{"id":21820,"date":"2013-08-26T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:21:54","slug":"suddenly-of-greater-interest-to-the-media-where-are-the-carriers-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/suddenly-of-greater-interest-to-the-media-where-are-the-carriers-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly of greater interest to the media &#8211; where are the carriers now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-08-24\/distribution-us-french-and-uk-forces-near-syria\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero Hedge<\/em><\/a> pulled a quick summary of US, French, and British naval units in light of the rumours of some kind of attack on Syria:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A U.S. military source said on Friday the U.S. Navy was increasing its number of cruise missile-carrying destroyers in the Mediterranean to four from three by delaying the return to the United States of the <em>Arleigh Burke<\/em> class destroyer <em>USS Mahan<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft carrier <em>USS Harry S Truman<\/em>, by far the most powerful warship in the region, left the Mediterranean last weekend, passing through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.<\/li>\n<li>Defence experts say the carrier could still strike Syria from south of Suez. As well as the strike aircraft carried by the <em>Truman<\/em>, several of her escort ships are also capable of firing Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<li>Since earlier this year, the United States has also had F-16 jets in Jordan, where they remained after a major military exercise this year at the request of the Jordanian government. It also has a major air base at Incirlik in Turkey that could easily house multiple aircraft as part of a wider military campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carrier-locations-late-August-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Carrier locations - late August 2013\" width=\"800\" height=\"753\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carrier-locations-late-August-2013.jpg 800w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carrier-locations-late-August-2013-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carrier-locations-late-August-2013-480x451.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The French aircraft carrier <em>Charles de Gaulle<\/em> is still in or near Toulon, while the Royal Navy is said to have at least one <em>Trafalgar<\/em> or <em>Astute<\/em> class submarines in the Mediterranian. The RN no longer has in-service aircraft carriers, so any British air support would have to be from the RAF, possibly based in Cyprus (but subject to local government approval).<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/military\/two-destroyers-ordered-to-stay-in-mediterranean\" target=\"_blank\">This report<\/a> says that the <em>USS Ramage<\/em> is also being retained in the Mediterranean along with the <em>USS Mahan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 27 August<\/b>: It was just mentioned (no link) that the <em>Charles de Gaulle<\/em> has been ordered to leave port, bound for the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero Hedge pulled a quick summary of US, French, and British naval units in light of the rumours of some kind of attack on Syria: A U.S. military source said on Friday the U.S. Navy was increasing its number of cruise missile-carrying destroyers in the Mediterranean to four from three by delaying the return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,370,5,13],"tags":[617,30,364,694,249],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-middle-east","category-military","category-usa","tag-carriers","tag-navy","tag-submarine","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5FW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21863,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions\/21863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}