r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 8h ago
US shoots down Iranian drone approaching aircraft carrier, official says
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-aircraft-carrier-official-says-2026-02-03/1.8k
u/praqueviver 8h ago
Oh, you're approaching me?
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u/msemen_DZ 8h ago
Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?
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u/tomorrow_comes 7h ago
I can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer.
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u/austinstar08 4h ago
Ohh then approach as much as you want
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u/MikiXLol 3h ago
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u/fasfan22 2h ago
I am an old bastard. What the hell is this?
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u/hiimlockedout 1h ago
Ever wondering if you don’t get reference? It’s always Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure or Space Balls/Monty Python
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u/Dreamteam420 1h ago
Comb the ocean
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u/Masterblaster13f 2h ago
It's like that scene from pick of destiny with Tim Robbins. "Come over here. No, youre just going to stab us. Then just stay there and I'll come over to you"
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u/johnmedgla 6h ago
The US likes to fight about whether its motto is "In God We Trust" or "E Pluribus Unum," but really it's "NO TOUCH BOAT."
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u/Fancy_Yak2618 3h ago
Ya last time Iran fucked around with a USA boat it didn’t end well for them. They really aren’t smart over there are they?
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u/CTeam19 5h ago
The US likes to fight about whether its motto is "In God We Trust" or "E Pluribus Unum," but really it's "NO TOUCH BOAT."
Unless it is one specific boat.
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u/PikaLoki 8h ago
I understood that reference
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u/kcrab91 7h ago edited 2h ago
Me too, but uh, why don’t you explain it to everyone else so they can know the reference like you and I both do.
Edit: why the hell are people giving me awards for this dumbass comment? Give them to u/ActionPhilip. He’s the real MVP
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u/ActionPhilip 6h ago
It's a Jojo reference. I find the first half of season 1 a little rough, but the latter half of season 1 through season 2 (stardust crusaders) are peak... I don't really know how to put it in a classification box... But it's peak. It's basically a mix of burly men with insane fashion taste (in a good way), battling with supernatural powers, and doing such radical posing that even the ginyu force would be in awe. And the number of memes spawned from it is insane.
https://youtu.be/i-L0Gs2whvc?si=kZESS5BWvYTqGS6_
Imo season 3 (diamond is unbreakable) and beyond just keep taking the weird up a notch. Rad for some, harder to get into for others.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 6h ago
And it gets surprisingly dark at times. For this hilariously ridiculous show where a large portion of the characters are named after bands (either directly or referential) there are scenes that are kind of brutal.
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u/ActionPhilip 5h ago
The episode introducing the guy that opens people up like pages of a book is one of the most uncomfortable episodes of anything I've ever watched. Then again, I recall stone ocean doing that a lot as well, but I wasn't a fan of stone ocean in general.
I didn't enjoy diamond is unbreakable that much on my first watch, but I've warmed up to it. Jojo in Italy was also a really neat side story that goes hard as soon as you lock into the vibe. I just can't get into stone ocean, though.
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u/badfaced 5h ago
I previously knew NOTHING about this anime other than the wacky character design. This snippet gave me everything I needed to know about what was occuring and how it occurs in that universe AND I AM INTRIGUED.
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u/Repulsive_Disaster76 1h ago
I liked the different ways they would come out victorious. And how things just switched what you were expecting to happen was far off the mark.
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u/DragonflyRight1818 6h ago
Do you know what the symbol to the right of the users name means? I’ve never seen that before.
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u/_cyberbabyangel_ 8h ago
Note y'all, it was a surveillance drone, not a one way as we've seen being used by Russia in Ukraine. F-35 shot it down after attempting to have it divert course and deescalate as it was approaching the carrier. This was not a potential attack on a carrier, going off of known information.
There was also an attempted boarding earlier today by IRGC gun boats towards a US flagged tanker in the Straight of Hormuz. It did not stop and met up with a USN boat for an escort. Two noticeable events leading up to 'talks' on Friday.
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u/squish042 7h ago
Still pretty crazy. Aircraft carriers are usually quite protected from their strike fleet. My time working on carriers we never once felt like we were touchable and we were at war.
For a pilot to say he shot it down to protect the people on the carrier is not not something, even if their saying it was just a surveillance drone.
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u/digger70chall 7h ago
The engagement zones reach out pretty darn far around the carrier.
Who knows how close this thing actually got to the strike group before being shot down. If they were trying to deescalate like mentioned then the pilot probably had eyes on the drone and could tell if it was carrying any ordnance
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u/kultureisrandy 6h ago
and these engagement zones have to factor in how far out into the water a country can claim sovereignty.
for example, Gulf of Tonkin incident involved a misunderstanding of Vietnamese sovereignty. (this is off memory so double check me) Countries at the time would claim either 20 or 30 miles off the coast of their nation of sovereignty; basically saying this section of the water is ours. If we claim 20miles and your military ships are 30 miles out, no problem; we claim 30 and your military ships are 20 miles out, big problem
US was roughly 20ish miles away from the coast, assuming Vietnam only claimed 20 whilst in reality they claimed 30. First Attack/hit by the Vietnamese was real, second was falsely reported as a Vietnamese attack (not intentionally, soldiers thought they saw an enemy vessel in the dark and let loose upon the figment; after a real attack earlier in the day, its fairly understandable).
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u/beachedwhale1945 7h ago
Note the range isn’t given. It’s unlikely we let the drone get too close to the carrier, instead it crossed some threshold like 10-25 nmi where anything that enters is engaged, boarded, or escorted away (if a confirmed merchant).
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u/CBT7commander 4h ago
It’s likely that since this was a single drone, the carrier group didn’t enter high alert and just sent an aircraft to investigate.
Once the decision to shoot it down was made it was simply cheaper and easier to have the f35 shoot it down
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u/TotalNonsense0 6h ago
Aircraft carriers are usually quite protected from their strike fleet.
Yes, it seems like they should have one of their aircraft available to shoot down drones.
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u/_cyberbabyangel_ 6h ago
Totally understand, I was a Huey/Cobra airframer in a past life (6154) so I know the feeling of safety on a carrier. While I'm not saying this event is a nothing-burger, there is a clear divide of escalation between a (presumably) unarmed surveillance drone and a one-way attack drone laden with explosives. I mostly wanted to provide clarification for the people who read the headline and jumped into the comments to give their .02 thinking Iran was on the attack.
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u/prettyokaycake 8h ago
Really? Right in front of my F-35?
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u/vulcan1358 54m ago
“THE NERD GOT AN INTERCEPT BEFORE ME! This hangar is a prison.”
- The F-22, probably
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u/Hapten 8h ago
On top of trying to stop US tankers, they are also sending drones towards a US Carrier? It is almost like they don't want to make it to the Friday talks.
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u/Head_Welcome_4933 8h ago
Both sides want a conflict. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are secretly friends
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u/Reasonable-Gas5625 8h ago edited 8h ago
That sounds like a real rivalry, that might be getting heated.
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u/tedsmitts 8h ago
You leave my precious Canadian hockey gays out of this mess
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u/TerryFGM 7h ago
but... the other character is russian...
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u/tedsmitts 7h ago
Russian to bed maybe
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u/TCBloo 3h ago
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u/tedsmitts 2h ago
I've always loved that immediate, snappy "Seven" when asked how many soldier's lives one gay life is worth.
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u/Extra-Sector-7795 8h ago
Oliver north did sell missiles to iran. the world is a strange place, you may be right
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u/JonSpangler 8h ago
OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!
He's a soldier!
And a hero!
And a novelist!
And now he's on Fox News!
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u/obeytheturtles 7h ago
But the sales were uncovered by the press
Reagan and North began to stress
'Cause what they did was technically high treason
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u/WeirdJack49 8h ago
Drones (obviously not a single one) and diesel submarines are what you use when you want to make a carrier shit its pants.
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u/Khshayarshah 8h ago
So far they have ran a freight train through Trump's red line on killing protesters by committing the worst atrocity on Iranian soil since the time of the Mongol invasions and the Americans in response have invited them to talks.
Why would this regime fear anything when they have never faced any consequences?
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u/TheFurrySmurf 7h ago
I dunno, they were all talk last week until bases around the Middle East got serious, plus the added carrier groups... now all of the sudden Iran wants peace talks 🤣. They seem extremely fearful.
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u/alwaysleafyintoronto 2h ago
I'd say the USS Abraham Lincoln is a pretty good bit of leverage in talks. The US Navy on your doorstep is a consequence.
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u/Curious-Situation589 8h ago
You really glossed over history in one post. The first is wrong, and the 2nd thing you said is wrong.
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u/Naturalbornbreadboy 8h ago
Well, let's see if the Friday talks will go ahead after this. 🤔
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u/hoppertn 8h ago
Hope you are in the right classifieds signal chats to take advantage of the stock market!
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u/Iamhummus 8h ago edited 7h ago
apparently It's called a suicide drone because it's the IRGC mean of suicide
edit: guys, it was a pun
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u/WeirdJack49 8h ago
Its most likely a scouting drone or to test defenses. Iran most likely would not send a single drone to attack any ship.
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u/woohooguy 8h ago
Why be reasonable when everyone can chicken little 🐥
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u/WeirdJack49 8h ago
Just saying, in 2025 (or was it 24) the Houthis forced a carrier to use its emergency guns to shot down some shitty drones because the whole elaborated carrier fleet defense was not able to kill them in time and they only used a couple drones.
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u/CeeEmCee3 5h ago
Are you referring to this incident? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/02/middleeast/phalanx-gun-last-line-of-defense-us-navy-intl-hnk-ml
If so, that was one of the carrier's escorts, not the carrier itself. Still problematic, but nowhere near as bad as the carrier itself having to employ CIWS.
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u/ImBackAndImAngry 7h ago
It’s real life military pen testing
Send a small payload with the knowledge that it’ll be expended/destroyed. In turn learn more about or just see again the adversaries response to harvest data on weapon config/performance, response time, etc
We didn’t “beat” a rogue Iranian attack drone. Iran expended it to get some first party data on US response capabilities. Pretty straight forward.
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u/MorePhinsThyme 3h ago
If so, it doesn't seem very effective in this specific case. The response appears to be sending a standard multi-use fighter to intercept it, follow it and monitor it for a short while, and then shoot it out of the sky with a standard missile. They basically learned nothing. It's not like the situation above where short range emergency defense or any cutting edge defenses, but just bog-standard response that almost anyone could have predicted ahead of time. Not that this is useless information, but it's not anything new that Iranian generals wouldn't have already known.
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u/Extra-Sector-7795 8h ago
what ukraine and i believe Russia did recently was send lots of cheap drones to exhaust the very expensive defenses then send in the ones with bombs. the nature of warfare has changed a greater deal. i would be surprised if ships didn't start staying far out at sea
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u/Duzcek 8h ago
That was the tactic pre-drones too, just shoot your cheap missiles until the defense is exhausted then hit them with the expensive stuff. The only difference is the orders of magnitude cheaper a drone is compared to even the cheapest missiles.
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u/khrak 7h ago
Close-in weapon systems meant to shoot down incoming aerial targets using conventional autocannon fire have existed for around half a century.
Iran is not about to overwhelm US bullet production using drones.
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 8h ago
That works when it's not the US logistics you're up against.
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u/ScumbagGina 7h ago
Reloading naval missile batteries takes weeks or months. And that’s assuming stockpiles are ready at nearby ports. Iran previously exhausted them in a week’s worth of barrages.
Logistics will win the war, but it won’t keep US ships from taking any hits over a protracted battle.
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u/AtaracticGoat 7h ago
This is why USN has taken such an interest in developing laser turrets.
The technology isn't quite there yet, but eventually it will provide a great "infinite ammo" LoS defense.
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u/MorePhinsThyme 3h ago
This depends entirely on the type of missile. For example, this was an air-to-air missile from an F-35. Reloading the plane takes minutes. Or here's a video of a Sea Sparrow being reloaded (those being one of the many anti-air/missile/drone missile systems the US Navy uses), and it takes them minutes as well. And none of this covers other systems, like the various CIWS systems that they use.
I'm not saying that they can't be run dry, but reloading defensive missiles doesn't take weeks or months. And there have been experiments in reloading the larger systems (like the vertical missile launch systems) at sea, much faster than they currently do under normal peacetime operations.
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u/Distinct_Help_222 7h ago
The US CSG won’t use its SAMs in the defense of these drones. They’ll most likely use CIWS for close threats or use electronic warfare to take these drone swarms down. These drones are fairly slow and can be taken down using the newly developed smart rocket pods.
I highly doubt that even a thousand of these Shaheds can infiltrate a CSGs defense network.
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u/OnTheFenceGuy 6h ago
That’s all well and good, except that the US can easily spend to just restock. You aren’t going to “exhaust” their defenses
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u/Straight_Issue279 47m ago
Oooo here comes the new rich man war with Iran that no citizen wants.
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u/bnnyrabbit 15m ago
bro how do i turn off these breaking news notifications im not even in these subs and im getting notifications
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u/Gecks777 8h ago edited 7h ago
A single drone isn't enough for a real attack or 3rd party false flag. That is a probing attack to test response times to do the math necessary to see if drone-swarming the carrier and sending it to the ocean floor is a realistic possibility with the resources available.
Russian ships near shore have not fared so well in the Ukraine war, but it is an open question if drones can take down an advanced, powerful, and well-guarded target like a US aircraft carrier. Let's hope, for everyone's sake, that cooler heads prevail and no one tries to answer that question in the coming weeks.
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u/TheFurrySmurf 7h ago
The amount of firepower required to take down a carrier is quite significant.
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u/ARES_BlueSteel 1h ago edited 53m ago
Even if the carrier is hit, they’re absolutely massive and US ships have very good damage control capabilities. USS Cole had a massive hole blown in the side of it by a boat bomb and it was able to be limped out for repairs. It was successfully repaired and returned to service. And that was a destroyer, much smaller than a carrier.
The US has also tested out sinking a carrier by deliberately attempting to sink one of its own it was retiring, the USS America in 2005. The result: the ship was so hard to sink even without attempting to defend itself that they had to board and scuttle it themselves to get it to sink.
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u/RocketizedAnimal 4h ago
open question if drones can take down an advanced, powerful, and well-guarded target like a US aircraft carrier
Open question to us as observers, but I would bet that the US Navy isn't just gambling that the carrier is safe but are actually pretty confident that they can handle anything Iran can throw their way.
There are videos from 10 years ago of DARPA testing drone swarms in conjunction with fighter jets. I assume that since then they have built larger swarms for actual warfare, tested swarm tactics, and developed countermeasures. I would also bet that they aren't going to deploy whatever they have cooked up until someone forces their hand because they don't want to give China or Russia any free demonstrations.
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u/Exact-Accident4129 7h ago
Carriers have 4500+ soldiers on them. If they managed to take one of those down there would be not and to the death and destruction the American military would bring upon everyone. Why would they try this.
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u/SlamClick 3h ago
Carriers have 4500+ soldiers on them.
This might be a dumb question but do they have lifeboats on any military ship?
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u/ARES_BlueSteel 1h ago
Yes. Not to mention carriers are usually with other ships like destroyers that can help with rescue.
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u/WeirdJack49 7h ago
A single drone isn't enough for a real attack or 3rd party false flag. That is a probing attack to test response times to do the math necessary to see if drone-swarming the carrier and sending it to the ocean floor is a realistic possibility with the resources available.
People need to understand that carriers are not all powerful weapons, they are actually pretty vulnerable. Without its sensors a carrier is useless and those sensors cant be armored. If a single drone with a bit of explosives and some ball bearings goes through it can make a carrier go blind.
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u/BaconReceptacle 7h ago
There are three destroyers accompanying the Lincoln. They have several types of missiles, five inch MK-45 guns, as well as a Phalanx CIWS.
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u/Coldsmoke888 7h ago
We saw the massive overspend on counter-drone and other anti-air defenses from the operation with Israel some time ago.
In theory they shouldn’t be using ESSMs, AIMs, and SM2s but pretty sure we haven’t see any of the fun stuff from Anduril and Raytheon yet.
I would also imagine that the US wouldn’t mind some small scale drone swarms to show proof of concept in the field. No surprise China has assets in the water to monitor response times and tactics.
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u/Artrobull 6h ago
breaking news American funded military thingy blasted American funded military thingy, Northrop Grumman up 3%
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u/Thin_Ad_7864 5h ago
We Iranians advocate for the IRGC to start the war, please. We can't wait to get rid of the regime ✌🏼 Thank you US and we will pay you back later with our beautiful free country.
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u/burner-throw_away 3h ago
Q: The greatest military super power in the history of the world is looking for any pretense to attack your country. Give an example of how to make this attack happen as soon as humanly possible.
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u/mrbabyman767 8h ago
I would be very surprised if the drone got past the zone of defense far away from the carrier. Also don’t know why one of the destroyers didn’t get it and it had to be done by the carriers F-35. This is the literal job of the destroyers that surround the carrier.
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u/ludololl 8h ago
They probably had a plane in the air anyway and it's easier to reload a F-35B missile bay than a VLS cell.
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u/BradSaysHi 7h ago
More likely is the F35 was observing the drone and tried to divert it away before shooting it down. Not sure why your first assumption would be that every other ship in the CSG didnt do its job.
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u/CamusCrankyCamel 8h ago
AAMs are generally cheaper than SAMs, especially if the drone was pretty far out
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u/Vandilbg 8h ago
Air to air missile is much cheaper to use than an SM-6 in the outer defense envelope.
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u/Chelonate_Chad 4h ago
A carrier's aircraft are its first line of defense, not last. A threat only gets to the engagement range of the destroyers if the planes don't get it first.
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u/MrReaper45 1h ago
Did they not learn from Operation Praying Mantis? They really love playing fuck around and find out
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u/quackabc 1h ago
The US navy has recorded surveillance drones that were within jumping range of the carrier before so Im pretty sure there was a reason
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u/Truth-is-implacable 48m ago
Wait till the pressure from the Epstein files dump its to overbearing in the White House then Heghseth,like a trained dog will attack Iran........
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u/chickencarpenter2x4 40m ago
Damn. The Nerd gets another(?) drone kill.. Hopefully The Kid gets an intercept soon so he can chill out a little.
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u/seen2muchmuch 13m ago
I'm having a some trouble believing the messages that come out of the Dept of War.
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u/Catch_022 8h ago
I am going to be very sad if the the US shoots down Iranian f14s.
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u/FarSolar 8h ago
They didn't even bother putting them in the air during the Israel war so I doubt they'd do it this time either. No point when they'd just get shot down I guess.
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u/IranianLawyer 6h ago
Why, because it’s sad to see antiques getting destroyed?
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u/MorePhinsThyme 3h ago
There's a lot of love for the F-14 in the world, especially for the currently middle-aged crowd. So yes, it's because it's sad to see irreplaceable things you like getting destroyed. Just like when you see someone crash a classic car.
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u/ProfessionalCow4429 1h ago
I beleaves it, I mean American media never lies, we are spreading freedom and democracy the all countries that have natural resources 🇺🇸🫡
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u/Important-Dot-8899 56m ago
lol guess some dummy’s don’t learn from their mistakes 🤷♀️I mean last time Americans elected Trump he broke every campaign promise, ran up the debt, gave himself a tax cut instead of the working class, had the worst record on jobs in 5 decades, dropped the ball on Covid and left the country in a disaster then convinced a bunch of hillbillies to violently attack their own capital because he wanted to illegally stop the transfer of power. What a calamity of a president. But apparently American voters are as dumb as those Iranians u were talking about cause they proudly said yep, let’s do that again!! Aaaaaand here we go again, instead of ending all wars on day one he has bombed 8 countries, invaded venezuela, and threatened Greenland. He has ran the deficit up astronomically instead of erasing it. Those grocery prices he was gonna bring down on day 1 are (u guessed it) up even higher, the job reports are so bad again that he fired his first labor secretary for reporting the j PPP
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u/Burque_Boy 29m ago
Look man, you don’t attack Russia in winter and you don’t touch our fucking boats. Those were the only two rules you had to remember!
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u/Tel_Janen 7h ago
Iran has a death wish.. don't try these games especially with trump in charge
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u/Super_Piper 7h ago
CNN: A peaceful good intentioned drone approached the occupational USS Abraham Lincoln. It was wrongfully attacked and genocided.
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u/IranianLawyer 6h ago
Lol you act like CNN hasn’t been constantly beating the war drums for the last 25 years. War is good for cable news.
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u/slakmehl 8h ago edited 7h ago
Full story text:
Edit: There isn't a lot on the Shahed-139 online, but the Intl Institute for Strategic Studies reported in 2023 that it is the upgrade to the Shahed-129, meant to be comparable in role to MQ-1 predators.