US Navy photo by Capt. Lee Apsley
- The US on Saturday dispatched an aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, to the Middle East.
- It will be the fourth US carrier sent to respond to ongoing crises in the Middle East since October.
- The change comes as the region braces for a potential attack on Israel by Iran and its proxies.
The US Navy is sending another aircraft carrier to the Middle East. It will be the fourth sent to respond to ongoing crises in the tumultuous region in the past 10 months. With this move, over a third of the carrier fleet will have been involved at one point or another.
The Pentagon on Saturday announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, which was recently in the Pacific, is during Tehran’s massive attack on Israel in April. It’s unclear what a potential retaliatory Iranian attack might involve, but experts say Iran and its proxies could modify that strike package as they continue to signal their intent to retaliate against Israel in the coming days.
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