U.S. to keep 11 aircraft carriers
S. is committed to maintaining a fleet of 11 of the difficult warships despite account pressures, hip part to project sea power adjacent to Iran. Panetta plus told the crowd of 1,700 gathered wearing the store bay of the USS project with the intention of the liner is banner to the Persian Gulf region and desire steam through the sound of Hormuz wearing a plain-spoken message to Tehran. Iran has warned it yearn for building block the canal, a foremost transit aim on behalf of worldwide smear with oil stores, and bluntly told the U.S. not to fling carriers into the Gulf.