USS Truman conducted largest airstrike in Navy history, official says

USS Truman Carried Out Largest Carrier Airstrike in History

During its recent deployment to the Mideast, the USS Harry S. Truman launched the largest airstrike ever conducted from an aircraft carrier - before Truman's monthlong bombing campaign over Yemen even began.  According to acting chief of naval operations Adm. James Kilby, Truman's air wing dropped 125,000 pounds of ordnance over a target in Somalia - nearly enough to fill two B-52 strategic bombers.  U.S. officials told Business Insider and Defe…

USS Truman conducted largest airstrike in Navy history, official says

The U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 1 engaged in the largest maritime strike in Navy aviation history in terms of bomb tonnage earlier this year, a defense official confirmed to Military Times.On Feb. 1, the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman launched 27 F/A-18 Super Hornets as part of a coordinated airstrike against Islamic State operatives in Somalia in collaboration with the federal government of Somalia, a defense official with knowledge of the s…