The second round of peace talks between the US and Iran may be progressing as schedule but the US is still flexing its military muscles with reports stating that it is on track to have three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Middle East in the coming days.
While the USS Abraham Lincoln CSG, the first to arrive in the Middle Eastern waters, is in the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, supporting the blockade, the biggest carrier in the world, the USS Gerald R Ford, is reportedly in the Red Sea, after a month-long sojourn in the Mediterranean Sea. Ford, along with the destroyers USS Winston S. Churchill and USS Mahan.
The carrier, with embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 and more than 4,500 sailors and personnel, transited the Suez Canal and is now operating in the Red Sea, though it is unclear when the carrier, which was undergoing repair in Souda Bay, Greece, and Split, Croatia, crossed the Suez Canal, according to Stars and Stripes.
As for the third carrier, the USS George HW Bush, it is still near Madagascar and is sailing north to the Arabian Sea in the coming days.
Notably, the Bush departed Virginia on March 31 and, rather than travel east through the
