(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.
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