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John Day

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They welded a container-ship into a drone-platform. Iran’s First Ever Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Promises to Expand Reach of Stealth Drone Fleet
Iranian media has published the first clear footage of the country’s first aircraft carrier, the Shahid Bagheri, which is set to facilitate forward drone operations by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Referred to as a “forward base ship,” the warship features an angled flight deck and ski jump launch system similar to those on Russian Kuznetsov Class and British Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. Iran has been able to built the carrier on a very low budget by converting a commercial container ship, the Perarin, into a carrier. A second container ship is also expected to be converted into a drone operating platform, which will be designated the Shahid Mahdavi…
..Notable was a reconnaissance operation into Israeli airspace in 2018, where a Saegheh stealth drone’s radar evading capabilities allowed it to evade multiple shootdown attempts by Israeli Patriot air defence systems. If deployed from carriers, the long ranges of these stealth drones could facilitate surprise attacks from unexpected directions and against targets much further afield. https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-carrier-shahid-bagheri-drone