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TEHRAN, Jan. 26-- The large-scale military drills of the Iranian Army's Ground Forces in the central country was wrapped up on Saturday seeking to practice offensive tactics. The massive war game, code-named "Eqtedar," lasted for two days in a vast area in Nasrabad region in Iran's central province of Isfahan. A total of 12,000 army forces took in the exercise carrying out new offensive tactics in accordance with structural changes in the Army Ground Force, Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari said. The commander said the Army Ground Force had developed a new structure in its units, adopting an offensive approach. On Saturday, the Army's units practiced a tactic to prevent the enemy from closing in on the battlefield by creating a long row of blasts using remote-controlled land bombs during a military exercise, according to Tasnim news agency. The army's combat engineers created a line of explosion of six kilometers to block the forward movement of the hypothetical enemy's personnel carriers and armored vehicles, according to the report. The military engineering units had been deployed to the drill zone 10 days in advance of the war game to design and prepare the line of explosion and plant remote-controlled bombs. In another operation on Saturday, two F-7 fighter-bombers of the Air Force were scrambled to hit the enemy's armored equipment with smart bombs. | 
