Iran's IRGC Navy claimed to have struck the USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles, rendering it non-operational. However, the US has denied this, stating the carrier continues its operations. Separately,

Iran claimed it struck a US aircraft carrier with drones as it retaliated against a joint US-Israeli attack in late February that has triggered a regional war, but two videos circulating on social media do not show purported damage to the USS Abraham Lincoln.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is conducting active flight operations with F-35C Lightning II stealth fighters in the Arabian Sea, placing some of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced combat aircraft at the center of an increasingly volatile theater.