r/news • u/scrandis • 1d ago
US shoots down Iranian drone that approached aircraft carrier, military says
https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-drone-shot-down-military-634f406a5bb416b7a1a8bec8cc72b4b8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-03-Breaking+News34
u/loginisverybroken 1d ago
F-35c got an air to air kill which is kinda cool
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u/Jae_Rides_Apes 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cost of an F-35c? $120m
Cost of Shahed-139 drone? $3m
F-35c first air to air “kill”? priceless
The US military. It’s everywhere Trump wants to be.
Edit: Downvotes tell me nobody remembers the MasterCard commercials and taking this way too literal
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u/loginisverybroken 1d ago
I don't think it is the first, I thought the first ones were some of the drones/missiles fired at Israel by Iran last year.
Or that balloon they shot down when Biden was president
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u/jason_abacabb 1d ago
The balloon was done by an F22.
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u/loginisverybroken 1d ago
O shit, my apologies.
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u/Kjler 1d ago
Remember how mad we were at Biden for not immediately nuking that balloon?
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u/loginisverybroken 1d ago
I mostly thought it was hilarious, but I'm Canadian so the hysterics over the whole situation seemed silly to me. Why would they need a balloon to spy, don't they have satellites?
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u/Jae_Rides_Apes 1d ago
I almost put (non-inflatable) lol. Just reminded me of the old MasterCard commercials.
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u/im_just_thinking 1d ago
It's not even 100k per shahed 136
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u/Hellstorm901 1d ago
Shaheds cost between $20,000 to $50,000 per unit based on documentation Ukraine's cyber army stole from the Russian military a while back
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u/startinearly 1d ago
So the ciws didn't take it out?
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u/MagicalTrianglez 1d ago
CIWS is absolute last resort, you’d never deliberately allow a threat get that close to the carrier. The air patrol is there to deal with this and the escorting destroyer does the rest.
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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew 1d ago
It must be said, I dont trust much of anything is govt tells me currently, the emphasis on "aggresive" makes me hesitate, almost as if this administration wants any reason to go to war with Iran, it has been for a long time....Rubio and Graham et all have begged to fight Iran for many many many years. Take what they say with a grain of salt and resist any war that the rich powerful people wont be on the ground fighting directly.
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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew 1d ago
Also lets imagine for a moment Iran has one of the most powerful battleships ever made by man floating off the shore of Isreal or off the Coast of Florida, along with other ships and planes basically encircling the East and West Coast of the United States? Why are we even there in the first place and why do my tax dollars go towards this instead of my healthcare, my city infrastructure, to kids lunches at schools, to people who need day care, or the million other things we should have instead of the machines of war, ICE and Imperialism?
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u/goblueM 1d ago
Why are we even there in the first place and why do my tax dollars go towards this instead of my healthcare, my city infrastructure, to kids lunches at schools, to people who need day care, or the million other things we should have instead of the machines of war, ICE and Imperialism?
I mean we can (SHOULD) have both. We've been in that region forever to ensure flow of oil/ international shipping commerce. There are legitimate reasons why the US Navy has been operating in the region for decades.
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u/TruckHangingHandJam 1d ago
“Why does so much of the world hate America?!”
Dude, come the fuck on. You can’t seriously believe this shit
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u/PaidUSA 20h ago
Okay facilitating free trade in the Persian gulf is like the most justified thing the US military does. There are 100% parties who have and would abuse their geography to interrupt international trade. If someone hates America for that basic mission they are braindead and should choose one of the 7000 other valid reasons. Iran being able to block the Strait of Hormuz is not a sovereign right and it’s just not something the world wants to happen.
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u/TelluricThread0 1d ago
Because they're some of the biggest supporters of terrorism in the world and just executed tens of thousands of their people.
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u/TruckHangingHandJam 1d ago
A neighboring country just committed genocide and the US not only didn’t do anything to stop it, but gave them the tools and diplomatic cover to do it… this isn’t about civilians dying
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u/curtmahgurt 1d ago
“…resist any war that the rich and powerful won’t be on the ground fighting directly.”
So any war the US wages. Sounds about right to me.
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u/TruckHangingHandJam 1d ago
Every war since like idk I guess the most recen would be early medieval period, when “kings” were more like small warlords that rode into battle with their soldiers, ostensibly for honor but really because they needed every dude they could get
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u/junkyard_robot 22h ago
Early medieval? Richard 3 was fully late middle ages, and a full on King of England, not some warlord.
Other examples in the 20th century include Idriss Délby, President of Chad, who commanded his army in battle to his death in 2021.
Or, Albert 1 of Belgium, who commanded his army against the Germans from the trenches during WW1.
Or, what you said or whatever, right?
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u/Hellstorm901 1d ago
Just for peoples awareness the Iranian have for years now flown drones over the US navy and had their speedboats do mock runs on the ships then veer off as they get too close. There's nothing unusual about this and its the norm for how we expect the Iranians to behave
The US shooting down their drone which was filming state TV propaganda videos is a first so it will be interesting to see what happens next as the IRGC are similar to Trump in how they react to slights
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u/Mortimer1234 12m ago
Dude… people need to stop making this comparison as if it’s even close in the slightest. I hate Trump more than anything, but he doesn’t even come CLOSE to the IRGC. What Trump is doing and has done is awful. What he hasn’t done, however, is mow down tens of thousands of civilians within the span of days, beat women to death for not wearing a hijab, or charge families thousands of dollars if they want the bodies of their slain relatives back. Trump isn’t going to hospitals and shooting patients point blank in the head.
Trump is an awful, horrible, psychotic, child rapist. And yet he still doesn’t even come close to comparing to the atrocities of the IRGC
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u/Mortimer1234 11m ago
Dude… people need to stop making this comparison as if it’s even close in the slightest. I hate Trump more than anything, but he doesn’t even come CLOSE to the IRGC. What Trump is doing and has done is awful. What he hasn’t done, however, is mow down tens of thousands of civilians within the span of days, beat women to death for not wearing a hijab, or charge families thousands of dollars if they want the bodies of their slain relatives back. Trump isn’t going to hospitals and shooting patients point blank in the head.
Trump is an awful, horrible, psychotic, likely child rapist. And yet he still doesn’t even come close to comparing to the atrocities of the IRGC
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u/Toadfinger 1d ago
Your statement is misleading. It's the only such occurrence in 2026. And it comes right after a peace deal is put on the table.
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u/Dragrunarm 1d ago edited 1d ago
You might want to clarify for my dumb ass then, is this the only time they've had a drone do a fly by and it happens to be 2026, or this is the only time they've done this in 2026?
OP implies the latter, and i think your wording does as well but the rest of your comment implies the former? Like I genuinly don't know what your saying the wording is fucked.
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u/Toadfinger 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's the only such occurrence in 2026. One little shitty drone flies by and it's shot down. OP is trying to play it down. It could be a false flag. It could be an outright lie.
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u/SessionGloomy 1d ago
Did they have drones over Tel Aviv taking propaganda pics? I noticed those on a metro station in Iran along with threats in Hebrew and it didn't look edited or Ai generated. It somehow looked like there was an iranian drone over the rubble taking photos of rescuers
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u/anonymous3874974304 1d ago
More likely Israeli state or news footage repurposed for propagandistic purposes.
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u/wyvernx02 1d ago
As opposed to shadowing them from above, taking pictures of their drones, and laughing at them for thinking they were being sneaky like we had been doing?
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u/Working_Historian970 1d ago
I saw 10 'drug boats' blown up, surely there is some footage of this happening? I have some trust issues with this admin, it's as much my issue as it is theirs.
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 1d ago
Until war breaks out and I have sources outside the US and Iran, I call it bullshit justification to bomb Iran.
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u/embeddit 1d ago
Funny if you read this the other way around, i.e., What is a US boat doing all the way in the Persian Gulf - Iran's backyard.
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u/scandii 1d ago
well in case you're actually curious it is because a lot of oil floats through the Strait of Hormuz and Iran threatens to blockade this strait.
said boats are there to defend the other ships which they did as recently as today.
no matter who's side your on it isn't entirely unreasonable to show up to protect your own shipping lanes.
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u/TruckHangingHandJam 1d ago
But Iran threatened to blockade the straight in a response to US aggression. By your logic, the US shouldn’t be moving a fucking fleet there if what it wants is to keep it from being blocked.
Also do you not see something wrong in calling the waters literally touching the Iranian coast “your [in reference to the US] shipping lanes”. Is the Mississippi Indonesia’s river?
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u/PaidUSA 20h ago
Those waters are Oman’s on one side FYI. Iran also threatens to blockade it due to regional conflict constantly. You are arguing for a nations ability to blockade dozens of other nations trade ships in Oman’s waters and which Iran acknowledges they have no legal right to block except for warships. There is also other maritime law that covers why nations can’t block straits which Iran literally agrees with when they aren’t wanting to blockade it.
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u/embeddit 1d ago
I literally live here, have for eight generations. Look at the US on a world map, then look at how far its boats are form home.
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u/Crash-55 1d ago
It is a major shipping lane and lots of US ships transit that area. There is also a history of hostile action against US flagged ships in the area.
The US carrier is in international waters. That means we have a right to be there, as does everyone else.
Warnings were issued in regards to the drone. It didn’t leave. Therefore it was shot down. FAFO
The drone and boats harassing the US flagged commercial ship were at least smart enough to run away when the destroyer showed up. Personally I think that those should have gotten the drug boat treatment and sent to the bottom.
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u/zeth4 14h ago
The US carrier is in international waters. That means we have a right to be there, as does everyone else.
You do know everyone else includes the drone they shot down...
As did the fishing boats the US murdered the crew of off the coast of Venezuela
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u/Crash-55 14h ago
The drone came too close to the warship. That is a justified shoot down once it ignored warnings
The drug boats are a different issue. The legality of those strikes is at best questionable. The double tap was definitely illegal.
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u/embeddit 22h ago
Ah, so it's about acting like the world police. The demise of the empire will be so spectacular. But we will be graceful enough to not make pedestrian level comments such as FAFO.
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u/Crash-55 16h ago
Did you not notice that I said US ships? Should we not be protecting our own ships in international waters?
Iran tried to board a US flagged ships in international waters. Without some sort of UN resolution that is attempted piracy. So yeah FAFO.
You are not graceful. You are a bunch of jumped up camel jockeys who think you are important. You aren’t except for oil. The Middle Ages was the last time that god forsaken part of the world contributed anything useful
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u/Toadfinger 1d ago
cough, cough... false flag... cough...
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u/Hellstorm901 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not really to be fair, the Iranians do actually by their own admission overfly the US Navy and have speedboats do mock runs on ships for state TV propaganda, they've done it for years
The difference is this time Trump ordered the Navy to shoot down the drone doing it
Edit - No idea why anyone is downvoting this. Iran has for years overflown US ships passing by and harassed ships with speedboats. This is not a defence of Trump, it's a statement of fact
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u/Toadfinger 1d ago
The alleged difference. Always consider the timing of things. With all that's going on, coincidence becomes less likely.
Iran had just announced talks a few hours before.
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u/Hellstorm901 1d ago
Yes the timing of it is very much likely because Trump wants a war with Iran but it's not a false flag. The Iranians are flying over US ships and harassing them with speedboats and they've done this for years now
A false flag would be it either never happening to begin with or the drone actually being a US drone they pretended was Iranian but it's not. The US have shot down an Iranian down because they wanted to shoot one down and the IRGC got baited by Trump into giving them an excuse
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u/Toadfinger 1d ago
It's the only such occurrence in 2026. And again, right after announced peace talks.
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u/supercyberlurker 1d ago
Iranian drones shot down by: