USS Gerald R. Ford Left Croatia after Repairs. It’s Going to War Zone after Heavy Strikes by IRGC (video)?
UPDATE ON APRILE, 3, 2026
It wasn’t clear whether the carrier will move into the Red Sea
«It wasn’t clear whether the carrier will remain in the Mediterranean Sea or move into the Red Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran that is nearing the end of its fifth week» Stars and Stripes has reported.
It’s also uncertain when Ford, which has been deployed for some 284 days, will return to the United States. Earlier this week, the Navy’s highest-ranking officer, Adm. Daryl Caudle, said Ford likely would go into a “record-breaking” 11th month of operations.
The ship “remains poised for full mission tasking in support of national objectives in any area of operation,” the NAVEUR-AF/6th Fleet statement said.
«The ship’s crew took time to enjoy some liberty in Croatia’s historic and hospitable city, as well as go on tours and events scheduled by the ship’s Morale, Welfare, and Recreation team. Additionally, the ship completed scheduled repairs and received supplies to sustain operations. The routine investigation into the ship’s laundry and berthing fire is ongoing» America’s Navy.Mil wrote.
UPDATE ON APRILE, 3, 2026
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford departed Croatia after repairs
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has left Croatia after undergoing repairs during a five-day stopover in Split.
It is not known where it is headed but some news sites have speculated on possible return to military operations in the Middle East related to the conflict with Iran.
The ship had temporarily left the operational area after sustaining damage from a fire in the laundry and crew quarters. The Navy confirmed that repairs have been completed and that the vessel has received supplies to continue its mission.
UPDATE ON MARCH, 28, 2026
A US Navy strike group led by the aircraft carrier George Bush is heading to the US Central Command area
That’s precisely the area. That is, against Iran. This strike group was hastily prepared for deployment as soon as it became clear that the strike group led by the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford had been knocked out of the game as a result of Iranian strikes.
AFP: “USS Gerald Ford arrives in Croatia for maintenance”
«The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier that has been part of Middle East war operations, arrives in the Croatian city of Split as it heads toward the port, with the embassy saying it was part of a “scheduled port visit and maintenance”» AFP has reported in its YouTube channel.
The carrier left a naval base in Crete earlier this week after returning to the base following a laundry fire onboard, which injured two crew members.
Trump: US navy men ‘ran for their lives’ as Iranian forces struck USS Gerald R. Ford from 17 angles
US President Donald Trump has reportedly detailed how the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, came under a coordinated 17-angle attack by Iranian armed forces in the Red Sea, according to Press TV and other iranian outlets.
Delivering a speech at a Saudi investment forum in Miami on Friday, Trump described the moments leading up to the attack as “a serious situation” for the US Navy.
He said the naval forces were prepared, but the intensity of the attack by Iranian naval forces quickly escalated the situation.
“It was one o’clock in the morning,” Trump said, when the warship came under attack “from 17 different angles. We knew we were in trouble,” the president admitted.
UPDATE ON MARCH, 24, 2026
USS Ford at Greece: NEW VIDEO
A subsequent satellite check revealed that the USS Ford is still en route, and therefore the image could refer to a temporary refueling stop in one of the many ports in the Red Sea.
It arrived in Greece only last night, and the images show severe damage that could force it to remain idle for almost a year while the large stern hole caused by the massive fire, are repaired.
UPDATE ON MARCH, 22, 2026
Military Footage of the severe damage sustained by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford
The aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford is very damaged and at now it could be unable to fight in Iran War.
Following the New York Times articles about the fire that broke out on board, perhaps due to an alleged act of mutiny by sailors who had been on a mission for too many months, and the retreat of the world’s largest and most expensive warship to a Greek base in the Mediterranean Sea for essential repairs, a military video now confirms the enormity of the damage.
The video is unverified but was apparently filmed on the island of Crete, where the aircraft carrier is located. The conditional is a must, as there are no details confirming where and when it was filmed.
Lending credibility to the few-second video is the fact that it was posted on the X account by the great geopolitics and intelligence expert George Galloway, a British politician and writer who was elected to Parliament in 2024.
Gallowat published the post this afternoon and it immediately went viral, garnering over 1 million views. For this reason, X posted a warning (visible only in the user’s native language) highlighting that some readers have claimed it was AI-generated.
But the sources cited by X are an initial article in the NY Times from March 16, which doesn’t even mention the ship’s return to Greece, as the same American newspaper reported a few days later. Here, then, is a case where the alleged denial is weaker than the alleged authenticity.
POSTED ON MARCH, 19, 2026
USS Ford Forced to Retreat in Greece after Big Blaze (VIDEO).
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Serious problems and enormous mysteries are looming over the American aircraft carriers sent by President Donald Trump in the suicidal war against Iran.
And suspicions are even emerging of sabotage by soldiers who do not appear to be in favor of a conflict waged against Tehran’s powerful arsenal solely to appease the allies of the Zionist regime of Israel, as Joe Kent, the resigning US national counterterrorism chief, has so aptly denounced.
According to some sources, after a “laundry fire” onboard the USS Gerald Ford left over 600 personnel without bunks, forcing them to sleep on floors and tables, the warship is now heading to Greece to refuel and investigate whether the fire, which was more serious than we have reported on March, 13.
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Greek Outlet: “Fire on USS Ford caused by crew members to terminate their extended mission”
The blaze took over 30 hours to extinguish, was “deliberately caused by crew members to terminate their extended mission,” according to Greek outlet Kathimerini.
US aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is preparing to leave the Red Sea to undergo repairs in the US Navy base on a Greek island after a fire that required several hours of putting out, according to USNI News.
The aircraft carrier will travel to Souda Bay on the island of Crete for repairs that will last for more than a week, according to the report citing a senior US official.
The aircraft carrier had already been forced to make an unexpected stop at the same Greek island to fix the sewage disposal system due to a mysterious fault in the ship’s toilets, which had forced the more than 4,500 sailors to wait in long queues of up to 45 minutes to perform their physiological functions.
The New York Times Detailed Report on the Blaze
The NY Times says this marks twice the length of a normal carrier deployment – one wrought with extreme difficulties and a major emergency, as the report details:
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.
There was chaos aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford after a major onboard fire knocked out a big swathe of living quarters, leaving hundreds of US sailors without beds in the middle of a live war deployment, in what marks a much bigger incident than what the Pentagon previously disclosed.
The Questions whether it was hit by an Iranian drone or missile attack as USS Lincoln
«The fire occurred last week, raising immediate questions of whether it was hit by an Iranian drone or missile attack, as Tehran has claimed, amid Pentagon insistence that it was none of these – but just an accidental fire» Tyler Durden wrote on ZeroEdge pointing out that CENTCOM has said that the fire caused “no damage to the ship’s propulsion plant, and the aircraft carrier remains fully operational.”
Skeptics have raised eyebrows at the abundance of major incidents listed as ‘accidents’ by the Pentagon.
Before, the IRGC said it targeted the USS Lincoln causing significant damages and forcing the vessel to retreat back to the US, which CENTCOM denied.
The nuclear-powered vessel USS Ford has indeed been running around the clock fighter jet operations connected to Operation Epic Fury, amid ongoing heavy aerial bombardment of Iranian cities.
Biden’s former national security spokesman, Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, has been cited as saying “Ships get tired too, and they get beat up over the course of long deployments.”
And ultimately, he explained: “You can’t run a ship that long and that hard and expect her and her crew to perform at peak capacity.”
Carlo Domenico Cristofori
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