(If I was the janitor over at the Shahed Drone Factory, I'd be calling in sick for the next week or so.)
The US military has shot down an Iranian drone that approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
The Iranian Shahed-139 aircraft was flying towards the carrier and was shot down by a F-35 US fighter jet, an American official confirmed on Tuesday.
A US Central Command spokesman said the drone 'aggressively approached' the Abraham Lincoln 'with unclear intent.'
The aircraft carrier was 'transiting the Arabian Sea approximately 500 miles from Iran's southern coast when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship,' the spokesman added.
Oil prices ticked higher after falling more than 4 percent on Monday amid hopes of a deal between Iran and the US. Brent Crude futures were up 1.24 percent.
Donald Trump warned that 'bad things would happen' but signaled he was hopeful Iran would come to the table on its nuclear program.
'We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones - the biggest and the best - and we have talks going on with Iran and we'll see how it all works out,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
'If we can work something out, that would be great and if we can't, probably bad things would happen.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15524609/US-fighter-jets-shoots-Iranian-drone-approached-aircraft-career.html
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