US Navy shoots down ‘aggressively approaching’ Iranian drone in Arabian Sea

The shootdown came within hours of another confrontation in the region, during which Iranian forces harassed a US-flagged and US-crewed merchant vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US military. US Central Command said the Shahed-139 drone was downed by an F-35C fighter jet operating from the Abraham Lincoln, which was sailing roughly 500 miles (800 kilometres) from Iran’s southern coast at the time. The statement added that no American personnel were injured and no equipment was damaged.