Laundry is dangerous.

@Quimliqer It is pretty pathetic when you think about it. An aircraft carrier has some very sophisticated fire fighting equipment and have had since they became popular in WWII. It is called damage control. 30 hours of fighting a sock fire and then structural damage so bad the ship is out of service for a year??? And you expect me to believe that????? Kind of like "I won't cum in your mouth".

@hippyjoe1955 It certainly is bizarre. I wonder if it actually started in a tumble-drier, asagood many house fires have been known to start (due to insufficient cleaning) but what's worrying is this suggests this particular ship not being sufficiently well-designed to contain a fire, even one in the accommodation rather than a machinery or aircraft-handling space.

Despite as you imply, decades of collective experience in warship designing.

@ArishMell It is much more plausible that the Ford was hit by an Iranian missile than having it structurally damaged by a sock fire.

@hippyjoe1955 Good point!

If they wanted to lie about the cause, perhaps to try to mislead the Iranians into thinking their missile (or a drone?) had not hit its target, they should have used something more credible than laundry.

@ArishMell I don't pretend to be a ship engineer but when I think of the number of aircraft they have landing and taking off of the flight deck every day and those aircraft aren't light and they don't gently touch down which means everything under the flight deck has to have some beef to it as well. A thirty hour fire from burning laundry? I might have been born at night but it wasn't last night. That thing was hit by a missile. I heard from someone who had inside information about the missile 'shot down' over Cyprus as well. Not only did the missile hit the base it was aimed at it hit the hanger it was aimed at. Why that hanger? Because that hanger was the base of a U 2 spy plane. Both hanger and aircraft inside it were destroyed.

@hippyjoe1955 Well, there is the old saw that war's first casualty is the truth. I suppose here the Americans were trying not to corroborate the Iranian forces' own successes.

A fire that long suggests a lot of burning aircraft fuel.