US pushes new strike group into region after aircraft carrier flees Yemen’s firepower

The United States has sent a new aircraft carrier strike group into the Red Sea after pulling the US Navy’s USS Abraham Lincoln out of the waters following its coming under sustained retaliatory missile and drone attacks by Yemeni naval units.

According to the US Central Command (CENTCOM), the strike group consists of the flagship Nimitz-class carrier USS Harry S. Truman, Carrier Air Wing 1, an aircraft carrier air wing with nine aviation squadrons, a destroyer squadron, guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), and two Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers.

The development came after USS Abraham Lincoln departed the Red Sea a week following Yemeni naval units’ carrying out two major military operations against it.

Previously, US aircraft carriers Eisenhower and Roosevelt have also been forced to retreat from the Red Sea amid Yemeni strikes.

The operations have been meant as a response to American and British attacks on the country that have been seeking to stop the Yemeni Armed Forces from conducting anti-Israeli strikes.

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The hundreds-strong strikes began after October 7, 2023, when the Israeli regime began taking the Gaza Strip under a US-backed genocidal war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 45,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

The operations have seen the Yemeni forces targeting strategic and sensitive targets across the occupied Palestinian territories as well as Israeli ships and the vessels heading towards the territories.

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The strikes have mounted enormous pressure on the Israeli regime by forcing the vessels trying to ship military hardware and other commodities to the territories to take the longer route around Africa.

The operations have, among other things, effectively shut down the regime’s vital port of Eilat in the southernmost tip of the occupied territories.

Commenting on Harry S. Truman’s deployment, Commander of the UٍS Fifth Fleet, Admiral Daryl Caudle alleged that the US would try turn the Red Sea into its sphere of control.

He, however, acknowledged that the US Navy was currently not in an ideal position, when it came to modernizing ships and completing necessary maintenance on time, despite the pressure that Washington was facing from the direction of Yemen.

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