In the midst of doubts, the US Navy aircraft carrier CVN69 Eisenhower left the Red Sea, thus ending an eight-month combat deployment mission, and also representing the fruitless end of the so-called "Prosperity Guardian" Red Sea escort mission. The USS Eisenhower has been deployed since October, after the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier CVN 78 Ford flew a mission in the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to establish a deterrent against Russia. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the U.S. Navy has regularly used aircraft carriers to combat cruises in the Mediterranean, which is a strategy for the United States to block the import and export of the Black Sea, and it is also through the imminent deployment of aircraft carriers to achieve the purpose of putting pressure on Russia.
USS Ford is a cutting-edge aircraft carrier platform of the U.S. Navy, with dual-band phased array radar, electromagnetic ejection blocking system, all-electric propulsion system and centralized control loss system. At present, the 11 aircraft carriers of the US Navy are composed of 1 Ford-class and 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, so the combat deployment of the Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Ford in the Mediterranean Sea has aroused the attention of the outside world, especially when the United States is actively encircling and containing Russia, but with the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Pentagon's planning for the deployment of aircraft carriers has encountered an impact, so it has to call the aircraft carrier into the waters of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to carry out tasks, and focus on the Red Sea, which is very rare.
The U.S. Navy's blockade of Israel by the Houthis in Yemen is mainly aimed at the Red Sea, and the U.S. Navy's use of aircraft carrier strike groups to deal with the so-called "guerrillas in slippers" has really puzzled the outside world. Just when the US Navy aircraft carrier shook its head away, Israel had already carried out a test launch of a ballistic missile, and according to various information, Israel projected a test launch of the Jericho series of ballistic missiles, and the outside world generally believed that the Jericho 3 series ballistic missiles already had a range of 6,000 kilometers, so they had entered the ranks of long-range ballistic missiles. At a time when America's allies are unreliable, Israel is trying to build deterrence through ballistic missile tests, especially against Iran.
Iran and Israel are bitter rivals, Iran has ballistic missiles capable of striking the Israeli mainland, and in fact Iran has used ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones to launch long-range strikes against Israeli military targets in 2024. According to satellite photos, Iran's ballistic missile strikes are very accurate, and the target for Israel is a direct hit, but Israel has not disclosed the damage, which is a common Israeli routine to avoid triggering panic within Israel. For a long time, the IDF has portrayed itself as a "heavenly soldier", leading the outside world to perceive the IDF as an "invincible" force.
In fact, after Israel's Jericho ballistic missile test, Yemen's Houthis have publicly unveiled an anti-ship hypersonic missile, judging from the photos released by the Yemeni Houthis, the Houthi anti-ship missile adopts a double-cone aerodynamic layout, and also has multi-mode guidance capabilities, including infrared guidance, so that it can strike at moving targets at sea. The Houthis have announced that they had used hypersonic missiles to strike an Israeli-linked ocean-going cargo ship, but the shipping companies have denied the Houthis' successes.