Iran Drone Stalks U.S. Carrier?
13th Nov 2006, 22:47 GMT
There's supposed to be a protective bubble around American aircraft carriers, both on the sea, and in the air. Come too close, and you will get smoked. Or, at least, that's the idea. But the Iranians are now claiming that they've punctured this bubble, with an robotic plane. Let's hope that the footage is fake, as some are saying. Iran's Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone. The brief minute-long film, which was shown on Al-Alam television's evening news bulletin, showed wobbly aerial footage of an aircraft carrier stacked with war planes as it sailed. The television's anchor said the film, the property of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, showed a vessel from "the US fleet in the Persian Gulf". "A source in the Revolutionary Guard said the drone carried out its mission without US fighter pilots reaching it," the television said. It said there were 10 such films taken by the drone which showed "more precise information and details about military equipment, foreign forces, and their activities in the Persian Gulf." The station did not name the vessel nor did it...
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