IRIS Shahid Bagheri

History
Iran
Name	Shahid Bagheri
Namesake	Bahman Bagheri
Operator	Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Builder	HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea[1]
Completed	2000
Commissioned	6 February 2025
In service	2025-
Homeport	Bandar Abbas
Identification	Pennant number: C110-4[2] Code letters:
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	GERMANISCHER LLOYD
Displacement	41,978 t (41,315 long tons; 46,273 short tons)
Length	240.2 m (788 ft 1 in)[3]
Beam	32.2 m (105 ft 8 in)
Draft	11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
Installed power	20000 KW
Speed	22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Endurance	1,000 days
Armament	1 × 30 mm auto-canon 8 × Noor or Qader anti-ship missiles 8 × Kowsar-222 SAMs
Aircraft carried	Able to carry different types of helicopters (e.g. Bell-412) and UAVs (e.g. JAS-313)[4]
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing deck

The IRIS Shahid Bagheri is a drone carrier operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy.^[2] She is the result of the 2022–2024 conversion of the container ship Perarin, to which was added an angled flightdeck with a ski-jump, in the manner of light aircraft carriers.^[5]

She is named after Shahid (martyr) Bahman Bagheri, an IRGC commander who died in Pathak, Iraq, in a clash of the Iran–Iraq war.^[6] The ship is the first full-service UAV carrier of the IRGC Navy. She was launched at sea for the first sea trials from her home port of Bandar Abbas sometime around 28 November 2024. Her launch underscored Tehran's efforts to project its power overseas, far beyond nearby waters.^[7] She was commissioned on 6 February 2025.^[8]