Iranian Navy Exercises Targeting Submarines Using New Torpedo
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Navy’s choppers destroyed a hypothetical enemy submarine by dropping a new type of domestically-made torpedo.
The exercise was among military operations carried out by Navy units at the fifth day of the large-scale military drills underway in south and southeast of the country.
After detecting the target, the Iranian Navy’s SH-3D helicopters fired new state-of-the-art torpedoe and destroyed the hypothetical enemy submarine.
It is the first time that the new torpedo is fired from the SH-3D helicopters in a military drill.
The torpedo has completely been designed and manufactured by the Iranian experts at the Navy’s Industrial Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization.
The ongoing drills, codenamed “Muhammad Rasulullah” (Muhammad, the messenger of God), began on Thursday and are expected to run until December 31.
The exercises are held at an area of 2.2 million square kilometers, stretching from the northern Indian Ocean (10 degrees latitude) to the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and in the southern and southeastern Iranian provinces of Hormozgan and Sistan and Balouchestan.
The Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient in the arms sphere.
Tehran has always assured other nations that its military might poses no threat to the regional countries, saying that the Islamic Republic’s defense doctrine is entirely based on deterrence.
