Iran’s military has shown off its enormous supply of naval suicide drones, which it is using to blockade the crucial Strait of Hormuz, in chilling footage taken from its underground “missile city.”
Footage from Iranian state media purportedly shows underground tunnels full of naval drones, anti-ship missiles, and sea mines, with dramatic footage also showing some of it being fired.
Experts have analyzed the footage, released by Iranian state media outlet Fars, telling CNN exctly what is being showed off.
The full terrifying array of armory on display includes:
- Abadil-2/3 “kamikaze” drones: Shown on rail-launchers inside the tunnels, these are designed for deadly one-way strikes on ship sensors and superstructures.
- Shahed-136 drones: Primarily a land-attack drone, but naval versions shown inside the tunnels can be mounted on fast-attack craft or hidden launch racks to target coastal infrastructure and tankers.
- Zolfaqar drones: Small, explosive-laden autonomous boats designed to swarm larger naval vessels.
- Ghadir anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM): Long-range cruise missiles with a 190-mile range, shown on mobile truck launchers inside the tunnels.
- Nasr-1 (ASCM): Shorter-range, high-precision missiles designed for coastal defense, capable of being launched from speedboats or hidden bunkers.
- Khalij Fars (ASCM): Quasi-ballistic anti-ship missiles that Iran claims can hit moving targets at sea using an electro-optical seeker.
- Maham sea mines: Acoustic/magnetic influence mines, often seabed-mounted, that can detonate without direct contact, just by detecting the physical signatures of passing ships.
- Sadaf-02 sea mines: Contact mines that are often shown being loaded onto civilian-style dhow sailing vessels, or fast boats.
“We have missiles that are fired from underwater, and their speed is one hundred meters per second, and we may use them in the coming days,” Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told state television on Wednesday.
The regime in Tehran has threatened to use the terrifying arsenal to cripple the global economy and send oil prices as high as $200 a barrel.
Iran has also threatened to make the Persian Gulf run red with the “blood of invaders” if the US and Israel don’t end their airstrikes on the country.
“Any aggression against soil of Iranian islands will shatter all restraint. We will abandon all restraint and make the Persian Gulf run with the blood of invaders,” Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.
This is not the first time the Islamist regime has highlighted its underground “missile city.”
In January and February 2025, the IRGC also held a series of major “unveilings,” including its “strategic missile base” on the Gulf Coast, independent Kurdish outlet Channel 8 reported at the time.
The footage also highlighted large bays for suicide drone boats, hundreds of cruise and ballistic missiles—including the Ghadr-380—primed on mobile launchers, and stacks of sophisticated naval mines ready for deployment in the Strait of Hormuz.
The earliest mention of Iran’s “missile city” was in March 2021, when the IRC released footage showing rows upon rows of anti-ship missiles and electronic warfare equipment, as reported by the Jerusalem Post at the time.
The IRGC claimed it had built the base deep underground to protect it from naval bombardment.
With Post wires.
