Commander: IRGC Missiles Fully Ready to Destroy Enemy Warships in Persian Gulf

Commander: IRGC Missiles Fully Ready to Destroy Enemy Warships in Persian Gulf 

 Commander: IRGC Missiles Fully Ready to Destroy Enemy Warships in Persian Gulf

Sun May 24, 2015 8:39

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Sun May 24, 2015 8:39

Commander: IRGC Missiles Fully Ready to Destroy Enemy Warships in Persian Gulf

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TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commander underlined the IRGC Navy missile units' preparedness to destroy enemies' giant warships in the Persian Gulf.

"The IRGC Navy's missile defense declares its readiness to confront enemy's giant warships in the Persian Gulf," Commander of IRGC Navy's Salman 26 Missile Brigade General Abdolreza Vajdian said in the Southern city of Tangestan on Sunday.

"Enjoying defensive systems, the Salman 26 Missile Brigade is fully ready to have serious confrontation with the enemy's harsh threats, warships, aircraft carriers and helicopter carriers in the first hours of a battle," he added.

In relevant remarks in April, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi underlined the IRGC's preparedness and power to repel all types of threats posed by submarines and giant warships.

"Based on security and defensive strategies, we have the necessary capabilities to repel different threats in marine and geopolitical fields in the Persian Gulf and the surrounding areas," Fadavi said, addressing the Iranian people in the Southern city of Abadan.

"We have exercised defensive measures against possible large-scale threats that could be posed by warships and giant cruisers at different levels of coast-to-sea, sea-to-coast, air-to-sea, ground-to-air and subsurface confrontation," he added.

Also on Saturday, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Second Naval Zone General Ali Razmjou announced o that the IRGC Navy had increased the range of its drones in the Persian Gulf.

"Increasing the range of missiles and drone systems are among our achievements in terms of equipment, and we are now able to cover different areas in the Northern, Central and Southern parts of the Persian Gulf with our drone systems," Razmjou said in a press conference in Tehran.

Stressing that the IRGC Navy was equipped with different types of weapons and sought to maintain its might and power in the Persian Gulf, he said, "I emphasize that all these capabilities are aimed at increasing Iran's deterrent power."

Razmjou, meantime, underscored that the IRGC Navy was standing against all threats in the Persian Gulf strongly and powerfully.

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