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Illustrative: In this photo from the US Navy provided on November 19, 2019, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Pearson/U.S. Navy via AP)
WASHINGTON A US vessel fired warning shots at more than a dozen Iranian fast attack boats which buzzed close to a US Navy submarine and escort ships in the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the Pentagon said.
In the second such incident in two weeks, 13 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy boats approached the seven US vessels at high speeds, closing within 150 yards (140 meters) before one of the US vessels fired 30 shots in two volleys, until they moved away, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
U.S. aircraft carriers have been hanging around the Persian Gulf.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps Iran can also use the images it took of the USS
Nimitz to create a better faux version of the carrier for the Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRG-N) to use as a target. While the Iranians have already built a simulated American carrier on a target barge it was far from accurate.
Earlier this month the U.S. Navy sent the USS
Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG 11) to the Persian Gulf as a demonstration of solidarity with allies and partners in the region, freedom of navigation, and readiness to launch war, should the latter be necessary. The USS