able to waitover couple years of sanctions as it was shown during the imposed war with Iraq.

Sometimes nations have to resist and it is a right price for the future peace and prosperity.