Iran to fire homemade missiles during navy drills
December 31st, 2011 - 8:33 am ICT by IANSTehran, Dec 31 (IANS) Iranian navy will fire various homemade missiles during the naval drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian commander was quoted by Press TV as saying.
The country’s naval units will fire different long- and short-range land-to-sea, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles during the power phase of the exercises, starting Saturday, Xinhua quoted the TV report citing Iranian navy’s deputy commander Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Mousavi as saying Friday.
Mousavi, who is also the spokesman for the drills, said that during the power phase of the exercises, Iran’s submarines will also hit the pre-determined targets, using domestically-manufactured torpedoes.
Naval forces will also fire shoulder-launched missiles and hit mock targets of the enemy, he added.
On Friday, the Iranian Navy launched the seventh day of major naval drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Last Saturday, the Iranian navy launched a 10-day exercise, dubbed Velayat 90, to cover a length of 2,000 km stretching from the east of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden.
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