With relations between the US and Iran even worse than usual, Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has practiced attacking a fake aircraft carrier. As part of large-scale military drills across the south of the Iran, the IRGC circled a mock aircraft carrier – made to resemble the Nimitz-class ships of the US Navy, complete with models of warplanes parked on its deck – and attacked it from the air. Also on the agenda were mine-laying operations, tactics to cut off naval connections between the hypothetical (American) enemy, helicopter missile combat operations, and launching coast-to-sea missiles. Washington’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Tehran has escalated animosity between the nations in recent months, and the Iranian government is keen to show it’s not afraid to fight.
Strait of Hormuz war games | Iran’s troops practice attack on mock US aircraft carrier
