What the Reported Iranian Missile Barrage Against USS Abraham Lincoln May Reveal (original) (raw)

What the Reported Iranian Missile Barrage Against USS Abraham Lincoln May Reveal

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Strait of Gibraltar, entering the Mediterranean Sea on April 13, 2019. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Clint Davis

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Since the advent of the anti-ship cruise missile in the mid-1960s, there has been a cottage industry in predictions about the end of the aircraft carrier.