The U.S. Navy is Firing Missiles in the Middle East Faster Than They Can be Replaced
Story by Peter Suciu • 18h
On October 1, USNI News reported that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Bulkely (DDG-84) and USS Cole (DDG-67) "fired a dozen interceptors as part of the U.S. response to Iranian missiles launched at Israel." The United States Department of Defense confirmed the warships were successful in countering the Iranian attack. Both destroyers employ the Aegis air-defense system that was designed specifically to counter ballistic missiles.
The Islamic Republic fired more than 200 missiles at Iran in response to Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon, but over the past year, U.S. warships have also countered hundreds of missiles and drones fired at Israel and commercial shipping in the Red Sea by the Tehran-back Houthi rebels based in Yemen. More than a half dozen U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are now independently deployed in the region as part of the "multi-national response to the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping," USNI News confirmed.
Though no U.S. Navy warship has taken damage from the attacks – although there have been claims to the contrary – the war is proving to be a costly one, literally. Business Insider reported on Friday that in the most recent Iranian strikes at Israel, the U.S. guided-missile destroyers fired the Standard Missile-3, "a key air-defense interceptor made by RTX and, for some variants, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries."
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