US navy said surveillance drone flew over American and French aircraft carriers on 12 January but could not verify whether footage on Iranian TV was from that incidentIran flew a surveillance drone over a US aircraft carrier and took precise” photographs of it as part of an ongoing naval drill,state media has reported. The US navy said an unarmed Iranian drone flew near a French and American carrier earlier this month, but couldn’t confirm it was the same incident.
The reported overflight by the unmanned aircraft came after a series of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the greater Persian Gulf, and including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and its brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.
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Source: theguardian.com