Joint Exercise Zolfaghar 99

The drills were held at the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean 10 degrees north of the Equator, including about 2 million-square-kilometer of area.

[3] IRIS Fateh (920), the lead ship of Iran's endogenously-built Fateh-class coastal submarine, made her first presence during the drill and a brief footage of her sailing on the surface was aired.

[4] Ghadir-class midget submarines were also seen taking part by firing Jask-2 submarine-launched cruise missile.

[3] Iran said three American aircraft including a Boeing P-8 Poseidon, a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk were warned after they had entered the air defense identification zone (ADIZ).

[6] United States Central Command did not comment on the war game, nor Iranian allegations about warnings to its aircraft.