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US Forces sink first aircraft carrier since WW2

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U.S. forces struck an Iranian aircraft carrier for drones in the first hours of the war on Feb. 28, U.S. Central Command said on March 2, making the IRIS Shahid Bagheri one of the most high-profile targets acknowledged so far.

Central Command announced the strike in a social media post that disputed “false messaging” by Iran that a U.S. aircraft carrier had been sunk.

“The only carrier that has been hit is the Shahid Bagheri, an Iranian drone carrier. U.S. forces struck the ship within hours of launching Operation Epic Fury,” the Central Command post on X.com says.

U.S. Struck Iranian Drone Carrier In First Hours Of War | Aviation Week Network

U.S. forces struck an Iranian aircraft carrier for drones in the first hours of the war on Feb. 28, U.S. Central Command said on March 2.
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The statement makes the Shahid Bagheri the only named target among nine Iranian naval vessels struck so far by U.S. forces, Central Command said.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy created the Shahid Bagheri by converting the former Perarin container ship.

“With a length of 787 feet and a takeoff runway of approximately 570 feet, the Shahid Bagheri is well-equipped to support a variety of Iranian drones, including loitering munitions,” Can Kasapglu, a nonresident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in a year-old analysis shortly after the IRGC unveiled the converted ship.

Iran has made a practice of converting container ships into IRGC navy vessels. The former Sarvin container ship was converted into a floating missile platform named the IRIS Shahid Mahdavi. The Iranian navy also fields the Makran, a former crude oil tanker, as a helicopter carrier. The Shahid Roudaki also functions as a drone and missile launch platform, having been converted from a container ship, Kasapglu wrote.
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Update on this OP target.

UPDATE: 12:10 PM EST –

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has now released a video showing a strike on the Iranian ‘drone carrier’ Shahid Bagheri, an unusual ship you can read more about here. At a press conference late yesterday, U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, head of CENTCOM, said an unnamed “Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier” had been targeted “just the last few hours.” In a post on X on March 2 denying claims of an attack on a U.S. carrier, CENTCOM had “the only carrier that has been hit is the Shahid Bagheri.” It remains unclear whether the Shahid Bagheri was struck multiple times.



A video clip, taken from the shore, has now also emerged that is said to show the Shahid Bagheri on fire following a strike. The U.S. military has made clear that the destruction of Iran’s naval capabilities is a core objective of Operation Epic Fury.

 
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