Iran building suicide speedboats
The Iranians are setting up a unit of Kamikazes on water. More than 9,000 speedboats have been made with deadly explosives engineered into their hulls.More from Jammie Wearing Fool here.
The vessels - to patrol the Persian Gulf where UK forces operate - will be piloted by extremist "martyrs".
They can be rammed into the side of "enemy" ships and each carries enough explosives to rip a seven-metre hole in a boat's keel.
Around 30,000 kamikaze captains are being trained to steer the ships, a source claimed.
There are plans to build 15,000 of the six-metre vessels. Their C4 explosives go off when rammed into larger ships.
An Iranian defector asked to design the crafts revealed the secret plot after fleeing the country - led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The ex-military engineer, said: "They wanted me to help build a vast fleet of suicide boats. It's shocking. That amount of explosives is deadly. I love Iran and that's why I'm revealing this. No one in Iran wants a war."
A US vessel was attacked by a suicide boat in 2000, killing 17, in Yemen.
Labels: Iran, Persian Gulf, suicide speedboats
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