TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Iran's navy fired a cruise missile from the indigenous submarine in ongoing naval drills on Sunday.
In a footage aired from the state TV, a Ghadir-class submarine fired an anti-surface cruise missile on the third day of naval exercise.
The Ghadir-class submarines are basically designed to cruise within the shallow waters of the Gulf to protect Iran's maritime borders.
It is the first time that Iran launches a missile from a submarine at the depth of the sea, state TV reported on Sunday.
The report did not expand on the specifications of the cruise missile.
According to Tasnim news agency, the Iranian experts had configured the cruise missile to be fired from a great depth in the sea.
Iran kicked off the naval exercise, code-named "Velayat 97," on Friday. It is held in an area of 2 million square kilometers, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Sea of Oman and the northern parts of the Indian Ocean.
