During the latest desperate joint assault on American carrier strike groups, Russia provided real-time targeting intelligence and electronic warfare support to Iran. Waves of ballistic missiles, drones, and anti-ship weapons bore down on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford. In a stunning tactical masterstroke, the U.S. Navy deliberately allowed a strike to hit one of its Arleigh Burke-class destroyers — sacrificing the vessel and crew in a heroic stand to draw the full enemy barrage into the open.