US fighter jet shoots down Iranian drone ‘in self defence’

The Iranian drone was approaching the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Gulf (Picture: MC1 Brian M. Wilbur)

The US military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday after it ‘aggressively’ approached an American aircraft carrier.

A F-35 US fighter jet shot down the Iranian Shahed-139 drone as it was flying towards the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

The clash took place approximately 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, hours before Iranian ships tried to seize a US-flagged merchant vessel...