September 15, 2019
Expert: Iran Can't Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier in a War (For Now)
But the future is unclear.
by Kyle Mizokami
Key Point: Iran is currently incapable of sinking a U.S. Navy carrier, but that is not an advantage the Pentagon can count on enjoying forever.
The United States and Iran have been on bad terms—occasionally spilling into open hostility—since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. One instrument of American policy and prestige in the Middle East region are the aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy. The Iranian government is well known to despise these offshore platforms of American power, and that leads us to this question: if the two sides came to blows, does Iran have the firepower to sink an American carrier?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/expert-iran-cant-sink-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-war-now-80776
