{"id":19395,"date":"2020-10-22T03:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=19395"},"modified":"2020-10-22T03:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:56:17","slug":"iranian-forces-begin-large-scale-air-defense-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iranian-forces-begin-large-scale-air-defense-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Forces Begin Large-scale Air Defense Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Air Defense units launched a large-scale military exercise covering more than half of the country\u2019s territories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The joint air defense exercise, codenamed \u2018Guardians of Velayat Sky-99\u2019, kicked off on Wednesday morning, attended by air defense units from the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC].<\/p>\n<p>Various types of homegrown missile systems, radars, electronic warfare equipment, and communication systems have been employed in the war game to practice countering aerial threats in low, medium and high altitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the drill is aimed at boosting the combat preparedness and consolidate the air defense capabilities of the Armed Forces in simulated real-war conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian fighter jets, bombers and drones are flown in the war game.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Air Defense holds annual war games in order to enhance capabilities to defend the country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei underlined the important role that Iran\u2019s Air Defense plays in protecting the country, saying it is on the front line of countering enemies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Fava5Ifru8330dDMfhs0gn\">https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Fava5Ifru8330dDMfhs0gn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Air Defense units launched a large-scale military exercise covering more than half of the country\u2019s territories. The joint air defense exercise, codenamed \u2018Guardians of Velayat Sky-99\u2019, kicked off on Wednesday morning, attended by air defense units from the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC]. Various types of homegrown missile systems, radars, electronic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1478,1483,1482,1480,1481],"class_list":["post-19395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-islam_is_our_symbol","tag-no_to_trump_deal","tag-purposeful_lectures","tag-stay_at_home_to_be_safe","tag-the_zionist_mice-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19397,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19395\/revisions\/19397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}