US sends second aircraft carrier group to Middle East – here are all the military assets in the region

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NY Post

The US ordered its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to remain in the Middle East and a second vessel is en route with Middle East tensions at a fever pitch following Iran’s attack on Israel, officials said.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the USS Abraham Lincoln will stay in the Middle East as the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier speeds along to the region, according to the Pentagon.

The ship will join America’s already large military arsenal in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, which helped defend Israel from Tehran’s latest attack against the Jewish state.

The Lincoln was rushed to the Middle East in August to relieve the USS Theodore Roosevelt amid the rising tensions between Israel and Iran’s terror proxies.

The Lincoln is America’s fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, among the largest warships in the world, with F-35 fighter jets on board, according to the US Navy.

The aircraft carrier is currently patrolling the Arabian Sea, just east of the Gulf of Aden where the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been attacking military and merchant ships allegedly tied to Israel.

 

The USS Harry S. Truman

The Truman, another Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, was originally set to replace the Lincoln before Austin ordered the presence of two warships in the region.

The vessel was previously in the Middle East during the early years of America’s war in Iraq and later oversaw 2,900 combat missions during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.