Iranian Air Force pilots successfully conduct low-altitude, long distance flights in the final phase of the Milad-Noor-Velayat aerial maneuver over the Persian Gulf.
“By continuing trainings in the future, we would be able to fly at an altitude of one meter above the sea level,” Air Force pilot Brigadier Hossein Chit-Foroush, spokesman for the maneuver told Fars News on Friday.

He added that since the fighter jets flew at very low altitudes and the risk of an accident was high, the aerial maneuvers were carried out in complete coordination with the presence of the Islamic Republic’s Marine Forces.

The Iranian general continued that it was the first appearance of F14 fighter jets in the aerial maneuver — Milad-Noor-Velayat — amid numerous threats against the country.

The aerial maneuver conducted within Iran’s airspace over the Persian Gulf and the adjoining Sea of Oman began on Monday, and has been acknowledged as being a strictly “defensive exercise”.