According to Mashregh News and other Iranian media, the launch occurred during the “Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz” exercise, a drill designed to demonstrate integrated surveillance and fire-control across the narrow waterway. The footage shows Shahid Sayyad Shirazi steadying on course before a single canister-stored missile erupts vertically from the forward section of the ship, where the class’s vertical launch system (VLS) is located. Open-source monitoring accounts on X had previously highlighted still images of the same launcher, describing it as the first clear view of the vertical-launch Sayyad-3F family missile at sea; the latest reports now refer to this specific naval configuration as Sayyad-3G rather than earlier provisional labels such as Sayyad-3N. Although Tehran has not yet publicly detailed the exact designation, the sequence of images and videos indicates that the missile tested from Shahid Sayyad Shirazi is a vertically launched, ship-integrated evolution of the land-based Sayyad-3.
