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US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet disables oil tanker headed for Iranian port in Gulf of Oman

A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet operating from aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into an oil tanker’s engineering and steering spaces, disabling the vessel in the Gulf of Oman. The strike targets a ship reportedly headed to an Iranian port as part of U.S. maritime pressure.

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