2026年2月19日 / 美国东部时间上午10:24 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：乔安妮·斯托克（Verification producer）
乔安妮·斯托克是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻核实部的核实制作人。她曾担任库尔德斯坦24英文频道主编和《国防邮报》执行主编。15年来，她将开源调查方法与实地报道相结合，报道冲突、恐怖主义和虚假信息。
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美国海军1000英尺长的”杰拉尔德·R·福特”号航空母舰周三下午开启了追踪系统数小时，其位置显示该舰正位于摩洛哥西海岸以西约175英里处，航向直布罗陀海峡并继续驶入地中海。该舰公布的位置表明，它可能比之前预期提前数天抵达东地中海。
“福特”号是特朗普总统下令驶向伊朗周边水域的第二艘美国航空母舰，这是他施压伊朗就核计划达成协议的大规模军事集结的一部分。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻分析发现，这支被特朗普称为”舰队”的海军力量，还伴随有大量美军战机被派往欧洲和中东。
国家安全高级官员向特朗普表示，美军已准备好最早在周六对伊朗发动潜在打击，但行动时间线可能会延长至本周末之后，知情人士周三向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露。
官员们表示，特朗普尚未就是否对伊朗发动打击做出最终决定，他们要求匿名讨论敏感的国家安全问题。
开启自动识别系统（AIS）并允许自身出现在开源海事追踪网站上，是”福特”号的明显信号——不仅是为了让众多关注海军动态的记者和爱好者追踪其动向，也是为了让伊朗方面知晓其存在。
2026年2月18日，”福特”号在开源海事追踪网站MarineTraffic上短暂可见，当时它位于非洲西北海岸，正驶向直布罗陀海峡和更远的地中海。[MarineTraffic.com]
此次大规模美国海军集结，正值美国空军力量从本土基地向欧洲和中东的大规模调动（这一调动讨论较少但同样公开）。
仅在周三8小时内，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻核实部就识别出50多架美国空军和海军飞机从美国东西海岸的军事机场向东飞行，前往英国、欧洲大陆，最终抵达中东，其中一些飞机在约旦-沙特阿拉伯边境附近消失在雷达屏幕上。
这些在途中飞行的飞机主要是加油机、运输机和侦察机。除了公开追踪信息外，照片显示美国空军F-15、F-22和F-35战斗机本周在英国基地起降。
民用飞机观察员将这些照片上传至社交媒体，表明除了追踪数据中显示的后勤飞机外，美国打击力量也已进入该地区。
2026年2月17日，一架美国F-22″猛禽”战斗机降落在英国皇家空军拉肯希思基地——这是英国东部的美国空军基地。[Jack Austin]
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻周三追踪的飞行，仅代表了最近几天数百架可见飞机移动中的一小部分。
虽然美军在全球范围内重新部署装备和部队并不罕见，但此次飞机（特别是加油机）的激增，以及它们在”福特”号即将抵达前抵达亚速尔群岛和克里特岛基地，加剧了外界对美国可能对伊朗发动攻击的猜测。
亚速尔群岛（大西洋中部的葡萄牙岛屿）和希腊克里特岛的基地，在2025年6月的”午夜锤击”行动中发挥了关键作用——当时美国对伊朗核设施发动打击，同时以色列与伊朗展开了为期12天的战争。
五角大楼发布的图表显示了2025年6月”午夜锤击”行动的飞行路径和时间线——这是美国打击伊朗核设施的行动。[国防部]
如果”福特”号按计划在未来几天驶入地中海，它将与自1月起部署在阿拉伯海的”亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航母打击群会合，后者已进入伊朗打击范围内。”林肯”号最近一次在公开卫星图像中出现是在2月15日，位于阿曼海岸约200英里处。
这两艘美国航空母舰都是各自打击群的旗舰，打击群包括其他军舰以及数十架战斗机和战斗直升机。尽管世界最大航母”福特”号上周离开加勒比海后似乎已与打击群脱节，但完整的”林肯”打击群已在中东部署数周。
此外，还有独立于航母打击群部署的制导导弹驱逐舰，包括地中海的”罗斯福”号和”布尔克”号、红海的”德尔伯特·D·布莱克”号以及波斯湾的”米切尔”号。
As Trump pushes Iran to make a deal, scores of U.S. warplanes join “armada” heading for the region
February 19, 2026 / 10:24 AM EST / CBS News
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The U.S. Navy’s 1,000-foot-long aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford switched on its tracking system for a few hours Wednesday afternoon, revealing its position about 175 miles off the west coast of Morocco on a path for the Strait of Gibraltar and onward into the Mediterranean Sea. The location revealed by the vessel suggested it could arrive in the Eastern Mediterranean days earlier than previously anticipated.
The Ford is the second U.S. aircraft carrier ordered by President Trump to head for the waters around Iran as part of a massive military buildup as he pushes the Islamic Republic to make a deal on its nuclear program. The naval “armada,” as Mr. Trump has called it, is accompanied by a huge surge of U.S. military aircraft to Europe and the Middle East, a CBS News analysis has found.
Top national security officials have told Mr. Trump the U.S. military is ready for potential strikes on Iran as soon as Saturday, but the timeline for any action is likely to extend beyond this weekend, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump has not yet made a final decision about whether to strike Iran, said the officials, who spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.
Activating the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and allowing itself to appear on open-source maritime tracking websites was a clear signal that the Ford wanted to be seen — not only by the scores of journalists and hobbyists keeping tabs on naval traffic, but also by Iran.
The USS Gerald R Ford was temporarily visible on Feb. 18, 2026, on open-source maritime tracking website MarineTraffic, off the northwest coast of Africa heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean beyond. MarineTraffic.com
The massive U.S. naval buildup has come amid a less discussed, but equally public mass-movement of American airpower from home bases to Europe and the Middle East.
Over just eight hours on Wednesday, CBS News Confirmed was able to identify more than 50 U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft flying east from military airfields on both U.S. coasts to the United Kingdom, continental Europe and on to the Middle East, where some then disappeared from radar around the Jordan-Saudi Arabia border.
The aircraft seen in transit were mostly refueling, transport and surveillance planes. In addition to the public tracking information, photographs have shown U.S. Air Force F-15, F-22, and F-35 fighter jets landing at U.K. bases and taking off again this week.
The images, captured by civilian plane spotters who upload them to social media, indicate that in addition to the logistics aircraft revealed by tracking data, American strike power has also been moving into the region.
A U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter jet is seen landing at RAF Lakenheath, a U.S. Air Force base in eastern England, Feb. 17, 2026. Jack Austin
The flights tracked by CBS News on Wednesday represented only a fraction of the hundreds of aircraft movements visible in recent days.
While it is not unusual for the U.S. military to reposition equipment and troops around the world, the surge of aircraft, particularly refueling planes, and their arrival at bases in the Azores and Crete ahead of the Ford’s looming arrival, have fueled speculation about a possible U.S. attack on Iran.
The bases in the Azores — Portuguese islands in the mid-Atlantic — and the Greek island of Crete, were both critical during Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in June, which were carried out in conjunction with Israel’s 12-day war with Iran.
A graphic released by the Pentagon shows the flight path and timeline of Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. operation to strike nuclear sites in Iran, June 21, 2025. Defense Department
If the Ford sails into the Mediterranean as it appears set to do in the coming days, it will join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which has been deployed to the Arabian Sea since January, within striking distance of Iran. The Lincoln was most recently seen in public satellite imagery on Feb. 15, about 200 miles off the coast of Oman.
Both U.S. aircraft carriers are the flagship vessels of their strike groups, which include other warships and dozens of fighter jets and combat helicopters. While the Ford — the largest aircraft carrier in the world — appears to have pulled ahead of its strike group after departing from the Caribbean last week, the full Lincoln strike group has been in the Middle East for weeks.
There are also already guided-missile destroyers deployed independent of the carrier strike groups, including the USS Roosevelt and USS Bulkeley in the Mediterranean, the USS Delbert D Black in the Red Sea, and the USS Mitscher in the Persian Gulf.
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