Bayandor-class Patrol Frigate, IIS Milanian (F 27)

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Bayandor-class/PF 103-class Patrol Frigate, IIS Milanian (F 27)

During builder’s trials

TL;DR:
Coastal vessel, American-built Iranian corvette with two DP 76mm guns, a twin Bofors, and depth charges aplenty. Like the Akebono/Ikazuchi in the Japan tree if it looked like the Italian Albatros.

Overview:
The Bayandor-class patrol frigates were built for Iran under the American Military Assistance Program. Their design was based on the Italian Pattimura-class corvettes built for Indonesia. The ships were ordered in 1962 and built by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Texas, with the preliminary designations of PF 103 - 106. The ships were armed like typical US vessels, with two DP 76mm guns, a twin Bofors, and a large amount of ASW weaponry. They were delivered to Iran in 1964-1969, serving in the Imperial Iranian Navy and named after Iranian naval officers killed in action during the WW2 invasion of Iran. They fought in the Iran-Iraq war, where two of them were sunk. The remaining two are still in service today, albeit heavily modernized with modern guns and anti-ship missiles.

Milanian was the 3rd Bayandor-class patrol frigate, commissioned in 1968. The ship had a somewhat brief service, first in the Shah’s imperial navy, and later the republican navy. Like the other ships it underwent a small refit in the 1970s, with its Hedgehog launcher replaced with an AA gun. It fought in the Iraq-Iran War, and was sunk in 1982 with its sister Kahnamuie by Iraqi aircraft.

Specifications: (1968)

Armament:
2x1 76mm Mk.34
1x2 40mm Bofors L/60
1x24 Hedgehog DCT
4 DCTs and 2 DCRs (60 DCs)

Displacement:
800 tons standard
1135 tons full

Length: 83.8m

Beam: 10m

Draft: 3m

Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines, 5800 hp, driving 2 shafts

Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)

Range: 3000 nmi (at 15 knots)

Crew: 133-140

Systems:
Mk.57 fire director
AN/SPG-34 tracking radar
AN/SPS-6 search radar
Raytheon navigation radar
SQS-17 sonar

​Images:

Note the ZU-23-2 AA gun at the bow
Drawings:

Sources:
Gardiner, R., Chumbley, S., & Budzbon, P. (1995). Iran. In Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1947-1995 (p. 184). Naval Institute Press.
Sayers, K. (2021). U.S. Navy Patrol Vessels (pp. 440, 467). McFarland.

Bayandor-class corvette

Images:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/08105.htm

IRIS Milanian 83

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IIS_27_Milanian_(ship,_1969)

[NotKringe]

Admittedly, this is one of the less interesting Iranian ship since they are better known for absurdly fast and light speedboats. Though I’ll still give it +1 just to fill the slot of tanky coastal vessel.

[Kingtiez]

+1