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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has successfully targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier using advanced domestically-produced drones, forcing the strike group into a rapid retreat near Iranian territorial waters.

A spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters confirmed the operation on Wednesday, stating that the carrier was intercepted approximately 340 kilometers from Iran’s maritime borders in the Sea of Oman.

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Following the impact, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying destroyers were observed fleeing the engagement zone at high speed.

“The carrier group has since retreated more than 1,000 kilometers away from the region,” the spokesperson noted, emphasizing that the US military presence failed to achieve its objective of intimidation.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I mean they’ve spent the last 60 years telling us these things are invincible

      Which, I guess they are when you fight countries with no long-range capabilities that you can bomb with impunity

      They really want people to think Iran is some backwater without any modern infrastructure or anything

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        Americans about to find out the reason they don’t have healthcare isn’t because their military is invincible, it’s because they got scammed by their Bourgeoise

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          You’d think that the fact that they haven’t “won” a war since they were fighting the same enemy as the Soviets would tell them their military isn’t as invincible as they pretend it is.

          • like >90% of US media, including media that has nothing to do with the military or national security, invariably has some inserted arc, context or dialogue scaffolding the concept that the US military is the greatest and most invincible fighting force ever imagined in the history of the galaxy.

            if you say something like “the US hasn’t faced anything approaching near peer rival in 80 years and at that point their allies were doing all the heavy lifting”, no matter how accurate or well you cite your analysis and defend that position, you might as well grow a second head that farts from its mouth.

            like you just told everyone at the 5 year old’s birthday party that theres no santa

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      I really want to see a burning carrier on the news. What about me? 🚢🔥📺😈😆