US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays' as deployment stretches on
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The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

“I think it’s been about two or three times in the past six months we’ve allegedly been sunk, which we have not been,” Hill told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the carrier. “It is almost comical at this point. They’re attempting to maybe inspire themselves through misinformation, but it doesn’t work on us.”

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    5•5 months ago

    I’d say that, while literally true, “carries a single plane” is a real stretch when we’re talking about what we think of as aircraft carriers today.

    • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      The big class carried three.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine

      They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations.

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      It wasn’t an I-400 that bombed Oregon, but apparently Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, Japan’s abandoned last-ditch plan to hit with the US with some form of strategic bombing, dropping bubonic plague bombs on population centers in the US, would have used an I-400. I don’t know how effective that would have been – the US had taken preemptive measures to work up anti-biological-warfare stuff earlier in the war – but at least potentially, that’s a considerable amount of hitting power.