Alwaght- No US Navy aircraft carrier will be at sea not only in the West Asia but anywhere in the world during next week, Fox News reported.
According to American media outlet the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had returned to Norfolk, from a seven month mission in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea during which period it had attacked Iraq and Syria several times.
Two destroyers in the Ike’s strike group also saw combat. The USS Nitze and USS Mason were allegedly attacked in the Red Sea by Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement that launched cruise missiles.
The Eisenhower’s replacement carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, was delayed by more than six months in the shipyards and will not be able to replace the Ike until early next year, according to Navy officials.
The report quotes some unnamed US officials as saying that while there is no US aircraft carrier in the West Asia right now, there is a large deck US Navy amphibious assault ship with thousands of Marines on board as well as helicopters and some jets to respond to a crisis.
The absence of a deployed US Navy aircraft carrier, which US bluffs as a symbol of it naval power, is noteworthy. It is believed to be the first time since World War II that at least one US aircraft carrier has not been deployed.
