US sent to the coast of Syria AUG led by aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, at the head of the U.S. Navy carrier group, entered the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, passing the Strait of Gibraltar, follows from the data of the AIS international vessel monitoring system.
The USS Harry Truman carrier group (AUG) includes a missile cruiser, several destroyers and a sixth Tomahawk cruise missile nuclear submarine fleet The United States Navy, whose area of responsibility is, among other things, the Mediterranean Sea. According to reports, the carrier with escort ships will be off the coast of Syria for some time with uncertain tasks, after which it will go to the Persian Gulf, where it will be replaced by the USS Abraham Lincoln, which, due to the unfavorable situation with the state of the US carrier fleet, is in the Middle East longer than planned term.
According to the plans of the U.S. Navy, the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier was supposed to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in early October, however, due to serious malfunctions in the power supply network, the transfer to combat duty was postponed.
It should be noted that for the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier, the Mediterranean can be considered almost the main place of deployment. The aircraft carrier, at the head of its AUG, repeatedly visited the Mediterranean Sea, was there and took part in Operation "Unshakable Determination" against terrorists from the Islamic State banned in Russia.
As previously reported by the US Navy command, amid the aggravation between the US and Iran, USS Abraham Lincoln at the head of the strike group, 19 of October this year first entered the Persian Gulf, passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Before that, he cruised for six months in the neighboring Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
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