Anti-Ballistic Missile Kills joined by Nato Allies | Iran and Israel
The first European ballistic missile kill was scored on the heels of U.S. Navy ships operating in the Red Sea, where the HMS Diamond destroyed a ballistic missile targeting the American container ship MV Maersk with French designed Aster surface-to-air missile, part of her Sea Viper air defence system. The first such Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)kill cam e with little fanfare when on the "morning of April 14, U.S. ships successfully engaged and destroyed more than 80 one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles and at least six ballistic missiles intended to strike Israel from Iran and Yemen,” reads a statement from CENTCOM. Working in concert, the USS Carney and the USS Arleigh Burke came together that day to intercept six Iranian ballistic missiles before the HMS Diamond also scored a seventh ballistic missile kill, and a first for the Royal Navy with her first missile-to-missile engagement in combat since the Gulf War. Previously, the U.S. Navy had stood alone as the primary force i...
