Iran's ship building is far from pitiful what's pitiful is the funding allocated to build Naval vessels and Iran's extremely low military budget.
The fact that a country the size of Iran spends nearly $10 Billion USD less than the UAE on it's Military is the real problem. Especially in a country that's capable of building over 97% of it's yearly allocations because the more you spend the more high end jobs you create and the more money you inject into the economy not the mention the R&D aspect that pushes the growth of technology, infrastructure including human infrastructure and skilled workers that will all eventually lead to a larger number of more advanced military and high end civilian products.
But what I can promise Iran will NOT do is purchase a new warships from another country! Because given Iran's own capabilities that would be absurd because the problem we have today when it comes to building larger ships is financial not technological or industrial!
You simply don’t understand basic concepts.
Turkey that has a GDP DOUBLE that of Iran has military budget of 13-14 billion. So Iran is actually well within simple economics for its military budget.
Iran recently hacked Australia’s Navy shipbuilder, why? Because it needs access to MODERN warship designs.
The fact that you think Iran can just simply enlarge the Mowj shows your lack of knowledge!
The Mowj is a 1960’s design, I don’t care how much lipstick you put on a pig, at the end of the day it is not a Victoria secret model! It is a pig!
And the thing you don’t understand about a country like UAE or Qatar or KSA is they have SMALL POPULATIONS but VERY LARGE income from oil/gas. Thus have a lot of extra money to spend. You can’t compare Iran to these countries.
Iran has a LARGE population and is under SEVERE sanctions. Furthermore, it had to spend BILLIONS to prop up Syria from falling during the foreign sponsored war.
So yes, Iran’s military is low compared to countries that have low expenditure, but high revenue. But compared to other countries (like Turkey) it’s well within reasonable.
If you expect Iran to build an armada or conduct a massive military build up, you are looking at the wrong country.
The thing holding Iran back is not money (IRGC is swimming in it from illegal activities). It is the factions of the republic and the rivalry between these factions. Until all factions get paid they will prevent the smallest change from happening within the republic least it help another faction become more powerful.
This is why Nazi Germany and Communist China were able to become so powerful so quickly. It was a one party system that squashed dissent and shared one ideology, one goal.
Iran in comparison is a hundred party system. It is even more dysfunctional than capitalistic and socialistic western countries.
Prior to 1979 Iran was pumping the most oil in its history at over 6 Million BPD. A feat never achieved during IRI even though more oil fields have come online and technology advancement has been rapid.
In 1979 China was one of the poorest countries in the world. 90% or 9 out of 10 people lived In poverty (less than 2 dollars a day). By 2012 that number fell to 6.5%
The thing holding Iran back from full potential is Iran itself. If the problems could magically be solved by increasing military budget, don’t you think Rahbar would do that? Or do you think you are the smartest Iranian on the planet and can lead Iran to greatness?
Iran buying a few destroyers from China or Russia to understand modern naval design is a drop in the bucket compared to expecting these Mowj ships to do anything besides be propaganda toys.
