Marines on USS Boxer JAMMED Iranian Drone to down it

The Iranian drone brought down in the Persian Gulf (Strait of Hormuz) area on July 18, 2019 was brought down by electronic jamming rather than by kinetic missiles or shells. It has now been reported Marines on amphibious assault carrier USS Boxer used "Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (LMADIS) (legal) electronic jamming equipment. This is mounted on a Polaris MRZR dune buggy (similar to the buggy above) with the jammer used to bring down the fixed-wing (ie. not rotary-wing) Iranian drone. 

When a drone (unmanned aerial vehicle/system) threatened USS Boxer an intrepid Marine technician drove the jammer-buggy combination along 41,000 ton USS Boxer's large "flat-top" deck. Presumably US super-carriers in the Middle East region are similarly protected by Marine or US Navy driven jammer buggies. 

Hence USS Boxer's various kinetic anti-air capable defences (RIM-116, and RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles, 20mm Phalanx CIWS 25 mm and 50 calibre machine guns) were NOT used.

The downed Iranian “drone” (unmanned aerial vehicle/system) that approached within 900 meters of USS Boxer may have been a:

·       H-110 Sarir (UAV)

·       Hazem (UAV)

·       HESA Ababil

·       HESA Karrar

·       IAIO Fotros

·       Qods Mohajer (eg. the Mohajer-6)

·       Shahed 129 or a

·       Yasir UAV

Trump on USS Boxer downing the Iranian drone.

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Pete