Iran’s navy on Monday added a destroyer able to launching cruise missiles to its Caspian Sea fleet, state media reported.

The 1,400-ton Deilaman destroyer, named for a city in north of Iran, is 95 meters (312 toes) lengthy and 11 meters (36 toes) huge and is ready to launch torpedoes whereas touring at 30 knots (56 kph, 35 mph), the state-owned IRNA information company mentioned.

Deilaman can detect greater than 100 targets, together with vessels, drones, helicopters, submarines and plane, concurrently, the report mentioned.

During a ceremony marking the inauguration of Deilaman, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of the Armed Forces General Staff known as the Caspian a “sea of peace and friendship” and mentioned Iran’s naval energy there’ll serve “peace, security of commercial fleets, confronting terrorists and probable incidents in the future.”

This is the sixth warship Iran has commissioned within the Caspian Sea, the biggest inland physique of water on the planet, shared by Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.

Iran’s warships have made occasional visits to Russian and Azerbaijani naval bases within the sea in recent times, however Iran has additionally criticized Azerbaijan for its shut navy ties with Israel, which Iran sees as an archenemy.

While Russia is the largest naval energy within the Caspian, Iran has tried to have a naval presence within the sea because the late Nineteen Sixties, and has been including to its power because the Nineties. Iran additionally has three naval bases on the shores of the ocean.