A US warship in the Strait of Hormuz. AFP.
Iran claims to have succeeded in flying a surveillance drone near US warships including an aircraft carrier. AFP. A video published by an Iranian news agency showed the drone overflying several US warships including a carrier. The drone was able to evade US defenses which didn't appear to realize that the drone was nearby. The incident comes during high tensions between the United States and Iran.
A high definition footage obtained by #IRGC naval forces shows the #US warships being closely monitored in the #PersianGulf waters, south of #Iranhttps://t.co/BEaY2NhbIL pic.twitter.com/k8Pzh8wdGO— Tasnim News Agency (@Tasnimnews_EN) April 27, 2019
My Comment:
Just a quick post on this one as there isn't too much to discus. It does not reflect well on the US Navy that a drone was able to get this close to the aircraft carrier. If they are able to get that close with a surveillance drone then they probably could do the same with an armed one.
My guess is that this drone was too small to show up on radar. The video makes it seem like it was fairly large but perhaps the radar operators confused it with something else? You would think they could have shot it down easily. I mean even if it couldn't be detected by radar it should have been visible to Mk1 eyeballs. The only other possibility I can think of is that nobody wanted to cause an international incident over a drone, so they let it take some pictures.
This doesn't bode well for us if we ever have an actual war with Iran, which I hope we can avoid. If we do it looks like the Iranians may be able to attack our carriers and other ships with drones. And even if they don't, they can use these drones to locate our fleet and attack our ships with more conventional forces.
Finally, I have to say that the drone sounded like a giant insect in the RT version of the video that had the annoying music cut out. That doesn't have much to do with anything but I thought it was funny.
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