Iran builds fake U.S. carrier to attack

As tensions remain high between Iran and the United States, the Islamic Republic appears to have constructed a new mock-up of an aircraft carrier off its southern coast for potential live-fire drills


Bandar Abbas: Iran’s fake vessel resembles Nimitz-class carriers that U.S. Navy routinely sails into Gulf from Strait of Hormuz, where one-fifth of world’s oil passes through

Tehran
IRAN
BAHRAIN
U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet HQ 
IRAQ
SAUDI ARABIA
The Gulf
300km 185 miles

BANDAR ABBAS PORT
Naval area
500m 550 yards


FAKE CARRIER: Resembles dummy vessel destroyed in 2015 war games.
Length: 204m. Beam: 40m 

Mock-ups of U.S. F-5 Tiger II land-based aircraft

Target marking

No aircraft elevators or other details on deck

Island structure

Mock-ups of U.S. F/A-18 Hornet aircraft

Nimitz-class carrier 
Length: 333m 
Beam: 77m


Sources: Associated Press, Naval News/H I Sutton
Picture: AP 
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