If there’s ever time to correct the boss in public, Adm. Brad Cooper found it.
The career military man andU.S. Central Command commandertook the stage during a news briefing on Thursday to update reporters on the progress of the ongoing military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And he took good news Trump delivered earlier and turned it into even better news — at least for viewers rooting for the American side.
ADMIRAL BRAD COOPER: “You may have heard the president say, just a little while ago, that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships.That was true at the moment, we’re now up over 30 ships.”
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“You may have heard the president say, just a little while ago, that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships” in the Iranian navy, Cooper told reporters.
“That was true at the moment. We’re now up over 30 ships. And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it’s on fire.”
Going into 2026, the Iranian navy included 90 vessels — mostly smaller amphibious and patrol boats, according toGlobalMilitary.net, awebsitethat tracks international armed forces through open-source data.
That would mean fully one-third of the Islamic Republic’s naval fleet is either underwater or otherwise out of commission.
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