http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007040435Commander: Iran Plans to Build Aircraft Carriers
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy plans to start designing and building heavy vessels such as aircraft carriers, a senior Iranian Navy commander announced on Wednesday.
"The Iranian Army's Navy has done a good job in designing and building various types of vessels, and now after acquiring the know-how and experience the Navy is after designing and building chopper and aircraft carriers," Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy for Research and Self-sufficiency Jihad Capitan Mansour Maqsoudlou said.
Speaking to the Islamic republic news agency, Maqsoudlou said that the Navy has also accomplished designing of new vessels.
"Manufacturing chopper or aircraft carriers may consume time, but inability has no place amongst us since we believe that WE CAN," the commander said.
He pointed to the Iranian Navy's major development plan, dubbed as Velayat (religious leadership), and said manufacturing vessels and submarines of different class and type is on the agenda of the Navy based on the plan.
The Captain further named Jamaran 2 Destroyer as the most noteworthy vessel under production at present, and said it is among the several vessels in the final stages of production.
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