First Warning: How Guardians Sparked Fight to Defeat Iran’s Missiles
Jan. 22, 2025 | By Greg Hadley
This is the first in a two-part series on the role of the Space Force in responding to Iran’s attacks on Israel in 2024. Part 2 will run later this week.
When missiles are detected putting U.S. or allies at risk, alarms ring out, sending Space Force Guardians scrambling to calculate trajectories and potential impact areas and to determine if any U.S. or allied assets are at risk. Within minutes, if not seconds, they share those alerts.
Those alert tones rang out fast and furious on April 13, 2024, when Iran launched some 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and one-way attack drones toward Israel, more than 1,000 miles to its west.
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