{"id":51683,"date":"2019-11-23T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51683"},"modified":"2019-11-23T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:21:24","slug":"massive-air-defence-drills-underway-in-central-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51683","title":{"rendered":"Massive Air Defence Drills Underway In Central Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Nov 23 (NNN-FARS) &#8211; Drills, code-named, Guardians of Velayat&#8217;s Sky-98, entered its second day on Friday, in the central Iranian province of Semnan, according a news report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drills, which are held over an area of 416,000 square km, aim to boost combat readiness over potential threats in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, said the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian air defence units started the second day of their large-scale military exercises with various types of state-of-the-art missile and radar systems, designed and built at home, boasting their counteroffensive power against different aerial threats, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The first phase of the drills featured detection and identification of enemy targets, while the next one will focus on radar system&#8217;s engaging airborne targets,&#8221; Alireza Sabahi, commander of Iran&#8217;s air defence force, said, on the sidelines of the manoeuvres.&#8211; NNN-FARS  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Nov 23 (NNN-FARS) &#8211; Drills, code-named, Guardians of Velayat&#8217;s Sky-98, entered its second day on Friday, in the central Iranian province of Semnan, according a news report. The drills, which are held over an area of 416,000 square km, aim to boost combat readiness over potential threats in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}