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BREAKING: 52 MISSILES. ZERO IMPACT. Read that again. Fifty-two coordinated Iranian missiles launched at a United States Navy Carrier Strike Group. And they didn’t scratch the USS Abraham Lincoln. While an E-2D Hawkeye circled high above the Gulf of Oman… watching… scanning… calculating… the entire salvo was detected in...

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