Velayat-90 Military Maneuvers (6)

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Sailors equipped with Iranian made G3 battle rifles

IRINS Gorz (PGGF 228) Kaman (Combattante II) class fast attack craft-missile

Foreground: Hendijan class tender (PBO 1410)

Bayandor (PF 103) class corvette

IRINS Larak (LSLH 512) Hengam class landing ship

IRINS Jamaran (FFGH 76) Moudge class light frigate

with IRINA Agusta AB-212ASW helicopter

Background: Alvand (Vosper Mk 5) class light frigate (FFG)

Ghadir class coastal submarine (SSC)

IRINS Kharg (AORH 431) Kharg class replenishment ship

Background: Delvar class support ship

IRINS Bandar Abbas (AORLH 421) Bandar Abbas class fleet supply ship

Yunes (Kilo/Project 877) class (SSK) diesel-electric submarine

IRINS Jamaran followed by two Alvand class light frigates

Background: IRINS Azadi (PB 202) Kaivan class large patrol boat

Regional foreign military observers, left to right: Syrian brigadier general and commodore

Photos: Hamed Jafarnejad at Fars News Agency

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Qader ("Capable") anti-ship missile fired from mobile dual launcher.

Claimed range is 200 kilometers.

AShM dual launcher with retractable canvas covering

Extended box launchers for longer Qader AShMs

Nasr ("Victory") anti-ship missile fired from mobile multiple launcher

Foreground: AShM mobile triple launcher

High ranking Artesh officers

Marine or Naval Commandos equipped with G3 battle rifles

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Iran Navy Agusta AB-212 ASW and SH-3D Sea King (AS-61) helicopters

Iranian commando frogman dropped from Agusta SH-3D Sea King

Iranian commando frogman team in inflatable rubber raiding craft

Assortment of FB type and Ashura class inshore patrol craft (PBF)

and a Sea-Doo RXT-X 255 watercraft, all manned by IRI Marines

FB type equipped with 107 mm MLRS in action

Late model Sea-Doo RXT-X 255 watercraft

Inshore patrol craft firing HM-23 16 round 122mm MLRS

Gunners loading a 16 round 122mm MLRS

IRI Marines armed with G3A4 battle rifles

IRIAF McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II fighter-bomber

IRIN Commander Read Admiral Sayyari with a commodore and lieutenant junior grade

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Iran Marines armed with MP5 SMGs

Marines aboard FB type HSPB

Marine boarding in a simulated assault

Ghadir class IS-120 coastal submarine (SSC)

Ghadir apparently crewed by IRIN

Background: Mk III class coast patrol craft (PB)

Kilo class (Project 877 EKM) diesel-electric submarine (SSK)

Crew of a Kaman (Combattante II) class fast attack craft-missile (PGGF)

Bridge of a Kaman fast attack craft-missile

IRIN officer aboard Kaman fast attack craft-missile

IRINS Larak (LSLH 512) Hengam class landing ship

Left: Handijan class (PBO 1410) tender

IRINA Agusta SH-3D Sea King (AS-61) anti-submarine helicopter

USS John C. Stennis (CVNM 74) Nimitz class nuclear powered super carrier,

reportedly photographed by Iran military aircraft transiting the Straight of Hormuz

IRIN Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari

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Tactical stage begins for joint IRIN/IRGCN maneuvers:

According to Mehr News Agency:

TEHRAN, Dec. 27 (MNA) – The tactical stage of the 10-day naval war games, entitled Velayat-90, started on Tuesday, the commander of the Navy told IRNA.
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari also pointed to the preliminary stage of the war games and said, “Achievements were beyond imagination.”

During the preliminary stage of the maneuvers, Iranian warships, submarines, and other naval vessels spread out across the theaters of operations, which cover a wide area from the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Aden. The deployment of naval units was carried out as naval vessels and helicopters practiced military tactics in preparation for the main stage of the war games.

“We supposed that forces needed more time to spread out across the areas of operations,” Sayyari said, adding that the units, however, acted with speed and efficiency, and “artillery, intelligence, missile, electronic warfare, and other units managed to position themselves in the designated locations sooner than expected.”

The deputy commander of the Navy, Rear Admiral Gholam Reza Khadem-Bigham, also said on Tuesday that during the tactical stage of the maneuvers, the theater of war will be simulated, and naval forces will practice various military tactics.

In this stage, forces will be divided into two groups, namely friendly forces and mock enemy forces, he said.

“Enemy forces, in this stage, should try to enter (the area under the control of) friendly forces, and in response, friendly forces should try to identify and destroy the forces that have the intention of penetrating (into the area),” he explained.

The war games, which started on Saturday, are said to differ from previous ones in terms of the vastness of the area of action and the military equipment and tactics that are being employed.

It has been announced that submarines of the Ghadir class and other classes, warships, missile-firing destroyers, coast-to-sea missile systems, drones, and electronic warfare equipment will be tested during the exercises.

Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, said on December 22 that the war games would be staged in a large area from the east side of the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman to the northern Indian Ocean, adding that in terms of intelligence, the maneuvers would cover a vast area stretching from the northern Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Aden.

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According to Fars News Agency:

Iran's naval forces started massive wargames in international waters in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean on Saturday.

The naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 are due to cover an area stretching from the East of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden for 10 days.

During the wargames, the Iranian naval forces will display their latest equipment, achievement and tactics.

Earlier, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari had said that the exercises will manifest Iran's military prowess and defense capabilities in the international waters, convey a message of peace and friendship to the regional countries, and test the newest military equipment among other objectives.

He said that the newest missile systems and torpedoes will be employed in the maneuvers, adding that the most recent tactics used in subsurface battles will also be demonstrated in the maneuvers.

Sayyari also said that Iranian destroyers, missile-launching vessels, logistic vessels, drones and coastal missiles will also be tested.

Earlier, an ONI special advisory was publicly broadcasted and highlighted at the Information Dissemination blog. It read as follows:

REPORTS FROM MARITIME FORCES AND COMMERCIAL MARITIME INTERESTS INDICATE CONCERN WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED DISRUPTION TO SHIPPING IN CONJUNCTION WITH FUTURE IRANIAN NAVAL EXERCISES. DURING PREVIOUS EXERCISES IRANIAN MARITIME FORCES CONDUCTED BOARDINGS AND INSPECTIONS OF MERCHANT SHIPS, INCLUDING THOSE FLAGGED TO EUROPEAN NATIONS. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT IRAN WILL ATTEMPT TO CONDUCT BOARDINGS AND INSPECTIONS DURING EXERCISES BETWEEN DECEMBER 2011 AND MARCH 2012. THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION FOR THIS ACTIVITY WOULD BE IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, PARTICULARLY IN AREAS CLOSER TO IRANIAN TERRITORIAL WATERS.

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