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15-11-2023, 10:09 PM
US completed a huge deployment of offensive forces around Iran and Hezbollah in an effort to deter them from widening the Israel-Hamas war to a second front in Lebanon, or even Syria and Iraq.
Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group was dispatched to the Middle East three weeks ago and stopped to train with the Gerald R. Ford strike group in the Mediterranean Sea, arrived in the Arabian Sea this week. It is now only about 300 kilometers from the Iranian coast.
The U.S.S. Eisenhower, which has scores of fighter jets, is being escorted by two missile destroyers, a missile cruiser and an advanced submarine, which together are armed with hundreds of cruise missiles capable of hitting targets in most of eastern and central Iran.
U.S.S. Ford, which has been operating offshore Cyprus since it arrived in the Mediterranean Sea a month ago, counts in its strike group several destroyers armed with Tomahawk missiles capable of hitting targets in Western Iran, Syria and Iraq.
A third naval strike group, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is stationed in Red Sea. Two weeks ago, to supplement the deployment of F-16, F-15 and A-10 fighters in Jordan, the Persian Gulf, two B-1B Lancer bombers arrived at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, near the Syrian border.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/secu...7dfd4c0000
Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group was dispatched to the Middle East three weeks ago and stopped to train with the Gerald R. Ford strike group in the Mediterranean Sea, arrived in the Arabian Sea this week. It is now only about 300 kilometers from the Iranian coast.
The U.S.S. Eisenhower, which has scores of fighter jets, is being escorted by two missile destroyers, a missile cruiser and an advanced submarine, which together are armed with hundreds of cruise missiles capable of hitting targets in most of eastern and central Iran.
U.S.S. Ford, which has been operating offshore Cyprus since it arrived in the Mediterranean Sea a month ago, counts in its strike group several destroyers armed with Tomahawk missiles capable of hitting targets in Western Iran, Syria and Iraq.
A third naval strike group, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is stationed in Red Sea. Two weeks ago, to supplement the deployment of F-16, F-15 and A-10 fighters in Jordan, the Persian Gulf, two B-1B Lancer bombers arrived at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, near the Syrian border.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/secu...7dfd4c0000
