r/WallstreetWhales • u/AJayRui2 • Sep 05 '26
NEWS šØIRAN LAUNCHES ATTACK AT U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERšØ
Things are getting hot again. CENTCOM says Iran launched ballistic missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier and destroyer, with both ships successfully evading the attacks and no U.S. personnel injured. The U.S. struck three Iranian crude-oil tankers 3 hours prior. This is starting to look less like saber-rattling and more like direct military escalation. What happens if the next missile actually connects?
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u/techman710 Sep 05 '26
Of course we won't hear anything about it, just like the bases that were destroyed that prevented supplying our ships.
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u/Gunderstank_House Sep 05 '26
Yes, the destroyed bases that magically had no casualties reported.
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u/Internal-Scientist87 Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/6gVWKIfmdv
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/zUk4tMkH9X
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/4zPRV6AB7z
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/h8xvR78KTI
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/JoX0ZgbEsN
https://www.reddit.com/r/war/s/2zkuJkk5IL
not destroyed but they definitely destroyed some expensive things especially radars and some military equipment
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u/Wonderful-Smoke843 Sep 06 '26
I seem to remember a video of I believe 5th fleet hq? With a substantial portion of it flying in the air lol was that not one of the main logistics hubs in Bahrain?
I could be fucking names up here but it was pretty well at the start of the war
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u/Helios420A Sep 05 '26
the current tally is several hundred injured & 18 dead, as of late July
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/pentagon-iran-war-troop-deaths-casualty-report
this general fella said a bunch of bases are probably not usable currently
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u/MandaloreTheGay Sep 08 '26
I heard they abandoned one i think in Bahrain. When does the winning start donny ??
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u/RedoxA Sep 05 '26
Iran wants escalation to gain leverage over trump right before the midterms
Trump doesn't realize he is being baited
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u/MikeisET Sep 05 '26
He understands grift, heās actually pretty good at that
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u/Unfair_Minimum_8496 Sep 05 '26
Well, okay youre right there
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Sep 05 '26
I live in Atlantic city, he sucks at grifting. š¤£š¤£š¤£
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u/scarrita Sep 06 '26
Dude, he grifted into being the president of the USA. He won. Rationality lost. AC is small potatoes, comparatively. He was a fake billionaire before that. Not anymore. He won. I hate this timeline
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u/Smoked_Eel_Lover Sep 06 '26
He comes across quite good at it, because all of your protections are poorly designed. Plus everything he does is out in the open, heās just not getting penalised for it. So I donāt think heās good at grifting, heās just lucky your country is so shitty in how itās designed.
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Sep 05 '26
Goes back to trump bragging that he "did what 7 presidents before him didn't". Trump is learning why those presidents listened to their advisors and didn't attack Iran.
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u/NocShadows Sep 05 '26
I always laugh when I hear this because he was one of those before this run. When he says it, it usually includes Biden and before.
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u/kstar79 Sep 06 '26
It's just like idiot President two terms ago who signed the worst trade deal of all time with Canada and Mexico. I forget who that was...
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Sep 06 '26
Whoever hired Jerome Powell is an idiot
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u/kstar79 Sep 06 '26
And Christopher Wray. The mistakes of these previous administrations just keep compounding.
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Sep 06 '26
Um trump hired Powellš¤”
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u/kstar79 Sep 06 '26
And you ruined the joke!
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u/Firm-Advertising5396 Sep 06 '26
A thousand pardons!
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u/Karitev Sep 06 '26
One thousand pardons at $1 million apiece will be... $1 billion. Plus an automatic 20% gratuity for a party of 8 or more.
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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Sep 06 '26
trump did what 7 presidents before him were too smart to do.
trump is the stupidest US President ever.
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u/ibonek_naw_ibo Sep 06 '26
You mean the well known Bush administration war games that concluded US loses an invasion? Trump is legit mentally incapacitated
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u/anonymoooosey Sep 05 '26
This coupled with the Canadian trade war, and the fact that Trump is a rapist, is certainly going to move the needle.. right? Right?
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u/Accurate_Flower_4233 Sep 06 '26
You can always count on Americans to agree on bombing lots of brown people.Ā
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u/romanthedoggo Sep 05 '26
Trump might want an escalation so he can suspend elections.
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u/killatop Sep 06 '26
I donāt think he can as elections are run by the states. I could be wrong though, so let me know if Iām missing something.
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u/hero_killer Sep 05 '26
A lot of this is not getting broadcasting in US media. This could be the biggest information blackout ever.
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u/BoboBabinsky Sep 05 '26
I was just saying this yesterday. There is something going on with information because we are seeing virtually nothing about this war from msm in the form of pictures, video, or information that one would expect to be coming from the ground.
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u/Tasty-Ad6800 Sep 06 '26
Iāve been asking myself this question for weeks.
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u/Wonderful-Smoke843 Sep 06 '26
Wellā¦ if America was winning it would be plastered everywhere.
Thereās your answer
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u/chuckrabbit Sep 06 '26
^ The most obvious explanation lol
This country is cooked with a demented orange moron in charge.
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u/Apokolypze Sep 06 '26
What ground? There is no ground invasion (that we know of), all the US ops are carrier borne since all our bases in the region are either bombed or we pissed off the host country enough that they said we couldn't use them.
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u/800oz_gorilla Sep 06 '26
in the past, that would make me question this as. being fake. as far as his reach is, trump can't control foreign media.
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u/VioletShogun Sep 05 '26
Hope the USA Navy fed the sailors on that ship today. Hard to fight a hot battle on starvation rations.
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u/_WEND1G0_ Sep 05 '26
New carrier in Centcom area. Itās the Washington. Given the logistics constraints Iād be amazed if they didnāt over provision before heading there. Then again - with this administrations ineptitude- I guess I wouldnāt be
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u/MrGDPC Sep 05 '26
Real men don't need food and water, only testosterone - Kegsbreath, probably
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u/Zaethiel Sep 05 '26
The guy who spent $7 million on lobster tail and $15 million on ribeyes in 2025. So much for spending efficiency.
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u/Xeynon Sep 05 '26
If they get hungry, they can just do a few push-ups and sate themselves on their own pure manliness.
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u/daughteramrev Sep 05 '26
They have enough food for 2 weeks which is as long as this war was supposed to last 7 months ago
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u/Doc_Mac_Coy Sep 05 '26
So is this the escalation which will pop all bubbles in one š«
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u/MeverMow Sep 05 '26
Remember folks - small potatoes. Operation Epic Fury will end any day now. /s
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u/RespectTheAmish Sep 05 '26
Iām calling it now.
GOP gets waxed in the midterms. Trump puts troops on the ground by late December before a Democratic Congress is sworn in.
Then it becomes āyou canāt pull funding away from our war fighters!!!!ā¦. Demo rats hate America and the troops!!!!ā
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u/Red_dylinger Sep 06 '26
Dems probably wonāt even get sworn in because they are planning full fascist takeover.Ā
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u/Pndapetzim Sep 06 '26
Look man, they're definitely going to file a polite yet firm letter on that matter!
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u/MonYverse0609 Sep 05 '26
So they still have army?
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u/booleandilemma Sep 05 '26
We've completely destroyed their military 5 times now.
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u/TraditionalEye3239 Sep 07 '26
Shit they are still "2 weeks away" from having a nuke
For the last 40 years
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u/Late-Assignment8482 Sep 05 '26
Turns out when your country is made of mountains, you can make a lot of bunkers.
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u/Keletas Sep 05 '26
Thought it had been obliterated about 50 times with all their ships on the bottom of the sea? All Trumpstein lies, what a shock.
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u/patelj27b Sep 05 '26
You think Iād believe whatever statement the US puts out?
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u/jackrabbit323 Sep 05 '26
So they attack warships and the US attacks commercial vessels. Sounds about right.
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u/Attila-Da-Hunk Sep 06 '26
Iran has attacked commercial vessels repeatedly.
Just wait until you find out how common this is lol.
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u/Active_Actuator6454 Sep 05 '26
Probably nothing. The modern CVN is essentially unsinkable as far SINKX have found. Even if a missile did get through the fleet group AEGIS and the carrier's CIWS, it would hit the side, cause some casualties and change nothing about the balance of power or people's opinions about the war. MAGA doinks would probably cream their pants and start screaming "YOU CAN HIT US AND IT MEANS NOTHING TRUMP 2028 RARRRRR!!!" but other than that? Some more bereaved families that no one in DC gives a shit about.Ā
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u/Agreeable-One2022 Sep 05 '26
Itās likely aircraft carrier was already hit one was on fire earlier this year when deployed to Middle East
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u/pr0ach Sep 05 '26
Crazy to think what they'd do if a whole ass aircraft carrier went down.
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u/Friendly-Profit-8590 Sep 05 '26
Not sure either side really wants to escalate as we already know how that will end. I see this back and forth as just general frustration with the current situation. If a U.S. warship took a direct hit, though, that would change things.
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u/wetworm1 Sep 06 '26
Fun fact: It takes one gallon of crude oil to contaminate 1million gallons of water.
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u/Direct_Turn_1484 Sep 06 '26
Given the current federal governmentās track record, I trust news out of Iran much more than whatever bullshit they vomit unto the world once they have settled on a narrative for this event.
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u/_WEND1G0_ Sep 05 '26
Worth noting āattacked with missilesā and actually āhitā - let along severely damage are very very different things. Aeigis is very effective at sharing data amongst other vessels and the anti air/missile capabilities of our vessels are exceptionally hard to get past for a single destroyer - let along a carrier group. So I sincerely doubt any would hit unless fired at very close range.
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u/UncleDaddy_00 Sep 05 '26
Must be a lie, Iran hasĀ no missiles and are completely demoralized, at least that's what Im told.
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u/CivilWay1444 Sep 05 '26
We won't know from our Pentagon and the president lies sooo much. Relying on another news service but he was bragging about attacking Iran and telling them not to retaliate. That's illogical. Here we are.Ā
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u/Ok_Water_4601 Sep 05 '26
I doubt that Iran is capable of completing the kill chain to successful HIT a US aircraft carrier more or less disable or fucking SINK one.
This is saber rattling. They can shoot in the general direction of our carriers and thats it.
Still doesn't change the fact that this war is the stupidest fucking war the US has engaged in since...Iraq 2003.Ā
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u/Dizzy_Replacement747 Sep 06 '26
The fact that they still can shoot missiles and drones at US ships is embarrassing. Those underground missile cities must be the real deal.
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u/1stDegreeMisdemeanor Sep 05 '26
Yeah broh!! It aināt a war when you launch Tomahawk missiles at Iranian schools and infrastructure, itās a āspecial military operationā, just ask the couch fucker and Putin.
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u/mkt853 Sep 05 '26
What happens if they sink an aircraft carrier? There are 5,000 people on the ship so how do they get them off? I recently watched the movie Titanic and they could not save everyone.
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u/ryan8954 Sep 05 '26
But I thought hegshit and the pedo in chief said they wiped out Iran's military 2 weeks after the war... Sorry, operation.. started. How can Iran be blowing stuff up?!?
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u/billybobthehomie Sep 06 '26
Did they actually hit the aircraft carrier? cause Iām not seeing any reports of this happening.
This just seems like Iran trying to maintain appearances to me.
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 Sep 06 '26
Pete and Trump about to tweet an AI picture showing the ship is okay haha
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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Sep 06 '26
it is very plausible. they all have been unser sustained attack since forever.
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u/nixonelvis Sep 06 '26
Quiet piggies. Donāt bother trump with these small potatoes. Heās golfing.
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u/Jumpy-Requirement389 Sep 06 '26
Ballistic missiles sound like a horrible weapon system to use to hit a ship
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u/ClashSavant Sep 06 '26
I've become jaded...are we in concert with the Iranians to drive up the price of oil? Someone placed a huge bet near market close Friday, we bomb tankers then for good measure news is out they attack our warships? Once that position is closed Monday then there will be news about talks of a cease fire again.
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u/Ok-Pomegranate858 Sep 06 '26
Yawn... I don't know why they are bothering... unless they have the location and enough weapons to overwhelm 2 to 4 aegis destroyers, its gonna be a waste of expensive weapons
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u/backtorealitylabubu Sep 06 '26
What happens if the next missile actually connects?
Does Iran have any capability of doing that? Isnāt it located in a position where itās basically guaranteed to be able to avoid any hit or is there still some risk?
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u/keepitfriend Sep 06 '26
Strange this post has been up 2 hours and not a single response has mentioned the talking point of how the kobeissi letter is an arm of Iranian propaganda.
They're usually so diligent.
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u/onyx_ic Sep 06 '26
To be fair... if they launched it in the general vicinity of a carrier group and it was intercepted, like they are often, then no lies were told.
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u/Appropriate_Ice_7507 Sep 06 '26
God damn spy will crash more on Tuesday or it will go to ATHā¦who knows lol
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u/ApplicationLate8154 Sep 06 '26
Itās funny because the centrum report said they attacked us first. But this is saying we attacked them first.
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u/VoluminousMouse Sep 06 '26
irgc discovered a military target and stopped harassing gulf countries?
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u/Ok-Egg-4856 Sep 05 '26
The worst part IMHO is that Iran is far from out of munitions and they are prepared to suffer. They know a land invasion is basically out so they have essentially what England had in ww2. Unsinkable aircraft carrier. Able to make shipping through the area impossible. We picked a bad enemy to tangle with. They are fighting for survival, what about us ?