Ashura-class speedboat

The Ashura (Persian: عاشورا‎, also known as MIG-G-0800)[1] is a class of fast patrol boat used by naval forces of Iran.[2] It is a Boston Whaler type vessel based on a Watercraft UK design, and is manufactured domestically with hulls made of glass-reinforced plastic.[1]

Ashura-class speedboat

Class overview
Builders:	Marine Industries Organization
Operators:	Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Sudanese Armed Forces
General characteristics
Type:	Fast patrol boat
Displacement:	1 ton full load[1]
Length:	6.7 m (22 ft 0 in)[1]
Beam:	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)[1]
Draught:	0.4 m (1 ft 4 in)[1]
Installed power:	Diesel
Propulsion:	2 × outboard engines, 240 horsepower (0.18 MW)[1]
Speed:	40 knots (74 km/h) (estimate)[1]
Complement:	4[1]
Armament:	Various, including: 1 × 12.7mm machine gun 1 × 107mm 12-barelled MRL

Types

Ashura speedboats are able to carry various guns, including heavy machine guns and multiple rocket launchers.[1] There are versions with installed ZU-23-2 autocannon, DShK machine gun, and modified to carry a single naval mine.[2]

• 
  Minelayer version
• 
  Trooper version
• 
  MLR and machine gun equipped version

Export

From 1992 to 1994, Sudan purchased at least seven Ashura boats from Iran.[3]

References

1. Saunders, Stephen; Philpott, Tom, eds. (2015), "Iran", IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015–2016, Jane's Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.), Coulsdon: IHS Jane's, p. 391, ISBN 9780710631435, OCLC 919022075
2. Haghshenass, Fariborz (September 2008), Iran’s Asymmetric Naval Warfare (PDF) (Policy Focus), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, p. 12
3. Saunders, Stephen; Philpott, Tom, eds. (2015), "Sudan", IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2015–2016, Jane's Fighting Ships (116th Revised ed.), Coulsdon: IHS Jane's, p. 792, ISBN 9780710631435, OCLC 919022075