{"id":699673,"date":"2026-06-05T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699673"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:30:24","slug":"new-footage-reveals-ford-carrier-damage-far-more-severe-than-pentagon-acknowledged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699673","title":{"rendered":"New Footage Reveals Ford Carrier Damage Far More Severe Than Pentagon Acknowledged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;I seriously thought we were going to lose the ship. It\u2019s either fight or die<\/strong>.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newly surfaced footage obtained by CNN indicates that a severe fire aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest aircraft carrier &#8211; inflicted far more extensive damage than the Trump administration initially admitted to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the conflict it was forced to depart Mideast regional waters and retreat West in the Mediterranean, before undergoing extensive repairs at port in Croatia. Pundits were skeptical of official explanations, which suggested an accidental fire was sparked in the laundry room aboard the giant vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The major blaze erupted in March at a moment Iran claimed to have directly hit US naval vessels, but crisis was consistently downplayed by Pentagon officials at the time.\u00a0The obtained video reveals severely destroyed sleeping quarters, showing sailors&#8217; bunks entirely reduced to charred, twisted metal. The ceiling directly above the berthing areas appears completely gutted by the intense flames, while exposed wiring hangs from overhead and thick ash blankets the floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/new-footage-reveals-ford-carrier-damage-far-more-severe-pentagon-acknowledged\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/new-footage-reveals-ford-carrier-damage-far-more-severe-pentagon-acknowledged<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I seriously thought we were going to lose the ship. It\u2019s either fight or die.&#8220; Newly surfaced footage obtained by CNN indicates that a severe fire aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest aircraft carrier &#8211; inflicted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699674,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699673\/revisions\/699674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}