Iran Attacked Three Ships at Once – 24 Minutes Later, All Four Batteries and Their Headquarters….lh

Commander David Thompson, in charge of the Constellation, issued the order to fire from the damage control station, stating, “If we’re going down, we’re taking them with us.”

The response was swift and overwhelming.

At 14:25, Vice Admiral Richardson received a report detailing the coordinated attack and authorized strikes on all identified Iranian command infrastructure.

The target package included the four missile batteries, the coastal defense headquarters at Bandar Abbas, and the communications relay that had coordinated the missile salvo.

Additional assets joined the strike, with the USS Prebble launching eight Tomahawks at 14:31, targeting the coastal defense headquarters.

F/A-18F Super Hornets from the USS Enterprise were diverted to attack the ammunition depot at 14:33.

At 14:41, just 24 minutes after the initial attack began, the first American weapons struck their targets.