Iranian drone reportedly films close-up shots of US aircraft carrier… and gets away with it (VIDEO)
An Iranian UAV has reportedly brazenly approached a US aircraft carrier group in the Persian Gulf to film the ships close-up in HD. The images were shared by Tehran’s semi-official news agency.
The undated clip, which was released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, showed a homemade Ababail-3 drone taking off from an Iranian airfield to a rather epic tune.
Its audacious mission proved successful, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, which reported on the close-up shots of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier apparently taken by the UAV.
The footage was made from such a small distance that the numbers on the wings of E-2C reconnaissance planes and F-18 fighter jets on deck are easily distinguishable. The Iranian graphic designers even captioned some of the aircraft in the video.
Tasnim hinted that the drone flyby was a response to the US designating the Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist organization” earlier in April. It was the first time that a whole foreign military was put on the blacklist by Washington.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is the flagship of the Carrier Strike Group 10, which also includes guided-missile cruisers USS Monterey, USS San Jacinto and USS Vella Gulf. The air wing of the 333-meter-long aircraft carrier consists of around 90 planes and helicopters.
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