Imagery from the 13th Jan. 2021 shows the setup and preparation at Garmsar Missile Test Range, Semnan Province, Iran as part of the IRGC’s 15th Great Prophet exercise. This is where the reported 1800km BM launch took place impacting 100 miles from US Navy USS Nimitz.
This image isn’t showing anything drastically new, but it does show the “behind the scenes” setup. There are other smaller details omitted from highlighted, such as extra work vehicles so the image wasn’t “busy”.
The images were made available by Aura Intel and Intel Lab on social media. So credits go to them.
Iranian IRGC targets USS Nimitz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards test-fired ballistic missiles against targets in the Indian Ocean as they wrapped up a two-day exercise, their official website reported Saturday.
The missiles of “various classes” targeted “the enemy’s battleships and destroyed them from 1,800 kilometers (1,125 miles) away,” according to the Sepahnews website.
Great Prophet Exercise 15
Dubbed Great Prophet 15, the exercise also featured a drone attack on a missile defense system followed by the launch of a barrage of “new generation” surface-to-surface ballistic missiles.
The missiles were fired from central Iran with the targets located in the “northern Indian Ocean,” the Guards said.
At times of escalation between the US and Iran
The war games come at a time of rising tensions with the United States in the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Iran fired missiles within 100 miles of USS Nimitz aircraft carrier
It was Iran’s third military exercise in less than two weeks after a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday and Thursday, and an army drone drill on January 5-6.
The exercises started two days after Iran marked the anniversary of the assassination of revered Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January last year.
Source: Al Arabiya, Social Media, IRGC Officials
