Are you ill-informed enough to believe this?
In response to a Russian invasion, the United States has sent an aircraft carrier strike group toward the Black Sea to be able to respond to developments on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine. The super-carrier USS George H.W. Bush plus seventeen other ships and three submarines passed through the Aegean sea this afternoon. The George H.W. Bush is carrying 90 aircraft including helicopters of various types, and several squadron's of F-22 Raptors, the most advanced combat aircraft in the world. The submarines each have twenty four missile silos, with each silo housing a missile armed with eight separate nuclear warheads which operate as MIRV's (Multiple Independent Re-Entry Vehicles) that can be independently targeted.
Don't pay attention to that "news" site.
It takes a true nugget of fact--the ship is in Greek waters--and turns it into a threat to Russia.
F-22s are an Air Force plane and are not capable of operating from a carrier.
A single carrier battle group does not have that many escorts.
A single carrier does not carry that many aircraft.
And the notion that we need to mass three SSBNs within range of Russia in constricted waters in order to launch their missiles is just nonsense.
I only write this because my statistics package shows that Russians are searching for this information.
Oh, and on a related note, if the Russian government displays proof of NATO intervention prior to Russia's invasion of Crimea, that's nonsense, too. See the last three links in the update for what the Russians did regarding their Georgia War.
