Navy Preparing for Major Drill

Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced on Tuesday that naval forces have started conducting exercises to prepare for a major drill of the armed forces, which is scheduled to be held from December 25 to 31. The commander of the Navy said various warships, destroyers, submarines, missiles, aircraft and helicopters will be used and tested during the war game, which will be carried out in an area covering about 2.2 million square kilometers from the northern Indian Ocean to the east of the Strait of Hormuz and in large parts of the southern province of Hormozgan and the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, IRNA reported. “In the war game, the navy will use various weapons to display the might of the Islamic Iran in the open seas,” Sayyari said.