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US Sending Aircraft Carrier To Middle East As Region Braces For Iranian Retaliation

Handout photo dated April 12, 2022 of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), center, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), left, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) guided-missile destroyer JS Kong (DDG 173), right, JMSDF Murasame-class destroyer JS Inazuma (DD 105), back left, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) are underway in formation during a U.S.-Japan bilateral exercise in the Sea of Japan. The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week. On Friday August 2, 2024, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman, according to a statement from Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh. U.S. Navy photo by

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US Sending Aircraft Carrier To Middle East As Region Braces For Iranian Retaliation

Handout photo dated February 16, 2022 of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) are underway in formation with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Murasame-class destroyer JS Inazuma (DD 105) and the training vessel Hatakaze-class JS Hatakaze (TV 3520) during exercise Jungle Warfare 2022 (JWX 22) in the Philippine Sea. The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week. On Friday August 2, 2024, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman, according to a statement from Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh. U.S. Navy photo by Mas

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Osprey lands on JMSDF ship in anti-tsunami drill

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport plane is about to land on the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer "Ise" off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, during an anti-tsunami drill on Oct. 19, 2014.

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JMSDF ships enter Cuba for 400th anniv. of Japan mission

HAVANA, Cuba - The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Setoyuki (foreground) and Asagiri are seen docked at a port in Havana, the Cuban capital, on July 5, 2014. Three MSDF ships made port calls to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Japanese mission to Europe's visit to Cuba in 1614.

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JMSDF's transport ship enters Vietnam's Da Nang port

DA NANG, Vietnam - The "Kunisaki" transport ship of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force enters the Vietnamese port of Da Nang on June 6, 2014, with about 140 U.S. and Australian troops as well as some 150 JMSDF members on board for medical support and cultural exchanges.

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JMSDF's transport ship arrives at Vietnam's Da Nang port

DA NANG, Vietnam - The "Kunisaki" transport ship of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is anchored in the Vietnamese port of Da Nang on June 6, 2014, with about 140 U.S. and Australian troops as well as some 150 JMSDF members on board for medical support and cultural exchanges.

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JMSDF helicopter carrier Kaga

File photo taken in June 2019 shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter carrier Kaga anchored in Osaka Bay. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at JMSDF base

Photo taken March 18, 2018, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) reviewing an honor guard at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo