Iran Exercises Air Defense Tactics Using Fighter Aircraft
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Air Defense on Monday conducted a preparatory operation during large-scale military drills in cooperation with fighter jets configured to mirror capabilities of air defense planes.
The air-based mission was carried out in cooperation with the Air Force, which flew its fighter jets to give assistance to the integrated network of the country’s Air Defense.
Thereafter, the Air Defense units identified, tracked, intercepted and downed a number of the mock enemy’s aircraft.
In a similar operation on Saturday, the Air Defense successfully hit aerial targets using a home-grown missile defense system paired with Shalamcheh missiles.
The Air Defense’s upgraded and indigenous missile defense system, dubbed Mersad, launched three Shalamcheh missiles after radars covering the wargame zone's airspace identified, tracked and intercepted the hypothetical enemy’s intruding aircraft.
Later, each of the three ground-to-air Iranian Shalamcheh missiles destroyed the point targets, namely three Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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.
