FNA - Iranian Army Deputy Commander for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that the country's Naval forces will be equipped with new military equipment, including a home-made destroyer and a submarine, soon in future.

"We plan to deliver a destroyer and a submarine to the Navy in the near future and we will also unveil new achievements in areas of air defense, ground force and air force," Rear Admiral Sayyari said, addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday.

He added that Iran has gained self-sufficiency in military and scientific training as well as production of equipment.

Iran has made major achievements in manufacturing different weapons and military equipment.

In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi underlined that the country's experts had decreased the time needed for manufacturing destroyers to less than two years, adding that a new destroyer and a submarine would be delivered to his forces soon.

"Today, we enjoy the capacity to build destroyers in a timespan of less than two years and we are making efforts to reduce it to less than one year," Rear Admiral Khanzadi said in an interview with the Arabic-language al-Alam news channel.

He added that a new home-made destroyer named Sahand that carries helicopters, and a new domestically-manufactured submarine named Fateh would join the Iranian navy in the near future.

"Fateh will be a surprise for the trans-regional threats and they (the enemies) should wait for its delivery to the Islamic Republic's Navy," Rear Admiral Khanzadi said.

Late in July, Rear Admiral Khanzadi announced that the construction jobs and naval tests on the home-made destroyer, Sahand, were also being accomplished, adding that it would be put into operation by the end of this fall along with Dena.

"Fateh submarine which is the first mid-class submarine built by the Islamic Republic of Iran will also be unveiled soon," Rear Admiral Khanzadi said.

He also referred to efforts to overhaul Damavand, a destroyer which sunk in the Caspian Sea in January after it suffered damages during the stormy weather of Anzali Port in Northern Iran, and said overhaul of the giant vessel would end by the yearend "and it will have the same, and even more, capabilities in less than two years".