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For an operation of this kind, the US would likely need to use its bases in the Gulf, as well as aircraft carriers.

Trump's threat came after the Houthis targeted a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea following US strikes on Yemen that its health ministry said had killed at least 53 people.

When the King visited aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, he appeared wearing a set of Canadian medals.

The Carl Vinson was taking part in an exercise with two other aircraft carriers and their escorting destroyers from France and Japan, about 200km east of the Philippines.

Consider that Naval Station Norfolk, the largest military port in the world and home to five of 12 U.S. aircraft carriers, is now sinking beneath the waves.