16.04.2025, 11:18
Zitat:"Babak Taghvaee" details the operations of the Iranian Armed Forces on the coast of Pasabandar as they took part in the largescale joint exercise Zulfiqar-1403https://www.key.aero/article/guardians-pasabandar
The Iranian Air Force, Air Defence Force, Army Ground Force, and navy took part in the largest version of their Zulfiqar joint exercise in the southeast of Iran and the Oman Sea between February 22 and 25, 2025. The exercise involved 28 fixed-wing aircraft, 16 helicopters, and a large number of drones belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF), Islamic Republic of Iran Army Aviation (IRIAA), and Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Aviation (IRINA). The exercise missions were designed with the key objective of protecting Iranian territorial waters and coastline from coastal invasion by a foreign enemy in the southeast of Iran, with a secondary objective of maintaining the highest level of interoperability of the Iranian armed forces to protect the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb in the Hormuz Strait.
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Fourteen ships and vessels, along with four submarines of the Iranian Navy, participated in Zulfiqar-1403. Among these, one Ghadirclass submarine, two Sina-Class Fast Attack Crafts (including IRIS Zereh/P235), IRIS Bayandor corvette (IRIS 81), IRIS Jamaran frigate (IRIS 76), and IRIS Alvand frigate (IRIS 71) performed live cannon firing. A patrol boat also fired 107mm unguided rockets at the coastline of Pasabandar, in the southeast of Iran, during the second day of the exercise.
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