US Sends Aircraft Carrier Into The Strait Of ... - Business Insider

Image: wikipedia commons USS John C. Stennis

Iran has announced it located a U.S. aircraft carrier moving into the Strait of Hormuz during Iranian wargame exercises.

The AFP reports Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, spokesman for the exercises, says the carrier was spotted by an Iranian reconnaissance plane that took photos and video.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Fifth Fleet confirmed the carrier is the USS John C. Stennis, a nearly 1,100 foot nuclear powered craft with unlimited range and 3 million gallons of onboard fuel for its

Image: wikipedia commons USS Mobile Bay

aircraft.

In addition to its planes and the ships that sail in the group, the Stennis is armed with?NATO?RIM-7 Sea Sparrow?and?Rolling Air Missile?(RAM)?surface-to-air missile?systems, the?Phalanx?Close-in Weapons System?for?cruise missile?defense, and the?AN/SLQ-32?Electronic Warfare?System.

U.S. officials said Wednesday that the Stennis and the guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay slipped into the strait Tuesday after a stop at Dubai's Jebel Ali port.

The USS Mobile bay is a 570 foot Ticonderoga class cruiser that carries the?Tomahawk Land Attack Missile,?two?Seahawk?LAMPS?multi-purpose helicopters, and is used for?anti-submarine warfare, anti-air, and anti-surface warfare.?

The Associated Press reports Iran is playing up the sighting of the carrier and boasting of the strength of its navy in the region.

Iranian naval chief?Adm. Habibollah Sayyari says Iran has "control over the moves by foreign forces" and that the?"foreign fleet will be warned by Iranian forces if it enters the area of the drill."

Iranian state TV showed the supposed video but details of the carrier couldn't be made out because it was shot from so far away.

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-sends-an-aircraft-carrier-into-the-strait-of-hormuz-2011-12

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