Some time in 2022, Iran began building its first aircraft carrier. Two years later, Shahid Bahman Bagheri is nearing completion. Recent photos reveal important finishing touches to the nearly 800-foot vessel, including an angled flight deck with markings to help guide landing aircraft.
Bagheri is not a proper purpose-built carrier like the US Navy’s thousand-foot supercarriers. Instead, she’s a commercial container ship with modifications that allow her to launch and land small aircraft – almost certainly drones.
We’re gonna love this new warfare.
In both world wars surreptitiously armed merchant ships were sent to roam the seas preying on the unwary.
