Press TV – Oct 12, 2012
Iran’s Armed Forces have launched a large-scale military exercise, involving air defense units and domestically-developed military hardware, with the goal of strengthening the protection of the country’s aerial borders and sensitive sites.
The joint aerial maneuvers, attended by air defense divisions of the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and codenamed Modafean Aseman Velayat 1400 (Guardians of Velayat Sky 1400), kicked off in the country’s central desert areas on Tuesday morning.
During the exercises, domestically-developed, air defense missile systems, radars, reconnaissance equipment, electronic warfare devices, communication systems and a visual surveillance network were put to test.
Commenting on the first phase of the drills, Brigadier General Qader Rahimzadeh, commander of the country’s Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base, said the deployment of air defense systems was carried out, with a special focus on mobility and rapid reaction of operational forces and in accordance with principles of passive defense to deceive the mock enemy.
Working in tandem with its air defence system, Iran has developed long range air defence radars. Click to enlarge
Moreover, secure and multi-layered communication links were established among defense systems, command and control centers, and the country’s integrated air defense network in order to adopt proper decisions in case of a threat.
Rahimzadeh added that manned and unmanned aircraft of the Army and IRGC conducted reconnaissance sorties over the area, before detection and combat systems carried out tactical and defensive operations against hostile aircraft. All stages of air defense, up to the phase of electronic impact (EI), were performed.
The senior Iranian military official said deployment of IRGC Regional Command and Control Systems (ROC), and operation of indigenous Me’raj, Fath-2, Bashir and Quds radar systems, tactical detection and reconnaissance systems, electro-optical systems in addition to electronic warfare systems were among other measures taken at the first stage of the war game.
He said control and command centers are using active and passive radar systems capable of signal and electro-optical monitoring of the exercise area during Guardians of Velayat Sky 1400 drill, and missile air defense systems will use artificial intelligence and decision-making techniques as they discover a hostile target to launch an attack.
Rahimzadeh added that the entire detection, reconnaissance, interception and missile systems that the Army and IRGC air defense units are employing in the drill are homegrown and manufactured by Iranian defense specialists.
“Formation of secure layers of air defense in order to protect the Islamic Republic of Iran’s airspace, besides comprehensive defense of sensitive centers of the country are among the objectives of the exercise. Air defense units and operational forces of the Army and the IRGC are skillfully and intelligently undertaking their tasks round the clock under the operational auspices and control of the country’s joint air defense base,” Rahimzadeh said.
Iran’s Armed Forces regularly hold military maneuvers to elevate their preparedness and military prowess.
The drills serve as a warning message to the enemies against any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
The jews told the USA that they would have to take out 7 middle east countries for them
as they wanted the whole of the middle east
the last country being iran
but thank god iran is standing up to the jew
this makes them our allie, as the jew is also th enemy of the christian
The Iranians understand the necessity of air superiority. They see that the US has only limited number of aircraft that it can lose before the voters notice and the whole operation becomes militarily and politically unsustainable.
The US would call on it’s favourite proxy – Britain – to supply more planes, but that is likely to go awry as the British have even fewer. After the Afghan disaster, even the incredibly stupid British voters are likely to be twitchy.
Some Moslems think the Earth is flat. All Iranian technology is Aryan, not Islamic.
So one nation of mongrels (Israel) doesn’t like another nation of mongrels (Iran). You’d think their polluted mongrel heritage would transcend their deranged religious differences…
@ HARRY
YES ! for the time beeing !
but remember they are igual
fanatic like the wahabi sunnis !
Just because a nation is dominated by islam doesn’t mean the people are any less than they appear. A good many Iranians even consider themselves superior to westerners because they profess to be nearer their Aryan roots. In case you folk hadn’t noticed both of us; Europeans and Middle Easterners are under attack by the slime ball jew and his puppets. Shia islam (eg Iran) remains relatively free of jew control unlike sunni islam that is riddled with the yid poison especially throughout Europe. These people are potential allies in the fight for survival. It seems to me that a good many folk on here should aquaint themselves with Brother David Lanes “Misplaced Hate” essay and some of his other writings come to that.
The jew is now mounting his major fight for world dominance we gentiles, anti jews all of us, need to be unifying and initiating a joint strategy for our mutual defence. Once we have rid the planet of the mongrel parasite, jewboy, then we can sort our differences in, hopefully, an amicable way and if we can’t do it amicably then at least some yid won’t be making millions of the war dead. Wake up ffs and try and see the bigger picture.