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\nThe amphibious assault ship USS Boxer transits California\u2019s San Diego Bay<\/p>\n
\nThe amphibious assault ship USS Boxer transits California\u2019s San Diego Bay<\/p>\n
USS Boxer used electronic measures to take down a drone that was operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Pentagon sources. The Navy says the drone was destroyed in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after it came too close to the vessel and repeated warnings went unheeded.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Defense Department officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, say the drone was one of several threats to the Boxer as it passed through the narrow waterway near Iran’s coast. They say at least one Iranian helicopter and several fast boats also were moving toward the ship on Thursday morning. The actions prompted the Boxer to send up a helicopter, which then flew side-by-side with the Iranian aircraft to ward it off.<\/p>\n
The boats eventually followed radio warnings to break off contact, but the drone headed toward the Boxer instead of veering off, the sources say. Its presence was deemed a potential threat to flight operations aboard the amphibious assault ship, which carries a number of helicopters along with Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and a handful of fighter jets.<\/p>\n
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\nLight Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS)<\/p>\n
The news site Military.com<\/a> says a new anti-drone system used by the Marine Corps was responsible for bringing down the Iranian drone, though the military has not confirmed that report. USNI News<\/a> notes that the Navy has previously disclosed that the Marines have operated the jamming system on the deck of a U.S. ship. <\/p>\n By: Amir Vahdat, Darlene Superville, and Robert Burns, The Associated Press<\/strong> The Iranian military said all its drones had returned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with a U.S. vessel the previous day.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else,\u201d tweeted Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.<\/p>\n The strait is at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and serves as the passageway for a fifth of all global crude exports; a clash there highlights the risk of war between Iran and the U.S.<\/p>\n Trump on Thursday said the amphibious assault ship Boxer took defensive action after an Iranian drone closed to within 1,000 yards of the warship and ignored multiple calls to stand down.<\/p>\n Trump blamed Iran for a “provocative and hostile” action and said the U.S. responded in self-defense. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told reporters as he arrived for a meeting at the United Nations that “we have no information about losing a drone today.”<\/p>\n Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on its website Friday that it would release images from the drone \u2014 taken both before and after the U.S. claimed it was downed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Waiting on the prints to dry? The article in its entirity may be viewed here: Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nTEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 Iran on Friday denied President Donald Trump\u2019s statement that a U.S. warship destroyed an Iranian drone near the Persian Gulf after it threatened the ship \u2014 an incident that marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than a month after Iran downed an American drone in the same waterway and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike.<\/p>\n