Iranian drone nearly hits US Navy fighter jet in Gulf, US defense official says

Fox News ^ | 8/8/2017 | By Lucas Tomlinson

[b4its2late]

An Iranian drone nearly collided with a U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet while the American jet was in a holding pattern, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.

The jet was about to land aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which recently arrived in the Persian Gulf.

It was the first time an Iranian drone has “interrupted a flight pattern,” the official said.

[Paladin2]

Killer Drone Bots are coming.

[Obadiah]

I find it very disturbing that this drone apparently was able to come this close to the aircraft, and more importantly, to the aircraft carrier completely undetected. That is frightening.

[M Kehoe]

Hi guy.

None of the radars picked it up? Stealth drone?

5.56mm

[b4its2late]

Hi. Yeah, I know. It’ll be interesting to see what happened, if we ever find out.

[Rob the Ugly Dude]

So our billion-dollar carriers can’t defend against simple drones?

[smokingfrog]

http://www.janes.com/article/64262/iran-develops-two-new-uav-types-from-captured-rq-170-sentinel

[Blue Jays]

"...Iranian drone..."

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Shouldn't we have the capability to simultaneously track every airplane, drone, seagull, and gnat within a 100-mile circle around the aircraft carrier? Unreal.

[Jeff Chandler]

Track down the source of the signal controlling the drone and send the operators a gift.

[Molon Labbie]

CIWS anyone? Bueller?

Time to give the Iranians a bloody drone nose...

[central_va]

Does it say nobody was tracking that drone? No it does not.

[Psalm 73]

"...disturbing that this drone apparently was able to come this close to the aircraft, and more importantly, to the aircraft carrier..."

That was my first thought.
This keeps up we'll lose a plane. Much easier to bloody their nose now, than if they actually draw American blood.
What kind of "proportional response" would be appropriate if we lose a pilot? (Maybe Shah Reza McMaster would like to field that question....)

[SandRat]

Give the order Weapons HOT! And shoot down the next /drone that comes close.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Shoot down every drone within 5 miles of any USN ship.

[b4its2late]

I like that response!

[b4its2late]

You’d think...

[b4its2late]

For sure.

[factoryrat]

The US military is too busy promoting diversity, LGBT rights, purging Christians from their ranks, and subverting their CiC to worry about things like combat with our enemies and protecting the US.

Sheesh, I wish that was sarcasm.

[Theoria]

Wow. From another article:

'The Navy said this was the thirteenth such "interaction between US and Iranian maritime forces in 2017." Pentagon spokesman US Navy Capt. Jeff Davis previously told reporters that there had been 35 incidents of such behavior by Iranian vessels in 2016.'

[Redwood71]

The drone pilot was another former cab driver from New York.

rwood