Iranian drone nearly hits US Navy fighter jet in Gulf, US defense official says
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. The F-18 “maneuvered to avoid collision,” said the official, who described the unarmed Iranian drone as a Qom-1. The official described the encounter as “unsafe and unprofessional…and ...
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