DHAKA: The Iranian Navy will take delivery of new domestically manufactured warships, hovercrafts, and helicopters next week, the commander of the Navy announced during a press conference held ahead of the National Navy Day, which falls on November 28 this year.

Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari also said that a new domestically manufactured radar system, named the Asr (Era), which would be highly effective and useful for the Navy, would be unveiled on Wednesday, Tehran Times prints this report on Sunday.

A number of domestically overhauled missile-launching warships and naval helicopters will also become operational next week, he said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Sayyari said that the Navy’s 28th fleet of warships, comprised of Alborz and Bandar Abbas warships, along with the Younes kilo-class submarine had recently been dispatched to the open seas on a 70-day mission to maintain security of Iranian commercial ships and tankers.

He said that during its mission, the fleet would sail across the Indian Ocean and would go to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and would dock in a number of ports in India, Sri Lanka, and Oman.

BDST: 1643 HRS, NOV 24, 2013