Iranian speedboat fires missiles with a range of 700km.

According to Tasnim, the Rajab 27th is a generation of fast attack craft with a triple-hull design, which enhances stability and maneuverability in harsh maritime conditions.

This high-speed vessel is equipped with powerful anti-ship capabilities, featuring two cruise missiles with an effective range of up to 700km.

The Rajab 27th vessel is also designed to operate in sea conditions with waves up to 3 meters high while maintaining high maneuverability.

The launch of the new high-speed vessel underscores the ongoing development of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy's fast attack maritime capabilities and missile armaments, which play a crucial role in Iran's naval defense strategy and operations in the southern seas.

According to the American military website War Zone, it is not large warships but rather small, high-speed boats that constitute the formidable power of the IRGC Navy.

These are highly mobile vessels, equipped with a wide variety of weapons, and are more difficult to detect than traditional naval ships.

The US military claims to have sunk half of Iran's speedboats, but has not given a specific number, while experts estimate that the IRGC still possesses hundreds to thousands of such vehicles.

Attempts to verify the exact number are difficult, as these boats cannot be detected in satellite imagery and they also have many hiding places.

"This remains a force capable of disrupting and threatening the Strait of Hormuz. We will never know what Iran intends to do or what their intentions are," commented retired Admiral Gary Roughead, a former U.S. Navy combat commander.

The US possesses a numerical advantage in weaponry and technological expertise, and is also the world's leading superpower in naval warfare, making confrontation with them through traditional methods unfeasible.

Therefore, Iran's fleet of small vessels was developed for guerrilla warfare at sea, taking advantage of the terrain when there are no alternative routes for ships stranded inside and outside the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian high-speed boats can reach speeds of 150-180 km/h and carry a variety of weapons, including anti-ship cruise missiles. This force can deploy from multiple directions, simultaneously launching missiles to make interception efforts by the enemy difficult.

The firepower of a group of high-speed boats is often equal to or greater than that of traditional surface vessels, but their high dispersion capability makes them much harder to attack and neutralize.

"The number of warships needed to protect shipping in the region would be enormous and would consume vast resources," Sidharth Kaushal, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), stated when discussing the danger posed by Iran's small fleet of vessels.

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