Iran released images and footage Monday of what it said was a newly armed base of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps with naval and ballistic missiles and “electronic warfare” equipment, the country’s state TV reported.
The report referred to the foundation as a “city of missiles” and showed layers of the appearance of missiles in a cement-walled depot. He did not give details of the location or number of missiles stored there.
Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Revolutionary Guards elite naval unit, told state TV that the base had equipment to detect enemy signals.
The report said the base’s “electronic warfare equipment” included radar, surveillance, simulation and riot systems.
“What we are seeing today is just a small fraction of the large and wide-ranging missile capability of the Revolutionary Guards naval forces,” Guard chief Major General Hossein Salami said in the broadcast.
Last July, the Guard launched underground ballistic missiles as part of an exercise in which an American aircraft carrier was deceived into the Straits of Hormuz, highlighting their network of underground missile sites.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Defense Agency is launching underground ballistic missiles as part of an exercise
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Since 2011, Iran has boasted of underground facilities across the country as well as the south coast near the strategic Hormuz Strait. Iran says it has missiles that can travel 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), putting much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.
The U.S. and its Western allies see Iran’s missile program as a threat, along with the country’s nuclear program – especially after Tehran gradually broke its promises for a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, after for the Trump administration to be withdrawn from the contract in 2018.
Since Iran’s bloody war in the 1980s with Iraq, which saw both countries firing missiles at cities, Iran has developed its ballistic missile program as a deterrent, especially as the DA’s military embargo prevents it. from purchasing high-tech weapon systems. The underground tunnels help protect these weapons, including missiles with melt fuel that can only be fired for a short time.