Set sail

Old freighter now serves Iran as an “aircraft carrier”

The Frankenstein aircraft carrier Shahid Bahman Bagheri used to be a container ship and as such was called Perarin.(Bild: AFP)

The Iranian navy is celebrating the commissioning of a new warship - a very unusual one, as the Shahid Bahman Bagheri is actually a container ship that previously sailed the world's oceans as a civilian merchant barge. Following its conversion, it is now set to spread terror among Tehran's enemies as a fake "aircraft carrier".

Engineers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had been welding on the ship for almost two years, but a few days ago the time had finally come and the first drone took off from the flight deck. Propaganda images show two different drone models on the "aircraft carrier", and various manned helicopters are also to be stationed on board. Krone+ reveals what Iran intends to do with the patchwork warship and what weapons it is carrying in addition to drones and helicopters.