The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday released photos of Iran’s newest underground base for fighter jets designed to fend off possible bomb attacks. Destroy American bunkers.
Footage provided by state media and Iran’s Military Office shows a tactical airbase called Oghab 44 (Persian for eagle), capable of operating a variety of warplanes and aircraft. bombers as well as unmanned aerial systems.
IRNA reported that Oghab 44 is “one of many tactical underground air bases for ground forces built in different parts of the country in recent years”.
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According to state media, it could prepare fighters “against possible attacks” like those taken by the US and Israel during their recent military exercises. .
The exact location of the “secret” base was not disclosed, but open-source intelligence monitoring groups later claimed they had located the underground airbase’s geographic location.
Joseph Dempsey, a defense researcher with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the new base is located in southern Iran.
“Iran’s underground airbase is not so secret at coordinates 28.04558° North, 55.52038° East,” he wrote on Twitter.
Iran’s secret underground airbase in
28.04558° North, 55.52038° East: @planet (February 5, 2023) https://t.co/yTLmwarMwq pic.twitter.com/SFysXEcG7R
– Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) February 8, 2023
According to Babakh Tagvaee’s Twitter account, the new airbase can be found 120 kilometers northeast of Bandar Abbas, near highway 92 from Hajjiabad to Shahrake Shahid Rajai, about 30 kilometers west of Tarom, Hormozgan. .
IRNA reports that Oghab 44 is “one of many tactical underground air bases for ground forces built in different parts of the country in recent years”.
It can prepare fighters “against possible attacks” like those that the US and Israel conducted during their recent military exercises, according to state media. water.
It is worth noting that the publicly available satellite images also show the construction of the airbase starting in mid-2021 in the mountains of southern Iran and the creation of hard underground hangars on the ground. the territory of the base, where the runway has not yet been built. .
