The United States military says it shot down an Iranian drone that approached a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, amid continued efforts by regional powers to ease tensions between Washington and Tehran.
The Shahed-139 drone was shot down by an F-35C from the Lincoln, which CENTCOM said was sailing about 800km (500 miles) from Iran’s southern coast.
Apparently Iran has already deployed another Shahed and the IRGC is being coy about whether the drone was attacked, as acknowledging it would require enacting their promised non-symbolic retaliation too soon.
Sounds like needless destruction of a vehicle over international waters: almost like the usa navy is a rouge force of terror these days
“International waters” naturally means that the US has full authority over it and can do whatever it likes in it.
These days in this case is the last century
Weren’t you big on freedom of navigation™, USA? Wasn’t that you?
Sure they did
Shooting down individual surveillance drones isn’t that difficult for a navy that size. Both Russia and Ukraine do it all the time, and this one drone was known to be observing CENTCOM movements for a couple days now. They don’t need to lie when it was clearly meant as a provocation, though I assume the drone will be framed as a kamikaze FPV drone by the Imperial Press.
