Tasnim A large-scale military exercise by Irans Air Defense resumed across southern regions of the country on Tuesday with missile drills to target hostile drones.
The chief plans on the second day of the war game, codenamed Defenders of Velayat Skies 7, includes detection and interception of the hypothetical enemys unmanned aerial vehicles ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli announced the country's plan to unveil two new home-made radar systems on September 1 and stage air defense wargames late autumn.
"Bina and Nazir radar systems will be unveiled in two mountainous and plain areas on September 1 concurrently with Air Defense ...
By Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says the military will test a new air defense system modeled after the U.S. Hawk system.
Monday's report says the surface-to-air system has been named "Mersad," or Ambush. The report says it's capable of locking a flying object at a distance of 80 kilometers (50 miles) and can hit it from ...
[caption id="attachment_110590" align="alignright" width="284"] The file photo shows Irans Matla-ul-Fajr-1 (Breaking Dawn) radar system in operation.[/caption]
Iran has carried out a one-day air defense exercise in the country's southeastern region of Chabahar.
The drill, dubbed Mesbaholhoda,primarily involvedthe Chabahar air defence units, said ...
Iran has completed the second phase of an air defense maneuver in the southeastern parts of the country.
Considering the sensitivity of the southeastern air defense zone and its adjacency to the Persian Gulf littoral states, the one-day Mesbaholhoda drill was planned for this air defense zone and its second phase has been carried out, said Deputy ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Armed Forces staged daylong massive air defense drills in the Persian Gulf's air defense zone to elevate the level of their preparedness against any possible hostile drone flights over the country's territorial waters and islands.
According to a statement by Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, during the exercises codenamed ...
By Reuters
(Reuters) -Iranunveiled new missile and artillery systems on Tuesday, Iranian media reported, on the second day of large-scale military exercises which officials said were aimed at sending a warning to those threatening the Islamic Republic.
Played out against a backdrop of high tension betweenIranand the West over Tehran's nuclear ...
Iran is set to unveil new indigenously-designed and -produced missile systems in the massive seven-day joint maneuver, codenamed Modafe'an-e Aseman-e Velayat 4 (Defenders of the Velayat Skies 4), Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base has announced on Tuesday.
Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili ...
By Reuters
DUBAI, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Iran launched military drills across half the country on Monday, warning it would act against aggressors less than a week after Washington accused Iranian warplanes of firing on a U.S. drone.
The manoeuvres will take place this week across 850,000 square kilometres (330,000 square miles) of Iran's northeast,...
The Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are scheduled to hold a massive joint drill in the eastern parts of the country, a senior Army commander says.
Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Command Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili announced that the 7-day maneuver dubbed "Modafean-e Aseman-e Velayat 4," (Defenders ...
By Fox News
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's official news agency says the country's military will hold "massive" air defense maneuvers in the east, starting this weekend.
Gen. Farzad Esmaili, head of Iran's air defense headquarters, says the drill will include Iranian jet fighters, drones, air defense systems and about 8,000 troops.
Esmaili is quoted ...
In their powerful presence in military parades honoring the Sacred Defense Week, Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran displayed Iran's latest achievements in defense and military hardware.
The Sacred Defense Week commemorates the braveries of the Iranian soldiers who fought in the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war and defended their country from ...
By The Telegraph
Iran will stage massive manoeuvres next month in a muscle-flexing show of preparedness to combat a US or Israeli aerial bombardment on its nuclear installations.
The exercise is being showcased as the biggest air defence war game in the Islamic Republic's history and will be Iran's most visible response yet to mounting speculation ...
By Reuters
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran has built about 30 percent of a missile defence system it is developing in place of the Russian S-300 system Moscow refused to sell it, and hopes to complete the system by next year, a senior military official said on Monday
Farzad Esmaili, commander of the army's air defence force, also reiterated that ...
By Reuters
(Reuters) -Iranwill hold a large-scale military drill involving all its air defence systems next month, an Iranian commander was quoted as saying on Saturday, one of a number of military simulations it has carried out this year.
The air defence drill will include fighter jets and simulate emergency situations, said Farzad Esmaili, ...