Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile at a mock-up aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions with the U.S.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television reported Tuesday, in an exercise aimed at threatening the U.S. amid tensions between Tehran and Washington.
The drill, in a waterway through which 20% of all traded oil passes, underlines the lingering threat of military conflict between Iran and the U.S. after last summer saw a series of incidents targeting oil tankers in the region. In January, aWhile the COVID-19 pandemic hasfor months, there have been increasing signs of a confrontation as America argues to extend a years-long U.N. weapons embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October.
Iranian commandos fast-roped down from a helicopter onto the mock aircraft carrier in the footage aired Tuesday from the exercise called “Great Prophet 14.” Other footage showed fast boats encircling the replica ship, kicking up white waves in their wake.Iranian troops also fired anti-aircraft batteries at a drone target in the exercise from a location that state television described as being near the port city of Bandar Abbas.
The Guard will use “long-range ballistic missiles with the ability to hit far-reaching aggressor floating targets” during the drill, said Abbas Nilforoushan, the guard’s deputy commander for operations, according to Revolutionary Guard website sepahnews.com. That suggests the drill could see a repeat of what happened in 2015, when the guard sank a replica target.
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