Kharg Island

Kharg Island is a multiplayer map in Battlefield 3 and is one of the nine maps in the standard edition. The map is inspired by the real-life Kharg Island (or Khark, depending on the romanization). At roughly seven square miles, the island contains an airfield, a paved circuit serving the northern region, and the KHEMCO oil facility in the south. A wildlife refuge is located on an island roughly two miles to the northeast.

Description
Kharg Island is the second map with boat gameplay. Thematically it’s representing an assault against Kharg Island in the Persian sea, an industrialized island not far from the Iranian coast. It's mountainous terrain makes it great for snipers, however the map is slightly more focused on vehicles with longer distance between flags than other maps such as Noshahr Canals. In the Rush game mode, the beach assault begins on the coastline with a well-defended beach you need to break through to create a beachhead for further attacks on the island, before it opens up wider in the later part of the map. This is one of the five (inculding BtK) maps where jet combat is available.

In Rush mode, the Marines launch their A-10 Thunderbolt II from the deck of an amphibious assault ship. Similarly, the Russians launch their Su-25 from a somewhat straight segment of road opposite of the fleet.

In Conquest the Marines start from the beach instead of the aircaft carrier. The amphibious assault ship has 2x F18 Super Hornets and a AH-1Z Viper as well as some RHIB Boats. The beach has 2x M1 Abrams and some Growler ITVs. The Russian side spawns on the otherside of the map on the pier, they also have tanks and jeeps. The Russians have also have 2x Su-35 Flankers and a Mi-28 Havoc.

Trivia

 * Kharg Island is most likely the largest or second largest map in Battlefield 3.
 * If heading from US deployment to gas station and turning left into the open area to the left of it and heading straight to the mountain you will come upon an under developed section of the map that has 2D trees and minor detailings.
 * If one tries to bail out from a jet or helicopter onto the oil tanker ships outside RU deploment on contact one will instantly die from bad luck.