Searching “uss abraham lincoln hit” indicates Iran’s been claiming for weeks to have hit the Lincoln. And it’s been thoroughly denied by US command. So either the US government is blatantly lying about a carrier being hit, or the Iranian state media is lying for propaganda purposes. Personally, I’m inclined to believe the US gov here. If a carrier is reduced to a smoldering wreck, you’re just not going to be able to hide that for very long. There would be thousands of witnesses, from both the carrier and its escorts. And eventually someone’s going to notice that no one is phoning home to their relatives anymore from the Lincoln. Even if the ship was already under a communications blackout, eventually there will come a time where the ship and crew would have ended their deployment. At most you could hide the destroyed carrier for a few months. No. There is just no practical way to hide a loss that big.
In fact, they wouldn’t even try. They would be shouting about it from the rooftops. Every politician who opposed war funding would be accused of betraying the dead crew of the Lincoln. There’s just no practical way to hide a loss that large, so you might as well lean into it for propaganda.
Being hit =/= shipwreck. From what I’ve heard, it got hit with something like Shaheed drone. So it did some damage, yes, but not “instasink” damage. Just enough to spook the crew into relocation
Aircraft carriers have dropped planes into the Red Sea off of evasive actions alone, I don’t think this is a wild claim. The wild claims and walkbacks are coming from the US government, which is denying things we can see from satellite. I’m sure that’s all just Chinese AI to you.
Searching “uss abraham lincoln hit” indicates Iran’s been claiming for weeks to have hit the Lincoln. And it’s been thoroughly denied by US command. So either the US government is blatantly lying about a carrier being hit, or the Iranian state media is lying for propaganda purposes. Personally, I’m inclined to believe the US gov here. If a carrier is reduced to a smoldering wreck, you’re just not going to be able to hide that for very long. There would be thousands of witnesses, from both the carrier and its escorts. And eventually someone’s going to notice that no one is phoning home to their relatives anymore from the Lincoln. Even if the ship was already under a communications blackout, eventually there will come a time where the ship and crew would have ended their deployment. At most you could hide the destroyed carrier for a few months. No. There is just no practical way to hide a loss that big.
In fact, they wouldn’t even try. They would be shouting about it from the rooftops. Every politician who opposed war funding would be accused of betraying the dead crew of the Lincoln. There’s just no practical way to hide a loss that large, so you might as well lean into it for propaganda.
Being hit =/= shipwreck. From what I’ve heard, it got hit with something like Shaheed drone. So it did some damage, yes, but not “instasink” damage. Just enough to spook the crew into relocation
Aircraft carriers have dropped planes into the Red Sea off of evasive actions alone, I don’t think this is a wild claim. The wild claims and walkbacks are coming from the US government, which is denying things we can see from satellite. I’m sure that’s all just Chinese AI to you.