Iranian Air Defence Exercise

Iran's air defense units exercised their capability of targetting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) during massive air defense drills in the Southern province of Bushehr. Iranian forces shot down a hypothetical enemy's drone on the final day of Sarallah military drills. 

The air defense units of Iran's Army deployed various systems on Thursday to counter low-altitude aerial threats and successfully identified and destroyed the mock enemy's UAVs and radar-evading aircraft at an altitude of around 10,000 feet (about 3 kilometers). 

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Iranian navy ships return from Syria

Two Iranian warships sent by Tehran to the Mediterranean last week to help “train the Syrian navy” entered the Suez canal early on Tuesday on their way back to Iran, a canal authorities source told AFP, as Tehran warned it would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered.The ships, a destroyer and supply vessel, came from the Syrian port of Tartous and were heading south towards the Red Sea, the source said, adding that they were due to complete their transit of the canal by Tuesday afternoon.

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Iran warships enter the Mediterranean

Iranian warships today entered the Mediterranean Sea after crossing the Suez Canal in a move aimed at showing Iran's "might" to regional countries, navy commander Admiral Habibollah Sayari said. "The strategic navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has passed through the Suez Canal for the second time since the (1979) Islamic Revolution," Sayari said in remarks quoted by the official IRNA news agency. 

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Iranian Saeqeh Single Seat Fighter Jet Armed With Rockets & Bombs

The Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) fighter jet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force displayed with rockets & bombs in ground attack configuration.

 

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Saudi Arabia threatens to go nuclear if Iran does

Saudi Arabia would launch a military nuclear program immediately if Iran successfully developed atomic weapons, The Times of London reported Friday. While Riyadh signed an agreement with the US in 2008 stating that it would only pursue nuclear power for civil purposes, the Saudi government is likely to abandon the deal if Tehran had a nuclear bomb. 

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Iran begins naval exercises near Gulf strait

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began naval manoeuvres today in the latest show of force near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions.

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New Iranian missile 'could strike US'

IRAN is developing a missile capable of hitting the east coast of the US, according to an Israeli government minister, intensifying Western anxiety over the Tehran regime's nuclear ambitions. The fresh alert was further heightened by reports that US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by Israel is likely, and could come as soon as April.

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Iranian Laser Guided Artillery Round

Iranian 152mm/155mm laser-guided artillery round is said to be capable of targeting the stationary or moving targets and has a range of around 20 kilometres.

 

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Iranian Fighter Aircrafts Escorting Russian Air Force's Su-27 Flankers

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US Bunker Buster Bomb To Target Iran

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Iran Test Fires Qader/ Noor Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (AShM)

Iranian navy has test fired the long range Qader (Mighty in Farsi) anti-ship cruise missile during the Velayat-90 naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz. 

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Iranian Fateh Class Diesel-Electric Submarine

Iranian Navy has inducted new 600-ton domestically produced Fateh (Conqueror) diesel-electric submarine which is far more capable then the Ghadir class submarines.

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Iranian Navy's Kilo Class Diesel Electric Submarines

The Kilo class diesel-electric submarines (SSK) of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN).

 

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Iranian F-14 Tomcat Fighter Jet Crashes In Southern Iran

The F-14 Tomcat fighter jet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has crashed іn Bushehr province of Iran.

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Iran to test-fire domestically manufactured S-300 missiles

Iran will soon test-fire its new domestically manufactured long-range anti-aircraft missiles, including a system similar to the Russian S-300 missile system, Brigadier General Mohammad Hassan Mansourian said on Wednesday.

“In order to meet some of the country’s security needs, (Iran) planned to purchase the S-300 from Russia, but due to pressure by the United States and the Zionist regime, that country used (UN) Resolution 1929 as an excuse not to deliver the defensive weapon to our country,” Mansourian told the IRNA news agency. The S-300 system, which can track targets and fire at aircraft 120 kilometers (75 miles) away, features high jamming immunity and is able to simultaneously engage up to 100 targets.

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North Korea is Exporting Nuclear and Missile Technology to Iran, Syria and Myanmar: UN

A report by U.N. experts saying North Korea is exporting banned nuclear and missile technology to Iran, Syria and Myanmar has been sent to the Security Council after China dropped its objections, U.N. diplomats said.The findings by the seven-member panel monitoring the implementation of sanctions against North Korea were first reported by The Associated Press in May.The experts said North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions. It called for further study of these suspected activities and urged all countries to try to prevent them.

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Iran builds unmanned reconnaissance hand-launched drone

Iranian researchers have built an unmanned reconnaissance drone which needs no runway and is able to be launched with hand."Parts of the light drone can be carried in a backpack by military and assembled in the minimum time, "said the Director General of the Iranian company which has built the aircraft, Saeed Shadravanan."The hand-launched drone can be assembled at most in two minutes, it is radar-evasive, composite and carries minimum metal."It is charged with batteries making it possible for the plane to fly for 45 minutes.

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Iran has No Plans to Buy S-300 Air Defense from China, Venezuela

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi dismissed media reports that Tehran has tried to buy Russia's sophisticated anti-aircraft S-300 missile system from third parties."We don't have any plan to buy S-300 from other countries," Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a national congress here in Tehran on Wednesday. Also in response to reporters' repeated questions about Tehran's possible plans for purchasing the S-300 missile shield from China, he underlined, "We don't have any such plan at present." He also rejected media reports that the S-300 deal has been rechanneled through a third party, namely Venezuela, and stressed reports alleging that Iran plans to buy the S-300 missile defense system that Russia has sold to Venezuela are baseless rumors.

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Russia Sell S-300 Missiles to Venezuela, Instead of Iran

Russia's S-300 air defense systems, which Moscow refused to deliver to Iran following a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, could be sold to Venezuela instead, a Russian arms trade expert said on Friday.Russia signed a deal to deliver five battalions of S-300PMU-1 air defense systems to Iran in 2007 but banned the sale in September, saying the systems, along with a number of other weapons, were covered by the fourth round of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against Iran over its nuclear program in June.

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Blasts hit secret Iranian missile launching-pad for US, Israeli targets

A top-secret Iranian military installation was struck by a triple blast Tues. Oct. 12 the day before Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon. debkafile's military and intelligence sources report the site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war - some set to deliver triple warheads (tri-conic nosecones).

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