{"id":65294,"date":"2026-02-03T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-flying-towards-aircraft-carrier-navy-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:56:31","slug":"us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-flying-towards-aircraft-carrier-navy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-flying-towards-aircraft-carrier-navy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US shoots down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier, navy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shahed-139 drone approached USS Abraham Lincoln \u2018with unclear intent\u2019 as US warships headed towards Iran<\/p>\n<p>The US military says it has shot down an Iranian drone that \u201caggressively\u201d approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying toward the carrier \u201cwith unclear intent\u201d when it was shot down by a F-35 US fighter jet, US Central Command said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-arabian-sea-navy-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahed-139 drone approached USS Abraham Lincoln \u2018with unclear intent\u2019 as US warships headed towards Iran The US military says it has shot down an Iranian drone that \u201caggressively\u201d approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying toward the carrier \u201cwith unclear intent\u201d when it was shot down &#8230; <a title=\"US shoots down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier, navy says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-flying-towards-aircraft-carrier-navy-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US shoots down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier, navy says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}