Iranian Jamaran Frigate Ship Brief

The Jamaran-class frigate is a class of domestically produced multi-purpose warships of the Iranian Navy. These frigates are designed for a variety of roles, including anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-aircraft warfare (AAW), and anti-surface warfare (ASuW). Here are the key technical details:
Length: Approximately 95 meters (311.7 feet)
Beam: Approximately 11 meters (36 feet)
Displacement: Around 1,420 tons (full load)
Type: Combined diesel and diesel (CODAD) propulsion system
Engines: Four diesel engines
Speed: Up to 30 knots
Four Noor (C-802) anti-ship cruise missiles
One 76 mm Fajr-27 naval gun
Two 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
Multiple machine guns
Two triple 324 mm torpedo tubes for lightweight torpedoes
Radar: Advanced radar systems for air and surface search
Sonar: Hull-mounted sonar for ASW operations
Electronic Warfare: Modern electronic countermeasures and decoy systems
Helicopter: Capable of carrying one medium-sized helicopter
Crew and Habitability:
Crew: Approximately 140 personnel
Range: Around 3,000 nautical miles
Endurance: Capable of extended operations with sufficient provisions
The Jamaran-class frigates are designed to enhance the Iranian Navy's ability to protect its territorial waters, conduct patrol missions, and engage in surface and subsurface combat. They represent a significant step in Iran's efforts to develop indigenous naval capabilities.
📫 Contact Gene Dayhaw [e-mail] for paid promotion.
🐦► / subbrief
🕺► / subbrief
⏰► / subbrief
😃► / subbriefmedia
🏴‍☠️► www.SubBrief.com
💵► / subbrief
🔗► / aaron-amick-9538a4171
💌 Contact Aaron ► [e-mail]
🦃 Jive Turkey / @jiveturkey1
Aaron's PC Spec
------------------------
CPU: Intel i9-10850K @3.60GHz
RAM: 64GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Accelsior 4M2 16.0TB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD
sub brief, sme, subject matter expert, naval, policy, technology, tactical use of the ocean, sonar, submarine tactics, weapons employment, aip, air independent power, 21st century, aaron, amick, aaron amick, sonar, sonarman, sme, SME, subject matter expert, naval, games, wargames, testing, tactics, news, history, tactical use of the ocean, hide, find, search, jive turkey, jive, subbrief,

[@SimonVA99]

12 days after this video, Sahand capsizes in port - the saga continues

[@EspressoInSpace]

Saw the slide show style and had to double take to check if this was Sub Brief or Perun haha

[@Dreamer66617]

hahahah likewise. Both awesome!

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Yeah...the layout & colours do have a Perun vibe.

[@ilhanolcay3836]

The Saratoga shot a Sea Sparrow "accidentally" through the bridge of the TCG Muavenet, so yes the USN has friendly fire accidents due to not following protocols!

[@WadmanP]

Frigates? Corvette might be a more accurate classification.

[@andreabosi5283]

In some countries would be barely an OPV

[@Saffi____]

I hate military definitions. They are often vague or contradictory.

[@TraderDan58]

These are too large and too much tonnage to be a corvette. Aaron is correct in calling it a light frigate. Corvette are actually smaller than frigates or destroyers.

[@TraderDan58]

@@Saffi____ yeah that’s kinda true. But tonnage and what role the ship is used for is what we normally use to classify them

[@Saffi____]

@@TraderDan58 Even that's being challenged. The Zumwalt-class destroyer weighs more than the Ticonderoga-class cruisers. Then there's the fact that Ticonderoga-class cruisers focus mostly on anti-air while Russian cruisers focus on anti-ship. And I'm not going to get into the whole thing about what is a tank.

[@jazz.560]

It’s actually wild for a ship to have two air defence missiles like what if the enemy has three missiles

[@svartorivigt5016]

Well guess what happaned today to one of these ships 🤣🤣🤣

[@jazz.560]

I never thought about it until you called it lecture, but this is exactly like a university lecture

[@AG-en5y]

The sad state of our education system where high schoolers need to go on KZbin to get a good lecture

[@jazz.560]

@@AG-en5y it sounds like my uni lectures

[@AG-en5y]

@@jazz.560 I said high school homie. Doesn't matter how good uni is when a large population don't really go and they only get glorified daycare education for 12 years

[@jazz.560]

@@AG-en5y yeah true but you know they’ll probably never find it enough for it to be amazing because people want education and the government knows a lot of people will just try hard and manage themselves

[@tigerland4328]

Really good video as usual. I really like how you break down all the systems,weapons, countermeasures etc 👍

[@kurousagi8155]

Interestingly enough, the class deploys with Iran’s copy of RIM-66 SM-1MR, the Sayyad-2 (sometimes the upgraded, longer range Sayyad-3). Only 4 missiles onboard at once, but HIMAD on a warship is fairly rare in the world.

[@jazz.560]

What is himad

[@kurousagi8155]

@@jazz.560 High to medium air defense.

[@IC3XR]

Great brief as always. Hobart-class Air-Warfare Destroyer brief next? 👀🤞

[@MrTylerStricker]

Bob Marley said it best when he said "and I hope you like Jamaran too"

[@turinturambar6492]

to be fair in Farsi any military ship is called ناو there weren't any Farsi equivalent for the ship classes but these days they have come up with the word ناوچه which means little warship or ناوشکن which means destroyer

[@wochee]

One wonders if you knew what would happen in Bandar Abbas! I am sure you didn't, but most serendipitous video, and comments about top heavy ships.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

My main takeaway: Iran has less sophisticated but superior littoral combat ships. Seriously, we underestimate Iran at our peril. Cheers from AU Chief. ⚓⚓

[@martinmoffit8950]

Awesome work, as always.

[@Bananaskin101]

The hull reminds me of the old UK Amazon type 21 frigate

[@drjojo4624]

Despite occasional problems, there are strong ties between Iran and Pakistan, particularly in missile technology, so it wouldn’t be a great stretch of the imagination to think that the Iranians have had a good look over the type 21s in Pakistani service.

[@datboi449]

I think the president of Iran begs to differ on if you can maintain it, it runs forever.

[@slartybarfastb3648]

His AB-214 was flying fine...until that mountain got in it's way.

[@parsoakhorsandmusic]

Maybe they stopped maintaining that particular one..

[@zenonsplawinski9436]

If the satellite navigation wasn't being spoofed or jammed by a country with intelligence bases in Azerbaijan, it was most likely due to a fatal combination of bad weather, extremely rough terrain and 'getthereitis'.

[@bhhbcc4573]

Well done. Most interesting to hear about navies other than the big ones. How about Egypt and Turkey? Both getting nice ships.

[@isserdigan2835]

LOL one of these frigates capsized.

[@karlbrundage7472]

We dodged a bullet by not having delivered the ships that we built for the Shah in the late 70s/early 80s. Those were taken into USN service as the Kidd-class DDG. They're now in service with the Taiwan Navy.

[@nigeriaroberts678]

Is that the same bell helicopter that crashed with iranian leader?

[@pd-kx4qw]

Seems like they got a decent amt out of 1400 tons even if it’s outdated tech.

[@Havoc-zt8lb]

IRGC stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps not "Iranian Republican Guard Force", he may have been confusing it with the Iraqi Republican Guard.

[@apo617]

Fantastic

[@tomriley5790]

I think it's these things are providing targeting for the Houthi at the moment

[@ts757arse]

My first question is whether the Iranian Navy is therefore a more honourable and respectable force than the Republican Guard. Kinda like the Wehrmacht compared to the SS (in general!)?

[@thegeneral123]

I'm guessing slightly but I also bet they have 'political' officers on board and everyone is watching everyone else. Anything done out of bounds would result in a swing from a crane.

[@christophh3233]

Please don’t put the Wehrmacht on a too high level. Much of it‘s good name is because of white-washing after WW2 to sell an integration of West Germany into the western block to the public. Of course it was more respectable than the SS - most military in history was.

[@martinjones12]

@minute 6:16 the table shows Damavand (77) Laid Down in 2009...but launched in 2007 !!!!! HUH?

[@chemputer]

Both the incidents occurred on the Bandar Anzali shipyard, so the Caspian Sea fleet or in the shipyard itself, I don't think that's a coincidence.

[@ibeatyoutubecircumventingy6344]

oh i get it the channel is Sub Brief that is why they are doing a piece on Iran's soon to be submersibles

[@behroozkhaleghirad]

As an Iranian, I have to confess that our navy is in a worse shape even in contrast with our air force.

[@PatriotOfPersia]

گرین کارت میخوای ؟

[@wyldhowl2821]

As the video says, you won't see these ships going too far from home. maybe they would do a "show the flag" visit to a place like Syria, at the most. But forget about long voyages across the deep sea to project power. It is for pushing back on the hostile neighbours if something should happen. Try to remember that even if the US fleet were ever not in the Persian Gulf, that would mean the wealthy Saudi and UAE navies across the Gulf, maybe even the Pakistan navy if they have problems on their eastern frontier by the Gulf Of Oman. People always forget about that relationship of theirs; it is not very friendly sometimes. (Even the Caspian issue gets mentioned more.)

[@SurinMiranda]

Could you do a brief on the S-80 submarine.

[@EricDKaufman]

the opening picture!

[@pablopeter3564]

Neither Destroyer nor Frigate, it is a Corvette.

[@fighting_bones]

I didnt even know Iran had such a ship

[@AG-en5y]

I got a jammal class destroyer in my pants

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

The Iranian's have done a heck of a job decreasing weight in their Bell helicopters. A weight of only 6.2 kilograms! Now that's weight reduction if I've ever heard of it.

[@SubBrief]

oh no, is there a typo on the screen?

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

@@SubBrief It was in the spoken script when you are discussing the Bell helicopters. To be fair I was multitasking (only listening) - so if I am wrong - will you let me know!?

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

21:45 - of course I'm just giving you a hard time but that is the time stamp of the silly error

[@paulantony4598]

@ 12:14 '..the Rascal FH-5...' These ships should be given the code name.. The Rascal class..😅 Will make easy targets for their opponents thanks to the state of the art 80s tech.. That chopper is probably 6 tons not 6 kg..

[@daveriddell3704]

Iranian navy? Always need a good laugh to start the week!!

[@COMPLAINS_NOT_CHANGE_ANYTHING]

Iranians and their hoethis fellow biggest weakness is their OVER CONFIDENCE Is as big as Russian Baltic fleet confidence during 1904-1905 that involved in Battle of Tsushima strait 😂

[@Dreamer66617]

You've been watching too much Prerun Aaron LOL

[@tysonas1]

OMG; 50 year old technology😂

[@Ncs-Charlie]

Can you make a video about Pakistan navy type 54 ap frigate or pn milgiam class Corvette

[@Myanmartiger921]

Imf loan money funded ships?

[@Ncs-Charlie]

@@Myanmartiger921 we got money from your mother and sister. If we need more money we will contact your mother and sister again don’t worry pajeet

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

Note: Revolution Guard... not Republican... it's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps...

[@Kilo3Cav19K]

those Chinese ASM's operating as designed. Holy Cow, Friendly Fire Incident. Pretty sure that missile was a secret USN asset.

[@housemana]

you fundamentally are misunderstanding what's going on here. it's a sharp sword to wield. depending on the skill and situation, the same killing potential could very well end up turning on the one wielding.

[@InchFab]

Maybe try a Tums and a glass of water. Your cadence is killing me with all the swallowing.

[@zenonsplawinski9436]

In 2016 Iran produced 335,000 STEM graduates compared to the US with 568,000. Not bad for a country with a population of about 80 million at the time. The Iranians I encountered at university were without exception, smart, industrious and cultured people. The Iranians are going to get very good at a lot of things very quickly. Their automotive industry has been manufacturing around 1 million vehicles a year since 2016. Not bad for a country under a multitude of sanctions. I've heard from people who've visited that Iran is actually a far more industrialised, modern and advanced country than they expected. Iran has clearly made significant progress in missile and drone technology. They are also one of the few nations producing locally developed medium and long range air defence systems. They will inevitably integrate these technologies into their warships. If this is their initial foray into domestic construction of large warships, we'll see how far they can progress in 10-20 years.

[@flyingsword135]

The mill stone around their neck is islam, never go anywhere till they get past it.

[@zenonsplawinski9436]

@@flyingsword135 Religion and culture aren't exactly the same things. Persian/Iranian culture and national identity has a long history. They know who they are and embrace their own culture, national identity and values. Their national identity, self determination and sovereignty isn't void or made invalid just because we in the west no longer relate to those concepts or find them fashionable anymore. How the Iranians want to run their country is entirely up to the Iranian people. I'm not a Muslim, but it strikes me that Islam wasn't exactly a millstone for Saladin, the Mongol Khanate, the Ottomans, etc.

[@MRxMADHATTER]

It looks sinkworthy.

[@tomedgar4375]

👍

[@stuartyablon7184]

this looks like a future submarine conversion lol. Soon. Courtesy of the 2025 United States Navy.

[@briancox2721]

6:07 I bet mossad had nothing to do with any of those accidents.

[@allensanders5535]

not much of a helicopter if it only weighs 6.2 kilograms that's about 13.5 pounds.

[@drgonzo305]

The Iranian SM-1, 60% of the time it works every time😉

[@Based_Lord_Humongous]

Allah smile upon and bless His Bravest Sailors, Mashalla!!!!!

[@FerDzone205]

So the chicken teach them how to "reverse engineering"folloers of tincan with much much worst maker😂 Not bcoz you copied a good weaps.meaning it's the same to the original one absolutely it's different apparently it can worsen it or achieved a little but not all 🕵🏿💀

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Copypaste Class

[@c4sualcycl0ps48]

Just put a Furuno radar on my boat! It’s a 27ft. Power boat! Can’t believe it’s also used by navies

[@oghuzkhan5117]

Why nothing about Turkish Istanbul class frigate that is newly built?

[@teslastellar]

Regarding the incident during the live fire exercise, I believe the patrol boat that was accidentally targeted was responsible for moving the target into the exercise area. Regarding the classification, it's a mistranslation as someone else here has also mentioned. The same word is used in Persian to refer to all classes of warships and that's why people get confused when they've seen the word used for frigate in one place, destroyer in another, and a corvette in still a different place.

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Thanks from AU.

[@mathewkelly9968]

Can Australia buy these we got a 25mm gun , a helicopter pad with no refueling let alone a hanger and a zodiac on similar tonnage ....... this comment is aimed at the idiots in the comment section , yes the USN will sink these post haste but they aren't that bad

[@error404namenotfound7]

Really learned a lot in todays ship brief. Always interesting to see what isolated-ish countries cook in their defense industry. That said: I would love if you could make a brief about the german F123 or F124 class of frigates. Would be interesting what someone with your knowledge thinks about them😊

[@peterasp1968]

Somehow it looks as if it was derived from the RN's Amazon class of the 1970s. Except of course that it ships a 76mm gun vs the RN's 4.5 in.

[@thegeneral123]

Blue navy bought from Wish.

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting, thanks, man!

[@Coridimus]

I know a lot of people in these comments like to mock these vessels, but, in all honesty, I think these are pretty spiffy coming from a nation under constant threat from the US, has oodles of sanctions against it, and does not have the luxury of throwing billions of dollars at anything it wants on a whim.

[@chenr17]

I can’t be the only one that noticed this is the same PowerPoint template is Perun…right?

[@BlackHawkBallistic]

Aaron has been doing slideshow style videos for many years, possibly longer than Perun you'd need to check when Aaron started doing his videos compared to Perun. It isn't new to him.

[@eddiecharles6457]

Just wanted to point out that IRGC stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps NOT Iranian Republican Guard as you stated.

[@1KosovoJeSrbija1]

19:03 that's not how that works...

[@dtrain1634]

It’s similar to the type 21 in shape

[@colchronic]

So basically a fiero kit car

[@PoiPoi5189]

Good stuff, thank you Aaron

[@kelpeyehelp]

Would you be able to do a video on the Harry DeWolf class? It's received a lot of criticism that I would like to better understand, from what I gather it's woefully underequipped for it's potential scope of missions.

[@SubBrief]

I need to look into in. Thanks for letting me know this vessel exists (I never heard of it).

[@gOtze1337]

Iran calls this a Destroyer, while Germany is building 10.000 Tonnes Frigates :)

[@christophh3233]

Zerstörer just sounds too brutal. Not in line with the Image the German military wants to portrait. Sometimes I wonder if German military and intelligence agencys want to come of as incompetent and harmless but are capable in secrecy. I served in the German Navy and have seen many capable people. But the number of plain stupid decisions, especially when it comes to buying new ships…..

[@doc1665]

it has more than a passing resemblance to the old type 21 Amazon class of the Royal Navy

[@DiggingForFacts]

Which is ironic when you consider that its neigbour and potential regional rival Pakistan was taking most of their Amazon-class out of service as Iran started laying keels for these things.

[@timholden8670]

Iran operated Vosper Mk5 "Saar Class" Frigates. These were essentially export Type 21's. A number of these were sunk by the USN in operation Praying Mantis. Looks like they copied the hull design , replacing the hanger with an SM1 launcher.

[@bestestusername]

I wouldnt be to flippant regarding the older obsolete missle systems as the war in ukraine war has proved, if your not watching or ready your ship can be sunk.

[@Turf-yj9ei]

0:02 more like 💩brief 😂

[@jasonariola6363]

They are smart people , but their shop like all ships Can sink to the bottom also

[@jasonariola6363]

They takes a lot of tech to do that

[@Secular_Democratic_IRAN]

Thank you for taking the time to review this ship, whether you refer to it as a frigate or something else entirely. However, I must point out that the information provided seems quite dated. Notably absent from your analysis is any mention of Iran's supersonic cruise missiles, which have been undergoing extensive testing for over two years now. It appears likely that these advanced weapons will be integrated into the Iranian navy by 2024 or early 2025, marking a significant enhancement to its capabilities. Regarding the SM-1 missile you discussed, I believe you're referring to what is known in Iran as the Mehrab missile. This system surpasses the SM-1 in numerous aspects. Additionally, Iran possesses several newer generations of VLS technology, each offering advantages over the SM-1. Your reliance on reverse-engineering assumptions seems excessive, especially considering that many of these technologies may not even be accessible to Iran. Moreover, it's important to acknowledge that reverse engineering is a common practice across various militaries, including those of the United States, which has extensively utilized reverse engineering techniques for Soviet-era equipment. It's misleading to present these efforts as purely innovative developments without acknowledging the broader context of technological acquisition and adaptation. Comparing the navies of Iran and China to that of the United States is a challenging task, given the vast disparities in age and technology. Many of your naval vessels date back to World War II, yet you assert that China's modern navy is inferior to yours. This perspective seems somewhat skewed, particularly when considering recent advancements and investments made by China in its respective naval force. For instance, the Rails gun project, which was abandoned by the U.S. due to technical challenges, was successfully developed and refined by China, addressing the issues that led to its abandonment. This development underscores the capacity of other nations to innovate and adapt technologies, challenging the notion of American superiority in naval technology. In conclusion, while the United States undoubtedly holds a strong position in global military might, it is essential to recognize the progress and capabilities of other nations, such as Iran and China. The narrative of absolute American dominance overlooks the strides being made by other countries in naval technology and defense innovation. Have a good day.