Alwaght- An Iranian drone has approached a US aircraft carrier group in the Persian Gulf and filmed the ships close-up in HD.
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency published an undated clip, which was released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, showing a homemade Ababail-3 drone taking off from an Iranian airfield with the musical accompaniment of a rather epic tune.
Its audacious mission proved successful, according to Tasnim, which reported on the close-up shots of the USS 'Dwight D. Eisenhower' aircraft carrier apparently taken by the UAV.
The footage was recorded from such a small distance that the numbers on the wings of E-2C reconnaissance planes and F-18 fighter jets on deck are easily distinguishable. Iranian graphic designers even captioned some of the aircraft in the video.
Tasnim hinted that the drone flyby was a response to the US designating the Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization"earlier in April. It was the first time that a whole foreign military was put on the blacklist by Washington.
USS 'Dwight D. Eisenhower' is the flagship of the Carrier Strike Group 10, which also includes guided-missile cruisers USS 'Monterey,' USS 'San Jacinto' and USS 'Vella Gulf.' The air wing of the 333-meter-long aircraft carrier consists of around 90 planes and helicopters.
