“Filmed from the cockpit of an aircraft near Shiraz, Iran. No warning from air traffic control who had no idea. Turned away immediately.”
So reads a post on X which has received over two million views since it was published during the night of October 2.
The clip was later published by New York Post who claimed it was filmed from a British Airways plane – a claim unsubstantiated in open flight data.
The London-based think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, has previously identified Shiraz as a base for Iranian robots.
See the image review in the clip above.