Route
Right now
- Expected position
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- Speed
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- Course
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- Distance to go
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- Transit complete
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- Crosses 68°E (CENTCOM)
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Final station
21°30′N 062°00′E, in the North Arabian Sea. That is about 140 nautical miles east-south-east of Ras al Hadd, the eastern tip of Oman, at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman and roughly 330 nautical miles inside the CENTCOM boundary at 68°E.
The Navy has not published an operating position. This point is an assumption: public reporting says the ship is bound for the Arabian Sea to relieve USS George Washington, and carriers on that station have typically operated off Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz. The countdown runs to this point and will be wrong if the ship stops short of it or goes further.
Last public position fix
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Source:
Public reports
How this is estimated
US warships rarely broadcast their position. Between public fixes the ship is moved along an assumed route (Strait of Malacca, south of Sri Lanka, Nine Degree Channel, Arabian Sea) at the last reported speed. The real ship can be well away from the marker, and the uncertainty grows with every hour since the last fix.
Public sources are checked every 5 hours. When a newer position or speed is published, the estimate and the arrival date are recalculated from it.