{"id":27341,"date":"2024-07-09T17:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=27341"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:58:45","slug":"iranian-warship-sahand-entirely-sinks-despite-rebalancing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/iranian-warship-sahand-entirely-sinks-despite-rebalancing-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Warship Sahand Entirely Sinks despite Rebalancing Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Navy frigate Sahand entirely sank in shallow waters on Tuesday in the southern port of Bandar Abbas.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Sahand warship, which was rebalanced on the water with great difficulty on Monday, has now sunk after the rope holding the ship broke,&#8221;.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, state media said the ship had capsized during repairs at a wharf due to water ingress and that efforts were being made to rebalance it.<br \/>\nThe Iranian-built stealth warship was first launched in 2018 and is equipped with a flight deck for helicopters, torpedo launchers, anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and electronic warfare capabilities according to local media.<br \/>\nIran has developed a large domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes that have barred it from importing many weapons.<br \/>\nIt launched its first locally made destroyer in 2010 as part of a program to revamp its navy equipment, which dates from before the 1979 Iranian revolution and is mostly US-made.<br \/>\nIn 2021, the Iranian Navy ship Kharg sank after catching fire in the Gulf of Oman during a training mission, without causing casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Navy frigate Sahand entirely sank in shallow waters on Tuesday in the southern port of Bandar Abbas. &#8220;The Sahand warship, which was rebalanced on the water with great difficulty on Monday, has now sunk after the rope holding the ship broke,&#8221;. On Sunday, state media said the ship had capsized during repairs at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27343,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341\/revisions\/27343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}