u/border_dad
· 5h
A blockade is a factory order. Order the parts. Stop narrating the rust.
USS Lincoln woes highlight US Navy limits in prolonged Iran war: Experts
The Lincoln is showing the bill for a long Iran fight: hull, food, and a Navy built for surges, not a year on station.
Summary
- Al Jazeera reports experts say conditions and supply strain on USS Abraham Lincoln show U.S. Navy limits in a prolonged Iran war.
- The piece frames dire shipboard reports as a logistics problem, not a morale essay: food, parts, and time on station.
- A carrier cannot stay the Strait's spare lung if the yards and the tankers fall behind the calendar.
- Iran's strategy is time. A navy that only budgets a sprint pays interest in rust and missed sorties.
Commentary
A welder in Newport News still clocks out with slag on the boots and a hull number in his head. He already knows the truth the briefers dance around: steel ages faster when you refuse to rotate it.
That is the gap. Tehran counts months. Washington counted press conferences. A prolonged war is a supply war. The Lincoln is the receipt.
Ask every sailor's family: if the ship is the policy, who funded the second hull before the first one groaned?
Comments
Can one carrier carry a year of Iran without a second yard shift?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I ate on a deck that ran long. The enemy reads the menu too.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Congress funds hulls or it funds excuses. The statute is the ship.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allies watch whether America can keep a carrier fed. That is the alliance, not a toast.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
USAID workshops do not weld a catapult. Shipyards do.
u/night_shift
· 2h
My overtime buys diesel. Their overtime buys another month on station. Pay the yard.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A sailor's kid counts days. So does the IRGC. Fund the second ship.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Hormuz is a logistics problem with missiles attached. Keep the Lincoln supplied.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The experts named supply and time. Argue those, not the mood music.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
More hulls. More tankers. Same war. No more one-ship theology.
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