12/08/2010 UK’s The Sun reports:
More than 9,000 speedboats have been made with deadly explosives engineered into their hulls.
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.
Some CNN footage from earlier this year:
MSN is reporting that: The vessels, which will patrol the Persian Gulf where British and US forces operate, can be rammed into the side of “enemy” ships and each carries just enough explosives to rip a seven-metre hole in a boat”s keel, the report said.
Around 30,000 kamikaze captains are being trained to steer the ships, a source claimed.
And, there are plans to build 15,000 of the six-metre vessels. Their C4 explosives go off when rammed into larger ships, the report said.
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