READY TO STRIKE? USS Harry Truman strike group armed with cruise missiles being deployed in Med

[sabra]

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Source: The Sun UK


THE US President is widely expected to green-light revenge attacks on the President Bashar Assad regime in the coming days supported by Britain and France.


AN US aircraft carrier is on its way and a guided missile destroyer is reportedly lurking off the coast of Syria amid calls for revenge for Assad's poison gas attack.

It comes as Donald Trump renewed his vow to decide on his military response to the outrage which left scores dead “probably by the end of today".

...

Meanwhile USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier strike group was on its way to the Syrian coast armed with cruise missiles and an array of warplanes.

Yet it emerged today Russia has started jamming US military drones operating over Syria seriously affecting America's ability to strike targets.

Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6019299/uss-harry-s-truman-missiles-deployed-mediterranean-syria/

[sandensea]

1. ...supported by Britain and France.

Translation: They want their oil back (nationalized by Hafez Assad in the early '70s).

[hack89]

7. Britain and France are presently major players in Syrian oil production

they have multiple joint ventures in Syria.

They are making a ton of money so I doubt they "want their oil back".

[House of Roberts]

2. Forty Tomahawks all impacting in the same crater in sequence?

Like last time?

[Kaleva]

3. It's normal for a carrier strike group to be deployed in the Med

"About 6,500 sailors assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group will depart Norfolk on Wednesday for a regularly scheduled deployment to Europe and the Middle East, according to the Navy."

https://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/article_025f8a20-3c00-11e8-9f49-03d453807e92.html

This has been going on for decades. Such deployments are planned months and even years ahead of time.

[dmosh42]

4. Different Navy! I was in '60-66 and we were never to say why and where....

when we cruised the Med. Now the whole world knows why and when, and
how we're armed. Sorry shipmates for the shitty leadership!

[Mr.Bill]

5. It's difficult to hide a carrier task force these days

with the satellite images available.

Bottom line is we already probably have subs with cruise missiles in the area. We keep the location of those a secret.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. The Med was never a great hiding place ...

... not even for submarines.

But, I'd guess that any listing of the fleets armaments/munitions is mostly fiction. The sailors still know enough not to talk about it.

[Kaleva]

11. A carrier strike force armed with cruise missiles is pretty much standard

What do people think is in those vertical launching systems on the Burke class DDGs?

[Kaleva]

15. Here is a link to a website where the Navy tells the world where the strike groups are

https://news.usni.org/2018/04/09/usni-news-fleet-marine-tracker-april-9-2018

[B Stieg]

6. There's a lot of trembling concrete in Syria, right now! nt

[Bayard]

8. This doesn't sound like its going to end well

U.S. versus Russia. tRump not coming to heel as planned.

Everything Russia seems like its coming to a head.....

[Hulk]

9. Here we go again...

So you see the guy across the street visciously beating his wife.

Because you think time is of the essence, rather than just calling police, you decide you need to confront the guy yourself.

But before you go, you decide to call the guy's best friend (who you yourself are in debt to).

The guy's best friend calls the guy, and he runs out of the house before you get there.

And when you get to the guy's house, instead of checking on the wife, you just decide to kick over the guy's trash cans by the curb. To send a message.

And the next day you see the guy beating his wife again.

But it's okay. You don't need to do anything else.

Because you showed you were strong and decisive.

And that you sent a message.

[Mr.Bill]

12. And the guy has been beating his wife for thousands of years,

and will continue to do so for thousands more. In the grand scheme of things, you are just a little bump in the road.

[BadGimp]

13. Sphincter Factor now 9.90

and rising...

[Kaleva]

14. Why? This is a routine deployment.

[Sam McGee]

16. Maybe, maybe not

According to the latest location data, the USS Harry Truman arrived Norfolk on March 1 and remains there.
http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html



However, news reports say the Truman will depart on Wednesday, April 11, for a planned deployment - - -

NORFOLK -- About 6,500 sailors assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group will depart Norfolk on Wednesday for a regularly scheduled deployment to Europe and the Middle East, according to the Navy.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/04/10/harry-s-truman-carrier-strike-group-deploy-norfolk.html

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Bombing the rubble pile called Syria into submission!

By the time it's all over, nothing will be left standing except for oil wells and Assad's palace in Damascus.

.......

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Locking - The Sun is not a suitable source for LBN stories

being an unreliable Murdoch paper. You can repost in GD, however. Thanks.