The US Navy has said that footage of a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf which Iran claimed it shot with a drone appears to be "several years old", AFP reported.
The video was shot by a military drone, Iran's Tasnim news agency claimed in a Sunday (April 28th) report that included some of the imagery from the surveillance flight.
"The footage the Iranians recently released... appears to be several years old, and of the last deployment to the Arabian Gulf by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)," Lt. Chloe Morgan, US Naval Forces Central Command spokeswoman told AFP.
The video, which could not be independently verified, showed a light blue drone of Iran’s Islamic Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) taking off from a desert base near the sea, followed by imagery purportedly from its cameras of an escort ship and then an aircraft carrier with planes parked on the deck.
Tasnim did not identify the vessels or say when the drone footage was shot, but in the video, the number "69" is seen clearly on the aircraft carrier.
The report comes nearly three weeks after the US blacklisted the IRGC as a "foreign terrorist organisation".
