Not the Onion : The new British aircraft carrier named Queen Elizabeth, which was supposed to travel to the Middle East to participate in war operations against Yemen, broke down off the coast of England...

I guess Sunak is going to push for more tax cuts and cuts in social spendings to repair the floating junk they have on their hands.

#UK #Military #NotTheOnion #Military #AircraftCarrier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier

US preparing for a war? Deployments of the United States Military, over the past 5 days.

(I would like to note this is not information I gathered myself, but it's from a telegram channel I follow, the analysis is also not mine but the person who posted it /Farhad)

USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Eastern Mediterran region, consists of 8 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers, 2 Ticonderoga-class Cruisers

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (Scheduled to arrive in Naples, Italy, soon; 8 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers, 2 Ticonderoga-class Cruisers, already has left the Port of Norfolk.

6 Squadrons of F/A-18E (Single Seater) Super Hornets (144 Aircrafts total)

2 Squadrons of F/A-18F (Double Seater) Super Hornets (48 Aircrafts total)

16 B-1B Lancers to an RAF Airbase in the U.K

32 A-10A/B Warthogs to a US Airbase in the UAE (which the UAE officially denied)

Reallocation of 101st Airborne assets from the US and Europe, up to 10,000 personnel split between Syria and Jordan

High probability of U.S SOCOM Operatives on the ground in Israel already (reported by the media, if they are not in the ground, most likely attached to Naval assets)

Commenta from person who made the post:

"This is what I've gathered thus far based off Open Sourced info and the carrier groups. Each one's carrying 4 Super Hornet squadrons (3 E-variant or single seater Super Hornets & 1 F-variant or double seater Super Hornet squadron per carrier). Assuming 24 aircrafts per squadron, that puts each carrier at 96 Super Hornets or 192 in total"

Assuming a good chunk of the inventory remains, these two carrier strike grounds have more missiles that what the entire Black Sea fleet launched during the course of last year in Ukraine.

Each Arleigh Burke DDG fields:
• 96-cells for Missiles (Flight IIAs)
• 90-cells for Missiles (Flight Is)
• 8-cells Dedicated Anti-Ship (AShM) Launchers (Flight Is)

Between the 2 USN Carrier Groups there are:
• 4 Ticonderoga-class CGs (122-cell VLS)
• 8 Arleigh Burke-class Flight I Destroyers (90-cell VLS + 8 AShMs)
• 8 Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA Destroyers (96-cell VLS)

Excluding the aircrafts' and their capability to launch ordinance, the 4 CGs & 16 DDGs have a combined capability of 1,976 Vertical Launch System cells (+96 Harpoon AShMs on 10 of the vessels) for missiles.

Realistically, a portion of these are devoted to Enhanced Sea-Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) for air defense along with the Standard Missile (SM) series that are multi-use missiles, realistically if we see these as a land-attack, we can see an easily 50% of these cells devoted to things such as the naval Tomahawk Cruise Missile which have a range of at minimum, 900nmi based on the Block-VB variation.

In the event of all out war, the 2 American carrier groups will be able to quite literally reach as far as into #SaudiArabia and a little over a third into #Syria from the Eastern Mediterranean as well as denying just about anything #Egypt would try to throw over the air.

#AircraftCarrier #USNavy #Mediterranea #Lebanon #Iran #Israel #Gaza #Hamas

Latest development on Israel-Palestineconflicr :

• #US moves aircraft carrier group "closer to Israel" - a sign of support and a warning to those countries that want to intervene in the conflict, according to NBC News.
• The group includes the flagship aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), as well as the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and four destroyers - USS Nitze, USS Farragut, USS Truxtun and USS Delbert Black.
• The #AircraftCarrier carries 90 aircraft and combat helicopters, including the F-35C, a fifth-generation fighter-bomber.
• #Washington announces that #Biden has ordered additional aid to Israel, which is on its way.
• The Israeli National Security Council recommends that Israelis leave #Egypt as soon as possible and that those in #Israel should remain there.
• The death toll in Israel has exceeded 700 people. More than 2,150 were injured, 300 of them in serious condition, - N12 News.
• Per #UN reports, more than 70 thousand Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip have fled their homes since the escalation began.
• At least 7 Israeli soldiers were killed in a new friendly fire incident on the border with #Lebanon.
• New Hamas incursions were reported in #Zikim and #Kibbutz #Karmia, both a few kilometers from the Gaza border.
• Palestinian sources report the destruction of a residential tower in Rafah, on the border with #Egypt, as a result of an Israeli airstrike.
• Israel is trying to put the blame on it's worst failure on #Iran and #IRGC, many "analysts" and "experts" on western #media repeating the same accusations probably because of possible attacks by Israel against Iranian targets as "retaliation" and "justified" reaction.
• Israel's defense minister said, by the end of this war, 20000 Hamas fighters will be killed. Setting no time limit on this "war". #AlQassam #Hamas #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics

teetering...

#teetering #xwing #starwars #1942 #aircraftcarrier