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The guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley, which played a role in shooting down Iranian missiles that were fired at Israel on Tuesday. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Zac Shea
The US Navy shot down at least three ballistic missiles using the Aegis missile defense system aboard two guided-missiles destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean, officials told CNN’s Oren ...
The guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley, which played a role in shooting down Iranian missiles that were fired at Israel on Tuesday. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Zac Shea
At 10:24 a.m, Vincennes fired two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles, shooting down the Iranian civilian airliner over Iranian airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. All 290 passengers and crew on board were killed. The victims included 66 children and a family of 16 who were on their way to a wedding in Dubai.
A U.S. official said that at least nine Iranian missiles had struck two Israeli airbases, causing minor damage. [5] Some of the ballistic missiles were shot down in space by the Arrow system. [32] The missiles caused minor damage to the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, which remained operational.
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he directed the U.S. military to help Israel shoot down Iranian missiles -- an attack, Biden said, that appears to have been "defeated and ineffective." "This is ...
The US helped Israel successfully counter the roughly 180 missiles Tehran lobbed at the Jewish state, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters.