Originally Posted by
dogle
Seems that CVN-77 group, tasked to join in the operations, is taking the longer route from the East Coast -
https://news.usni.org/2026/04/13/car...lockade-begins
Hmm, maybe those "pesky Houthis" are seen to have some teeth left, and perhaps they may be coming due for extraction.
Or, alternatively not wanting to be transiting a narrow channel (Suez) where there is no manoeuvre room and the equivalent of dickers can be relaying sitreps to IRGC missile bases.......Suez is equivalent to a fixed location, very different to open sea (or even Red Sea for that matter)....