 Air defense forces of Iran have started military exercises. Iran's armed forces have launched a large-scale military exercise, featuring the country's domestically developed air defense missile systems, radars, electronic warfare devices, communication systems, and any integrated air defense network. Defense of the state sky 1401 under the conditional name Ya Ali ibn Abu Talib. The joint aerial maneuvers attended by air defense divisions of the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps IRGC and codenamed Modafin Asman Velayat 1401 Guardians of Velayat Sky 1401, kicked off in the country's northwestern, western and central areas. Second Brigadier General Amir Farajpur said the deployment of air defense systems with special significance given to the mobility and agility was carried out at the first stage of the drill. Farajpur said the exercise covers two-thirds of the Iranian airspace, adding that manned and unmanned aircraft of the Army and IRGC conducted reconnaissance sorties over the area before detection and combat systems carried out tactical and defensive operations against the MOK enemy aircraft. The senior Iranian military official noted that control and command centers are using active and passive radar systems capable of signal and electro-optical monitoring of the exercise area and missile air defense systems will use artificial intelligence and decision-making techniques as they discover a hostile target to launch an appropriate attack. Farajpur underlined that the entire detection, reconnaissance, interception and missile systems that the Army and IRGC air defense units are employing in the drill are homegrown and have been manufactured by Iranian defense specialists. During the training, the tasks of protecting nuclear facilities, power plants, military and economic facilities will be carried out. More than 100 warplanes and drones are participating in the military exercise.