What the Reported Iranian Missile Barrage Against USS Abraham Lincoln May Reveal

Commentary Since the advent of the anti-ship cruise missile in the mid-1960s, there has been a cottage industry in predictions about the end of the aircraft carrier. That chorus began on Oct. 21, 1967, when two Egyptian Navy Soviet-made Komar fast-attack ships launched Styx anti-ship missiles, sinking the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat. It grew louder […]