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Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/06/09/amid-us-tension-iran-builds-fake-aircraft-carrier-to-attack/
Amid U.S. Tension, Iran Builds Fake Aircraft Carrier to Attack
(AP-Boston Herald) Iran has constructed a new mock-up of an aircraft carrier off its southern coast for potential live-fire drills. Seen in satellite photographs obtained Tuesday by AP, the vessel resembles the Nimitz-class carriers that the U.S. Navy routinely sails into the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz. The replica carries 16 mock-ups of fighter jets on its deck. The fake carrier's appearance in the port city of Bandar Abbas suggests Iran's Revolutionary Guard is preparing an encore of a mock-sinking it conducted in 2015.