The U.S. aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, deployed in operations against Iran, is expected to temporarily pull into port after a fire on board, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, the 18th day of the war with Tehran.
The carrier, America’s newest and the world’s largest, is currently located in the Red Sea. It is expected to temporarily go to Souda Bay on the Greek island of Crete, the two officials said.
The warship has been deployed for nine months, including taking part in operations against Venezuela in the Caribbean prior to arriving in the Middle East. The length of the deployment has raised questions about morale of the sailors on board and the readiness of the warship.
Sooo…Iranian drone…or disgruntled sailors/smoking accident/old ship?
A lint fire. And honestly, I believe it - there’s been a pattern of maintenance issues and sloppiness causing problems this year
Plus she was supposed to be in port for scheduled maintenance ages ago, but then someone started moving carriers around to feed their ego. Deferred maintenance is never a good thing.
maybe the firing of competent leadership by hesgeth might have something to do with it
I’ll bet on poor morale, which led to an accident. You’d have to be out of your mind to want the ship you’re trapped on to catch fire.
I could imagine someone thinking a small fire might be safer than the ship carrying on to Hormuz.
Nobody is running a carrier through Hormuz and no one aboard would think they might be heading there, that’s not how any of this works. Escort/freedom of navigation work would be done by destroyers or smaller vessels.
How many layers of “nobody would be stupid enough to…” deep are we into this situation at this point?
Maybe the pipes to the shitter exploded
She was laid down in 2009, so not very old. The Nimitz class dates to the 70s.
