Illustrative image. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael B. Zingaro/Released)
The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier is sailing around the African continent and is set to join a growing naval force in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, USNI News reported on April 13.
According to the news service, the carrier and its strike group – which includes the guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook, USS Mason and USS Ross – are currently operating off the coast of Namibia.
The Carrier Air Wing Seven is embarked aboard the Bush with around 80 warplanes, including F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets, EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets and E-2C Hawkeye tactical airborne early warning aircraft.
The Bush did not sail through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea, a typical transit for East Coast-based carriers headed to the Middle East. The carrier and its strike group are instead sailing around Africa, two defense officials told USNI News.
“The path around Africa allows the carrier and its escorts to avoid transiting the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb, which were both hubs of activity for the Houthis in their drone and missile attacks on U.S. and commercial shipping in 2024 and 2025,” the service said in its report.
The Bush transit around Africa comes amid a temporary ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran that is set to end in around a week.
Following a failed round of talks in Pakistan, the U.S. initiates a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on orders from President Donald Trump.
In the Arabian Sea, the Bush will be joining the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group, in addition to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked on the aircraft-carrying USS Tripoli and two other amphibious assault ships.
A second MEU, the 11th, is also sailing towards the Arabian Sea, aboard three more amphibious assault ships, including the aircraft-carrying USS Boxer.
This naval build up shows that the U.S. is preparing not just to resume operations against Iran, but also to do so on a much larger scale than before.
Several recent reports indicate that the U.S. and Iran will be holding a second round of talks in Pakistan before the end of the ceasefire. Unless a major breakthrough is achieved, the war will likely resume, very possibly with American boosts on the soil of the Islamic Republic.
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usa rules the oceans…russia can’t even control the black sea..heheheh
i want nato to kick russia out of crimea. what the russians did to armenia, iran, and venezuela is being punished by the dismemberment of the country. russia must suffer such a catastrophe that all fleed alawites will be forcibly mobilized into the russian army to certain death. without any chance of victory, just to postpone the complete destruction of moscow for a few days. the border between russia and nato must be on the urals.you don’t know that kurdistan should be part of israel,
total idiot boit nato at work.
they are going all around africa, cape of greta hope. in hope not to be bottomed by yemenis. hhehehe.
your daughter “goes all around africa” getting plowed by black apes!
heheheh
that is your son, fedor.
you are not sure if they “rules” the oceans by pretend to block them, and take a cruising around the world, for to avoid hostile territory 😂 free the seven seas from the vermin, sink “us” ships wherever they are.
nice friends “us” have, if you did not know what nazis are, you should get informed by now.
if the us did it’d have a bigger navy then it currently has.
without the united states and europe to parasite off with your fake holi hoax professional victimhood you kike demons are finished and you know it. its time we all as a collective stop doing the jews bidding and end all funding for israel. oppose and fight all zionist penetrated politicians were ever we find them in the streets. the only ones who still keep you kikes in control of the police and army are these pathetic evangelical boomers and that will soon end trust me
wahhabis too.
if russia and the alawites had not betrayed syria, israel would never in this world dare to attack iran. that’s why i want latakia and tartus to turn into an uninhabited desert in which there will no longer be a single alawite baby, woman, or old man. i want a nato attack on russia and for putler to be removed and replaced with someone who will force the alawites into the trenches. that russia will have forced mobilization and people with combat experience will have priority.
i want to swallow exotic russian jizz but they all say they no like ugly transgender americunts
another friend of the nazis in “us”, which wants everyone, except faked ethnicitys, to die.
nice try shlomo i have deep respect for the alwates who fought off the jews for many decades. your days are numered all of europe and and russia and the united states will soon be freed from you demonic jewish demons. syria will be freed from jewlani one day and jewlani will get the treatment he deserves for allthe c rimes he commited. his head will roll the day the people of syria get their way with him
iran needs to get sea-going capacity, this and nukes
“nukes” are probably faked, and anyhow only good for to establish free mass murder, until the opposite are proven.
it’s taco tuesday.
the bush carrier afraid of getting bush whacked by ansar allah.
any conscientious objectors who do not want to take part in war crimes and be complicit with illegal wars of aggression should jump ship. it is only about 55 feet from the flat top to the water line. it is highly survivable and you will also save your eternal soul.
yeah man is nothing. i used to jump from la quebrada in acapulco and that’s only 135 feet.
“survival possibility: yes, but it is dangerous and requires expertise. risks: without proper technique, a 135-foot impact is likely to cause severe injury or death, as the water acts like concrete upon impact.” in case some sailor believe in your “nothing”. 135 feet = 41,148 meters. a normal jump tower are 10 meters.
its better to never join a organization, where they tells you who your enemies are. war for to hide peoples sex life, and such. 55 feet are the height from where they jump into a pool full of water, but they do not have to swim in a ocean full of sharks ?!
russian cruiser aurora seems to be a better concept.
americunt pussies
it’s going to be a long round trip for these vessels and their crew. the carriers with their aircraft should arrive in time to sample the delights of iranian portable air defences. it’s a bit early for thanksgivings but there is going to be a turkey shoot anyway.
someone should do the same as the west. put seadrones on civilian ships to attack foreign ships as happened in the black sea all the time and once or twice even in the mediteranian.
looks like the us is repeating the russian long voyage in 1904, wonder if the us will end up in a battle of tsushima mk 2.
according to professor jiang, zirkon and kinzhal missiles are delivered to iran. finally we can get to see some action ! in the mean time, the 5000 headed coffin take the slow path to their funeral 😂 “måste vägen till curaçao gynga så?”