Iran "کوسه - اولین زیر دریایی ایران "First Iranian submarine

In the mid 1970's the Imperial Iranian Navy signed a contract to purchase three U.S. submarines from the U.S. Navy. One of these submarines named Kooseh or Shark was purchased for $650,000 with an additional 26 million dollars spent for its complete overhaul. The Imperial Iranian Navy sent their best officers and sailors to the U.S. so they could be trained at a U.S. submarine school. The Iranian officers and sailors spent more that 2 years in Groton Connecticut training side by side U.S. naval officers. Kooseh was delivered to the Imperial Iranian Navy in 1978. It was being prepared for its journey to Iran with its new Iranian crew when the Iranian Revolution took place. The new government refused to take the vessel despite the fact that it had already been paid for by Iran. The crew had to return the submarine to the U.S. Navy and return to Iran without the submarine. This never seen before film shows the ceremony of transferring the vessel back to the U.S. Navy and other footage of the Iranian crew inside the submarine. The U.S. Navy continued to charge IRI $70,000 a month to maintain the vessel and eventually seized the submarine as part of the Iranian assets during the hostage crises. The Submarine was later decommissioned and sold to a company in Florida using it as a research vessel.

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[bjt614]

@maydayfire At least when they were buying stuff from their master, the master would deliver the goods. Let see if the IRI master the Russians do the same thing (S-300 missile).

[afrasiabful]

@maydayfire Is best not to have any master, but if you are forced to have master is better to have an American master than a Chinese or Russian master. Russians they only milk you until you are dry and the Chinese take everything and instead they give screw driver and screw. Now Islamic Republic kissing Chinese and Russian haemorrhoids and all they get is CRAP

[Artavahisht]

How Time changes, yesterday we get garbages of american army, today we built our own Submarines & the americans must find new clients for their garbage.

[payambreaker]

@maydayfire

WTF, IRI makes its own?!!!!!!! that is absolutely bullshit, IRI can make shit, all they do is purchasing the oldest trash from Russia and China with the Oil's money. Iran is economically deep in shit you Idiot. who do you think you are fooling?!!

[payams100]

@maydayfire You really are delusional! Most of IRI planes are inoperable!! You sound like Iranian TV propaganda!

[maydayfire]

purchase was all they could do back then from their masters. Now IRI makes its own, This is the positive side of the sanctions.

[iranpanah2007]

faghato faghat bahram 9821 no1 barbax irooni utube va bas

[WineRedX]

Vey in tresting bahram jan,thank you .

[kessmypersainass]

another pice of equpiment america tole

[kmarefat]

Very informative and sad. Thank you fro posting. On a happier note, this sub has one and only one crew, the captain. Single handedly he operates everything and is present everywhere!