“Military maneuvers [conducted by Iran] entail no message because we are not looking for war with any country,” Firouzabadi said on Wednesday about massive seven-day military maneuver codenamed Modafe'an-e Aseman-e Velayat 4 (Defenders of the Skies of Velayat 4), which is underway in eastern Iran.
“These drills are merely practice for preparedness, and for testing new weapons and latest tactics,” the Iranian commander added.
Iran’s Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are jointly staging the massive military drill which began on Monday.
An upgraded high-precision long-range S-200 ground-to-air defense system, and two indigenous missile systems named Qader and Ya Zahra III were successfully tested on Wednesday.
Electronic and surveillance systems used to detect and intercept manned and unmanned enemy aircraft flying at low altitude, Iran Air Force F-14 and F-4 fighter jets, artillery fire, shoulder-launched weapons as well as low-altitude missile systems were also tested during the third day of the maneuver.
The drills cover an area of 950,000 square kilometers in the provinces of Khorasan Razavi, North Khorasan, South Khorasan, Sistan-and-Baluchestan, Hormozgan, and Kerman as well as parts of Fars and Yazd provinces.
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