{"id":74,"date":"2026-05-01T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lustrousnews.wiki\/?p=74"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:30:59","slug":"iran-sent-500-kamikaze-drones-at-2-us-carriers-7-minutes-later-both-had-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lustrousnews.wiki\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Iran Sent 500 Kamikaze Drones at 2 US Carriers \u2014 7 Minutes Later Both Had Disappeared."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-img wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-142.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-142.png 1280w, https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-142-768x492.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"820\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-body\">\n<div class=\"entry-content visible-content\">\n<p>In a reckless escalation that ended in total disaster, Iran launched a m\u1d00ssive swarm of 500 kamikaze drones targeting two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC hoped the sheer volume of the attack would overwhelm American defenses and deliver a historic blow to the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next was breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>In just\u00a07 minutes, the U.S. Navy completely annihilated the entire drone swarm. Advanced electronic warfare systems jammed the drones\u2019 guidance, while F-35 fighters, SM-3 interceptors, and close-in weapon systems from the carrier strike groups tore through the sky. One by one, the Iranian drones were blown out of the air in spectacular mid-flight explosions. By the seventh minute, not a single drone remained. The two American carriers, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Gerald R. Ford, continued operations completely unscathed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1962\" src=\"https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-149.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-149.png 1280w, https:\/\/flashpointnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-149-768x492.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"820\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1982206\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This latest humiliating failure adds to the mountain of defeats crushing the Iranian regime. Despite firing everything it has left \u2014 boat swarms, ballistic missiles, and now m\u1d00ssive drone attacks \u2014 Iran has been unable to land a meaningful strike on U.S. naval forces. Its nuclear sites are gone, its secret plutonium stockpile captured, its IRGC leadership imprisoned, its air bases destroyed, and its naval power lying at the bottom of the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s strategy of ironclad naval dominance is working with devastating efficiency. The Strait of Hormuz remains fully under American control, and every desperate Iranian attack only accelerates the regime\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The message to Tehran is now impossible to ignore: your weapons are obsolete, your tactics are predictable, and your \u201cfight to the bitter end\u201d is nothing more than slow-motion suicide.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s carriers remain the undisputed masters of the sea. U.S. naval power has once again proven unbreakable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a reckless escalation that ended in total disaster, Iran launched a m\u1d00ssive swarm of 500 kamikaze drones targeting two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Strait of Hormuz. 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