The US is sending a second aircraft carrier with its impact team in the Middle East, a US Department of Defense spokesman announced Tuesday Sean Parnell, referring to the need to protect navigation and trade.

The announcement was made public as the Yemeni rebels, supported by Iran, took responsibility last month for repeated attacks on USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. Washington, who has launched a series of bombings in Yemen in recent weeks, has not confirmed these attacks.

Houthi are targeting merchant ships in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden from the outbreak of the war in the Gauze strip In October 2023.

According to the American Pentagon, in the power of USS Harry Truman It will be added that of USS Carl Vinsonwho just finished gymnasiums in ‘Indo-Pacific region’to “The regional stability, the deterrence of any aggression and the protection of the free flow of trade in the region continues to be promoted.”

The US Department of Defense did not specify exactly where the two aeronautical impact forces are sailing.

At the same time, the Minister of Defense Pitt Hegsheth ordered the development “In addition to other air resources to further enhance our potential for defense and support”, Always according to Mr. Parnell.

The US Navy has eleven aircraft carriers, each of which can carry about eighty aircraft of various types.