The Iranian Army unveiled on Monday homegrown suicide drones and torpedoes during a massive military exercise codenamed Zolfaqar-1400 in the country’s southeastern coastal areas and naval zones.
In a rapid operation on Monday during the main stage of the joint drill, the Iranian Army Ground Force’s “Arash” suicide drones flew a long distance to hit the targets with high accuracy.
The reconnaissance drones also monitored the drill zone before the Army’s combat UAVs destroyed the hypothetical enemy’s vessels, Tasnim news agency reported.
According to a spokesman for the exercise, the homegrown “Mersad” air defense missile system also hit a series of targets on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Navy’s submarines detonated various naval targets with homegrown torpedoes during the war game.
The Iranian ‘Tareq’ and ‘Qadir’ submarines launched a domestically-manufactured torpedo called ‘Valfajr’ to hit the naval targets, Iranian media reported.
The spokesman for the drill said the Tareq submarine has also laid DM-1 mines during the exercise.
In another operation, the offshore naval units could jam the radars of the hypothetical enemy stationed on the coast by flying ‘Omid’, an anti-radiation homegrown drone used for electronic warfare.
The ongoing war game covers an area of over one million square kilometers southeast of Iran, stretching from the eastern parts of the Strait of Hormuz to the northern parts of the Indian Ocean, down to the 10-degrees latitude, and parts of the Red Sea.
Troops serving in the Iranian Army’s infantry, armored units, mechanized regiments, Navy, Air Force, and Air Defense have taken part in the main stage of the exercise.
In comments at a press conference on Saturday, Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the drill is aimed at raising the combat and defense capabilities of the Army units in protecting the country’s territorial integrity.
He also noted that the Iranian troops will be demonstrating the Islamic Republic’s power in remote waters during the war game, warning the enemies that any act of aggression against Iran will draw a crushing response from the Army.
Source: Iranian media
