Iran Claims Drone Shot Down by U.S. Was on ‘Routine and Lawful Mission’
Iran claims the drone shot down by the USS Abraham Lincoln was conducting a “routine and lawful mission over international waters.”

Iran claims the drone shot down by the USS Abraham Lincoln was conducting a “routine and lawful mission over international waters.”

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday launched one of its F-35C fighters to shoot down an unmanned Iranian aircraft that “aggressively approached” with “unclear intent.”

A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected before his stricken F-35 Lightning II single-seat fighter jet crashed and exploded during a training exercise Tuesday at Eielson Air Force Base southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska.

A U.S. Navy pilot was killed Friday when an F/A-18E Super Hornet jet crashed in the Mojave Desert near Trona, California, officials said.

The Navy recovered an F-35C Lightning II jet from the South China Sea that crashed on the USS Carl Vinson and landed in the water in January.

Leaked video shows an F-35C Lightning II crash on an aircraft carrier and plunge into the South China Sea, a Navy spokesman confirmed Monday.

The U.S. Navy was moving swiftly on Wednesday to begin full recovery operations of an F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter lost overboard after a “landing mishap” on the deck of USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the South China Sea.
