USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer, which was captured from the British during the War of 1812.
Posted on 07/18/2019 6:44:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone threatening U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States took action on Thursday amid escalating tensions with the Middle East country. President Trump announced the event at a press conference soon after it happened. Iran has not yet responded.
"[The USS Boxer] took defensive action against an Iranian drone," Trump said. "It was threatening the ship and the ship's crew. The drone was immediately destroyed."
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USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer, which was captured from the British during the War of 1812.
I’m hoping directed energy, but who knows.
[it was destroyed, but without shooting it]
They showed it a picture of Kathy Griffin?
It was a dampening weapon (jamming device), at least that is what is being reported.
Wonder if it was jammed, went into some kind of default flight pattern before running out of gas and crashing.
Tit for tat.
the evil eye
Chuck Norris just looked up.
Did they use a shotgun?
WTF is wrong with these fanatics
(I had to ask )
Now we’re even without starting a war.
You’d think so, but nah..!
The one we had that they got? That baby was yuuuuge and expensive —over $120 million, easy. A really yuge, high-tech one.
Iran has several platforms now, two in fact that Obama gave them, more or less, so at least as far as the UAV balance goes, we’ll be in the red for, meh, 8 or 9 more shoot-downs, quite easily.
Ours was also old and about to be replaced anyway.
It may have been used as an expendable to test their defenses on purpose.
ALRIGHT!!!
Looks like a WW-2 “Jeep” carrier
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