USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the South China Sea on April 1, 2022. (U.S. Navy)
The Iranian military claimed on March 25 that it had targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with cruise missiles.
Press TV published a video stating that the military fired missiles at the carrier, while the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) provided some details on the attack, citing naval officials.
According to IRNA, the commander of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, said that the movements of the “enemy” aircraft carrier Lincoln are under continuous monitoring and would be targeted once it enters the range of Iran’s missile systems.
The agency said that cruise missiles capable of striking ships were launched from the coast toward the carrier, forcing it to change position.
The Lincoln came under attack on multiple occasions since the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran more than months ago.
In fact, President Donald Trump revealed just a day earlier that Iran fired 101 missiles at the aircraft carrier. He claimed, however, that “every single one was knocked down on the sea.”
“They shot 100 missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, one of the biggest ships in the world, actually. And of 101 missiles shot, every single one of them was knocked down. So you think of it, think of what that means. 101 missiles, highly sophisticated, very fast missiles shot, and of 101, all 101 were shot down, and now for the most part lying at the bottom of the sea,” Trump stated.
The Carrier Air Wing Nine — including dozens of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets, EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets, and F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter jets — has been launching strikes against targets in the Islamic Republic from the Lincoln, currently present in the Arabian Sea.
The Iranian claims about pushing back the Lincoln are true. The BBC recently located the carrier, based on satellite images, some 240 kilometers off the coast of Oman, and other reports suggest that it may be as far as 1,000 kilometers from the Islamic Republic.
It’s worth noting that when the war first broke out, the U.S. had a second aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, in the Middle East.
The carrier first launched strikes from the eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Israel, then moved into the northern Red Sea. Nevertheless, a fire broke out at the carrier’s laundry room, causing considerable damage and forcing it to withdraw to the Greek island of Crete where it will reportedly get repeated and depart back to the U.S.
In any case, the U.S. is now fighting under more pressure than it anticipated, and with less assets. A third carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush is reported to be on its war to the Middle East to join the war on Iran, but the deployment will likely take some time.
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make sure if it sinks, radiation fall out is towards india.
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it’s not just the carriers that are beginning to keep a safe distance from iran’s standoff weapons but also the awacs and the refueling tankers, so much so that the operations from such ranges become ineffective.
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some of the iranian missiles had highjy inflammable laundty in the warheads.
used diapers
probably no creases as it was steam iraned
too bad, russia didn’t send washing machines and dish washers
did iran say 100 missiles?
if trump said it then is false
he was being generous.
if the usadmin is sending the uss george h.w. bushwhacker then they should keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t go awol. some are saying that the trumpster is just stalling for time as he tries to move us grunts from iraq into iran. us forces might just find that they can get in but cannot get out and their transport and support is hundreds of miles away hiding from iranian tech.
now you’re just being silly
no, it is called “realistic”!
the age of the carrier is over… its gone the way of the battleship and dodo bird.
hahaha haha so funny
why is trump so willing to get 1000s of us sailors, soldiers for netanyahu? a couple of lucky shots by iranian scramjet powered, hypersonic, antiship missiles could sink a us carrier & potentially send their 5,600+ crews to the bottom of the sea. with one well placed shot, iran could cause more us killed in action than the 23+ years of the illegal war of aggression on iraq, based on lies about wmds. it’ll be worse than the sinking of the hms hood
well and then they can mobilize the entire us population cause those evil muslims killed “their boys”.
the usa has deployed thousands of marines to the region and now has rutters confirmed support from a 22 nation coalition of nato members so you’re wrong. they have more not less its iran that now has almost nothing left
don’t worry the sailors aboard all those ships will be rolling up socks, t-shirts and underwear and throwing them down the toilets just like they did to the now awol uss gerald r. ford carrier.
no person with self respect would want to die for war criminal netanyahu and dementia’s trump personal war of aggression.
p.s. my cousin pancho villa who works in the laundry room somewhere, he told me he fkeck up big time in the laundry room; but don’t tell nobody okey; or my cousin will get in big trouble.
pancho’s secret is safe with us.
give him a big drill.
nato coalition…’reuters’? 1,000s of marines? hahahaha. now who’s being the comedian? 22 chihuahua’s you mean, with not a clue between them. where did that french carrier go to? have they learned how to launch a missile yet? didn’t the uk say they were sending one too? did it ever leave the harbor? was it able to? lol…iran sure is sending a lot destructive ‘nothings’ at israel and us forces and bases. what powerful imaginations, huh? cope, baby cope.
wishful thinking and a large dose of conjecture, with a topping of bs you just pulled out of your ass.
iran is unified and western voices are non existent in iran. thank you shitrael. with jews, you lose!!!
that’s the thing with fireworks sometimes the don’t work
nice to the iran elite using iphones and social med so is isreal can track and trace then and there vehicles no doubles here
have any western leads ever served in combat without bodyguards
i dont understand the obsession with numbers of drones and missiles with hamas, hezbolah and iran.
they all fired missiles at isral and yet israel. but its important how much hit the targets. and im pretty sure if one one misslile would have hit an american ship in all those years by huthis or iran now they would have bragged about it.