The naval arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground naval base.
“Hundreds of cruise missiles capable of countering enemy destroyers’ electronic warfare are stationed in these underground cities,” the television said in its report.
“The systems are being kept hundreds of metres underground and can be operational in a very short time,” it said without giving an exact location of the base.
“These systems and missiles can be armed and fired from hundreds of kilometres away and can hit targets far out at sea.”
General Hossein Salami, the head of the guards, and Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the naval arm, took a tour of the installation.
Additionally, the report introduced the Ghadr-380, a new cruise missile model that Tangsiri claimed had “anti-jamming capabilities” and a range of over 1,000 kilometers (more than 600 miles).
The new weapons, he claimed, could “create hell for enemy vessels”
An subterranean naval facility for attack boats operating in southern Iranian waterways, such as the Gulf and the vital Strait of Hormuz, was revealed by the Guards last month.
Known as Eqtedar (Might in Farsi), Iran’s military started a series of drills in early January that would go until the middle of March.
The drills have included naval manoeuvres that saw the unveiling of an advanced reconnaissance ship as well as exercises on safeguarding Iran’s nuclear facilities from attack by Israel or the United States.
Iran is waiting to see what policies US President Donald Trump would implement during his second term, which coincides with the military drills.
Trump maintained a campaign of “maximum pressure” on Iran throughout his first term, which ended in 2021. He did this by reimposing harsh sanctions and pulling out of a historic nuclear agreement between Iran and key powers.
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