Does a video show the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln burning in the Red Sea after being hit by Iranian missiles in 2026? No, that's not true: The video first appeared online on June 23, 2025, in a post making a similar false claim during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel happening at that time. It appears to have been generated by the Arma 3 video game. U.S. military officials said on March 1, 2026, that none of the missiles launched by Iran came close to hitting the American aircraft carrier.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) where it was published by the @almohamadawi31 X account on March 1, 2026. The caption with the 13-second video read:
Targeting the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which America and its agents were boasting about..
4 ballistic missiles were enough for it!
This is what the first frame of the video looked like at the time of writing:
The video could not be related to the fighting between the U.S. and Iran that began on February 28, 2026, since it was also posted (archived here) on June 23, 2025. It was at the time that Israel, the United States, and Iran were engaged in missile exchanges known as the Twelve-Day War.
The caption on the video in the earlier post, translated into English from Arabic, read:
Now, the first Iranian response targeting the American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. (Join in sharing this, may God reward you)
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