U.S. Sends Third Aircraft Carrier to Iran then THIS Happened

The United States just surged a third nuclear supercarrier into the fight against Iran. We're talking the USS George H.W. Bush. It's steaming across the Atlantic, ready to join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea and the USS Gerald R. Ford, likely in the Red Sea. This triple carrier punch, one of the biggest concentrations of American naval airpower in modern times combined with the massive amount hundreds of Air Force fighter jets and bombers in the region

means overwhelming strike capacity raining down on Iran missile sites command bunkers and what's left of their Navy at this point. We've already sunk over 30 Iranian warships locked down the Straits of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, and hit, as of today, more than 3,000 targets. And that's since February 28th. This is American resolve and tech dominance on full display. The United States' carriers are floating fortresses delivering precision justice.

Stick around as we break down these carriers, the air wings that are on them and that are crushing it right now as we speak combined with Air Force Firepower and we'll do a realistic chain reaction scenario on what Iran is likely going to do from here Now that this third carrier is on the way to deal a decisive blow to Iran as if there weren't enough aircraft already in the region, tactical aviation from the Air Force, F-15Es, F-16s,

F-22s and F-35s, now combined with another scalpel. So when I think of the carrier, each one of these carriers is very nimble. Their force projection is very nimble. They can go to certain areas where maybe there can't be a base nearby, but no worries the three carriers now can set up a base pretty much

wherever they want, pinching Iran extremely hard and that's what's got Iran basically panicking right now. And here's some of the breaking news that's being said from Iran. So get this, Iran's president apologizes for strikes on neighbors as missiles and drones are still pounding cities in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE. This dude's basically like, oh yeah, so sorry about that.

Yeah, we didn't really mean it. Meanwhile, next door, boom, a drone is exploding. I mean, this is the level of gaslighting that Iran is known for, and they're now doing it because They're feeling a little bit desperate at this point. So they think if they apologize to the Gulf neighbors They're like well, it didn't work to just bomb your cities with our ballistic missiles and our drone

So now we're going to see if you'll come to our side and help align with us against United States Sorry about those 50 drones that hit your neighborhoods. That was totally a mistake. But Iran goes on to say that they're going to halt strikes on neighbors unless attacks are coming from there. So we'll see. That's coming directly from President Pazechski and basically who's probably in charge of the country right now. The command and control is in complete tatters and completely frayed, but at this point,

he's kind of speaking for the propaganda arm of Iran. President Trump has said that Iran will be hit very hard today, so even prior to this third carrier getting there, it looks like lots of more operations taking place today, as a lot of the tactical aviation arrives in theater, and the US bomber force is doing work.

And then massive explosions and fires rocks Tehran overnight targeting Mehrabad Airport and regime sites. Now specifically focused on regime sites itself. US is also downplaying reports of Russia sharing real-time intel with Iran on US assets. The Pentagon dismissed concerns over Russian satellite imagery aiding Iran targeting, but it adds proxy escalation risks

as the conflict broadens. And President Trump also rejected all negotiations and said unconditional surrender is the only way forward. And this is happening while the IRGC and the Intel Service of Iran is threatening their own people.

They're basically saying, if you're caught out in the streets, you will be killed. And they're specifically very paranoid right now thinking that their CIA and Mossad that's integrated into their own population.

So these IRGC members probably aren't sleeping very well at night, as well as the intelligence services in Iran, obviously right now in full scramble mode, basically doing anything they can to intimidate and threaten their people, because their worst nightmare is their people actually are empowered

and come out in the streets and maybe at this point are armed or there's some factions that are armed that are actually able to take on the IRGC. So kind of the worst nightmare of the regime at this point. So welcome to the Max Afterburner channel everybody. It's March 7th and Operation Epic Fury is in full swing, entering its second week with no breaks at this point.

The US Navy has now deployed this third carrier to the region, it's on the way, and they are there to hammer Iranian targets and degrade their missile production and defenses. Phase two is basically being entered now, the missile production sites are being targeted and we haven't seen this before.

For the last week or so the US military has been targeting ballistic missile launchers and the actual ballistic missiles themselves but now the gloves are coming off for these production sites as well so basically the Amazon warehouses of the ballistic missiles of Iran are now being targeted. The USS Abraham Lincoln looks to be holding position somewhere in the Arabian Sea maybe near the Gulf of Oman and they are the primary strike platform. The reason why they're the primary strike platform

is because they have the F-35. Yeah don't worry about that little guy the F-35 the guy that she told you not to worry about. That is the primary strike aircraft, even still with Iran, because you don't know if there's maybe a few detached surface-to-air missiles. Even though it looks like complete air supremacy, actually yesterday, the Israeli Defense Forces

released a video of an F-16 flying into Iran. It looks like complete air supremacy because this pilot's basically talking, reading a script as they fly through. He's basically showing how the US and Israel own the airspace of Iran at this point.

And a lot of that is thanks to the USS Gerald R. Ford, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the massive amount of Air Force firepower in the region. Having carriers is great, but you need metal. You need the ability for these jets to carry as much as possible,

and that's gonna be your F-15Es, that's gonna be your F-35s from the Air Force as well. So the USS Gerald R. Ford, combined with the Abraham Lincoln, with the Abraham Lincoln kind of being the big brother of the two.

They're the primary strike platform because of that F-35 capability. But the USS Gerald R. Ford looks to have just transitioned the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, adding massive sortie rates with advanced systems. And now USS George Bush, fresh off pre-deployment training, is en route from the Atlantic towards the Eastern Med

or straight into the fight at this point. The setup boosts the ability of the US to rotate in assets and keep these fighter jet waves fresh as 3,000 plus targets have been hit so far in the war and likely that number will double or triple here in the next week or so. This will keep constant pressure on the regime as we've seen the regime is now showing a fractured weakness of of uh yeah

guys we want to negotiate sorry neighbors sorry that we've been shooting ballistic missiles at you it was a total accident so that is fracture within the actual regime itself and it's showing that the regime knows that the end is in sight. At this point the goal is to overwhelm Iran's integrated air defense systems even more that are detached because likely the C2, the way that these talk to each other

is completely vaporized, but there could be a one-off, a detached system that is basically gonna fight to the very end and die on that hill, so you gotta watch out for that. So having aircraft airborne that can sniff out any of these detached SAMs is huge right now.

And the power projection from the USS Ford and the USS Bush are based on fourth generation fighters. You have to make sure the IADs is taken down because those F-18s aren't stealthy. They stand out like a you know what in sweatpants to a surface to air radar.

So you have to be very careful and make sure that you still have stealth assets in the area. But once that stealth has been established, which it has at this point, seeing that Israeli F-16 fly in and just not really worried about getting shot at at all, means now you can just pile on the fourth generation

fighters like from all these different carriers that have double air wings of F-18s. I mean, F-18Fs, which are the two-seat F-18, F-18E, which is the air dominance F-18, who's just begging for Iran to launch more jets. Like we saw Israel strike down a Yak-130 with an F-35 in a historic moment.

Now these fourth generation fighter pilots are like, oh, can we please, Iran, please launch some F-14s, that would be amazing. And then you have to continuously pound IRGC locations. And the Navy seems to be gone at this point with over 30 ships vaporized.

So likely the Straits of Hormuz are in better shape today than they've been since the beginning of the war. And now what these power projection forces can do specifically in my opinion, now that the Straits of Hormuz could be still threatened by fast attack boats from Iran,

because that's their main go-to, these little fast attack boats. They basically come towards a carrier and then they turn into an exploding cantaloupe, at least that's their goal, to basically confuse targeting solutions.

So now that you have that as an issue, having that third carrier strike group there will allow you to escort commercial shipping through, protect commercial shipping from drones that can launch from these different naval assets. So now you have the ability of these two different carriers

to be pinching Iran and then also have one or maybe even two at times that are primarily focused on the Straits of Hormuz and commercial shipping and keeping energy flowing and that'll help bring the gas prices down. So to me, it's like this third super carrier is is rolling over there we might as well call it Chevron

at this point because it's gonna make sure that the Straits of Hormuz stay open and keep energy flowing. So once that gets there I think that'll be a big sign for these commercial shippers that okay they're protected, they've got overwatch from the drones that are launching off of these carriers, advanced drones that can be doing reconnaissance to make sure and be on the lookout to see if the Iranian fast attack boats,

anything that's left, I mean, the Navy's in tatters, but there's gonna be a few crazies, right? There's always a few crazies. You know, if we look back at dating life, I mean, sorry, if we look back at the Iranian situation it's clear that they're gonna have a few crazies in the IRGC navy that are going to get in these fast attack boats and go to the very end. I mean think about the sailors

from Iran that decided to get on that ship and steam their way towards the Straits of Hormuz during a hot war. Again not a lot going on upstairs at this point the IRGC and the IRGC navy they're the reason why they put do not eat on those little silica packets. Like not the smartest people here. So they could blast off their fast attack boats and need to be just kind of put back in their place by the US Navy.

So I think this third carrier is a huge move to protect the Straits of Hormuz and we've seen gas prices spike obviously. You know, when you're projecting power halfway around the world in the place that a fifth of the world's oil flows through, there's going to be a few disruptions in price. But what I think will happen after this third carrier gets there, that waterway will be completely secured and there'll be no doubt in any of these oil tankers mines or commercial shipping that they are protected and they're going to have protection from below as well. They've now got the opportunity to have submarines there and then the underwater sea leech from Lockheed Martin

will be likely a huge part of what's brought into the region as well to secure that key waterway. And that sea leech can go down to the bottom of the ocean, it can just sit there and wait, and then it can be activated and then pop up to the surface and launch drones.

Highly capable system, likely gonna see that thing in action here in the next few days, maybe rolling in with this third carrier strike group or who knows maybe already in the region. But Iran is still lashing out with their drones and missiles but their navy's been gutted, no operational vessels left in any of those critical zones besides maybe some spotty fast attack craft, smaller ones that are in detached units. They've hit back at Gulf shipping

and proxies like Hezbollah are active in Lebanon, but overall the ballistic missile launches are way down thanks to the U.S.'s strikes in the region. They're said to be down 93 percent and Iranian President Pazeshgian rejected that unconditional surrender and said that it is a dream that the U.S. will take to their grave. So yeah this guy's not exactly showing that he's slowing down at all. The regime's command structure is taking massive hits and this is the US methodically dismantling

a determined, Iran is very determined and they're tough, but they're an outmatched foe. They're tough because they've basically been mafia assassins for the last 47 years. I mean if you have an assassin who's been operating with impunity for 47 years you're gonna have a little hubris and you're probably not gonna want to come to the table to free the people that you've been taking advantage of for over four decades at this point.

But now the US has three supercarriers stacked in theater here soon within the next couple days that's an insane amount of firepower for sustained operations against one country. Since late February, the U.S. has taken out 3,000-plus targets, missile factories, air defense sites, and leadership bunkers. You name it, it's been struck, and the entire Navy of Iran has been vaporized. American excellence is going to be delivered by the USS Abraham Lincoln, the USS Ford, and now the USS George Bush.

And again, the Abraham Lincoln F-35C Lightning II fighters, 10 to 20 of them per squadron, likely two squadrons on that boat, deep penetration strikes, staying hidden while dropping precision munitions on hardened targets.

And you pair that up with 40 to 50 F-18Es and Fs for multi-role muscle, air superiority, and heavy strikes, as well as tanking. There are F-18s that can tank and refuel, the other F-18s, the EA-18G Growlers, that can be constantly jamming radars now,

E-2D Hawkeyes spotting threats from miles out. Again, about 90 birds on each one of these carriers, stealth first on the USS Abraham Lincoln, and then volume from the USS Gerald R. Ford, and volume from now, the Bush, rolling into the region as well.

The US is in control of the sea and the air, and the coordinated hammer of these three carriers is likely gonna create the decisive blow over the next couple weeks that pushes Iran to the table to realize the gig is up. Here's a realistic what-if situation though if Iran feels even more cornered

at this point what they can do is just launch maybe some drones they've been holding back. If they can try to cause chaos in the Straits of Hormuz they think that is a pressure point for the US and if you've seen now Iran apologizing to their neighbors it shows they're realizing their initial tactics didn't work. So, now they're like, what can we actually do?

Well, let's see if we can try to get these neighbors on our side. At this point, there's a snowball's chance at hell of that happening after Iran has literally launched dozens of ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones at their neighbors at this point. You pour on the afterburner as the enemy tries to pull it back. That's what the US is doing right now,

hammering thousands of targets, leadership, and establishing military air supremacy in a region that is massive, that shows that the US has the upper hand and we're only in week one. What do you guys think?

What do you think we see from here? Full capitulation or a bigger proxy mess and Iran doubling down and potentially even now more strikes even after this third supercarrier arrives. Let me know what you think in the comments below go and follow me on x follow me on instagram i'm posting there pretty much every day if you want to see me do a live pretty much every day click the link in the description and join the max ready room i respond with a priority to the members of the Max Ready Room during

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