(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
Amusing factoid. That drone's street price is less than the hourly rate to fly a F35 fighter. Google for fun.
ReplyDeleteAnd Iran can build them as China still sells them rare earths unlike America. Again Google.
Pity as Iran is in a water emergency that Trump could actually offer the fleets massive desalination ability and an apology and the Iranians would be stunned and amazed.
Not like our ability to pound the Iranian proxy Hothi's with 2 carriers and their groups worked well as it's currently Hothi's 2 Navy 0.
Yeah, we've done the humanitarian thing for shithole countries like Haiti.
Simpy comments like yours are the reason I will eventually go back to making people sign in and moderating comments.
DeleteGoogle that.
Odd how google remembers my name one time and not the next. I'll try to add my name next time it forgets again.
DeleteSo, are my facts incorrect or simply annoying, Sir?
Happily, every hour shows more hope that Trump listened to his military advisers and will hopefully declare "Mission Accomplished" maybe from the flight deck of the Lincon.
Or taking a page from Mossad just target the diplomats again.
You just spew liberal talking points which contribute nothing worthwhile to the conversation. If I want to talk to TDS infected libtards, I'll go to their sites ... but I don't.
DeleteModerating comments are surely a pain in the ass. I have suggested to Phil to register to comment where you have to pick a handle, have to use one IP address and one email address. That would get rid of a lot of anonymous asswipe commentators...
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't like anonymouse commentators. If you can't pick a name and stand by your comment then I have no time or use of you.
DeleteAgreed. I like it that people don't have to sign in but I really don't feel like spending the time I spend on here to be spent arguing with people I wouldn't normally talk to in real life. And I'm burnt out on trying to tell stupid people how to not be stupid.
DeleteOddly Karl I've posted stuff here before you agreed with.
DeleteBut whatever, you pay the tab here.
I read you because you have good points now and then.
BTW what is liberal about pointing out issues that are Real World(tm)?
Liberals don't like facts, only opinions that sound like their own words....
Need to treat actual occupied aircraft the same...and those boghammer speed boats. Come anywhere near a US Navy ship and die. Needs to be SOP.
ReplyDeleteI concur. You know the phrase ... play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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