(Gas) Numbers Go Up
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I am beginning to have some doubts regarding whether Jerusalem and Washington are on the same page with respect to war aims…
Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, the largest such facility in the world and which Tehran shares with Qatar, according to people familiar with the matter. The attack was designed to cut off an economic pipeline for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, some of the people said.
Iranian state media reported explosions in multiple sections of the field on Wednesday. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Majed Al Ansari, condemned the Israeli strikes in a post on X, calling the targeting of the field—an extension of Qatar’s North Field—a “dangerous and irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region.”
The Israeli military didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A U.S. official said the strike was an Israeli operation of which the U.S. was aware.
The U.S. Air Force is now reportedly dropping its newest bunker-buster bomb, the 5,000-pound class GBU-72/B, on targets in Iran. The bombs are said to have been used in strikes on hardened Iranian anti-ship cruise missile sites along the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz overnight.
There are also reports that this is the first time GBU-72/Bs have been used in combat, but it is not clear if this is the case.
And CVN-78 has had a rough deployment:
It took more than 30 hours for sailors to put out the fire aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford last week, sailors and military officials said, as the beleaguered ship continued its monthslong slog through President Trump’s military operations.
The fire started in the ship’s main laundry area last Thursday. By the time it was over, more than 600 sailors and crew members had lost their beds and have since been bunking down on floors and tables, officials said.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said two sailors received treatment for “non-life-threatening injuries.” People on the ship reported that dozens of service members suffered smoke inhalation.
And in the category of non-life-threatening, but still not ideal, many sailors have not been able to do laundry since the fire.