{"id":28344,"date":"2016-01-29T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2016\/01\/29\/iran-says-it-flew-drone-over-u-s-aircraft-carrier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:35:59","slug":"iran-says-it-flew-drone-over-u-s-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2016\/01\/29\/iran-says-it-flew-drone-over-u-s-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it flew drone over U.S. aircraft carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEHRAN,\u00a0Iran\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Iran\u00a0flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and took &#8220;precise&#8221; photographs of it as part of an ongoing naval drill, state television reported Friday. The Navy said an unarmed Iranian drone flew near a French and American carrier Jan. 12, but couldn&#8217;t confirm it was the same incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reported drone overflight comes after a series of naval incidents between\u00a0Iran\u00a0and the U.S. in the greater Persian Gulf, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/12\/29\/iranians-fire-rockets-near-carrier-harry-s-truman-strait-hormuz\/78048842\/\">test rocket fire<\/a> by the Islamic Republic and its brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/01\/13\/iran-releases-us-sailors-held-18-hours\/78716802\/\">capture of American sailors<\/a> who strayed into its territorial waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report by state television said the drone flight occurred on the third day of the naval exercise, suggesting it happened Friday. Later, its website and the semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to Iran&#8217;s\u00a0elite Revolutionary Guard, published footage it said was of the drone&#8217;s flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The footage showed the drone launch and later what appeared to be an aircraft carrier underway in a body of water. The footage zoomed into a row of fighter jets on the carrier&#8217;s deck. There were no identifying marks visible on the carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Associated Press could not independently verify the footage. Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said an unarmed Iranian drone flew near the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and &#8220;directly over&#8221; the aircraft carrier Harry S. 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The U.S. Navy later denied its operations were affected by the Iranian drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While\u00a0Iran\u00a0recently struck a nuclear deal with world powers including the U.S., its naval forces have continued its maneuvers.\u00a0Iran\u00a0has more than 1,240 miles\u00a0of shoreline facing the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has criticized some of those maneuvers, including what it called a &#8220;highly provocative&#8221; Iranian rocket test fire in December near its warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0Iran\u00a0denied launching rockets, though the U.S. later released footage showing the rocket fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Strait of Hormuz, which sees nearly a third of all oil traded by sea pass through it, has been the scene of past confrontations between America and\u00a0Iran, including a one-day naval battle in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January, Iranian forces captured 10 Navy sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters near Farsi Island, an outpost in the middle of the Persian Gulf that has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats since the 1980s. 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