Iran Military Forum

Stage Drills Soon
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Army's Ground Force plans to stage massive wargames in the near future to display part of its defensive capabilities, a senior army commander announced on Sunday.




Addressing army personnel here in Tehran today, Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that the wargames will be held in the near future.

The commander did not reveal any further detail about the exact date and place of the military drills, but stated that "part of the power and might of the Army's ground force" would be displayed during the exercises.

Pourdastan added that the Army ground forces and their advanced tools, weapons and equipment would go on display during the exercises and play a key role in the wargames.

The announcement came a day after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force started a series of military exercises in Iran's Eastern regions.

Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said that the main phase of the drills, codenamed as Shohaday-e Vahdat (Martyrs of Unity), would start in Khaf general zone, East of Iran, on Monday.

Pakpour stated that the wargames are aimed at boosting security along the Iranian borders and are part of the IRGC ground forces' routine drills staged to maintain and boost combat preparedness of the IRGC units.

The commander also mentioned that exercising tactical strategies and asymmetric tactics of the IRGC combat units is among other objectives of the drills.

Earlier this month, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi announced the IRGC will soon stage its most massive naval exercises in Iran's Southern waters in the near future.

The IRGC's new drills came less than a week after Iranian Navy wrapped up its 10-day naval drills in the international waters in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean. Fars News Agency

Threats with threats..That's the new doctrine...

1- Around one month ago : One of the largest air defence wargames in east of Iran
2- Last week : Largest wargames of IRIN in Oman sea to Indian ocean
3- Now: wargames of IRGC ground forces in east of Iran
4- Next month: wargames of IRGCN at strait of hormuz and Persian Gulf
5- Near future: wargames of Ground forces of Army

Its good to see if they add a ballistic missile wargames to this collection (and unveil new BM's)

I see the new APC and more modern helmets! I'm giddy!

Did you notice the new camouflage too? There are some other things that your not suppose to notice; thank god!

The digital camo was around for awhile, but it looks like its in use much more now.

Really? First time i see it.

I saw maybe one pic that had it about a year ago. It was rare.

The digital desert camouflage which is more-or-less a copy of MARPAT though there does appear to be more then one unique pattern first emerged in use by the IRGC airborne and/or commandos (depending on exactly what terminology one wants to use) a few years ago where it replaced the 6-color desert chocolate chip pattern.

Now it seems to be evolving into the same distribution pattern as the safariflage pattern used by the Artesh; that is, it's being issued to the forces at large with the staff and officers receiving uniforms first.