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US Navy warships shot down Iranian missiles with a weapon they've never used in combat before
The secretary of the Navy said American destroyers fired SM-3s to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles during an unprecedented attack on Israel.
A developmental Standard Missile-3, designed to intercept short- to medium-ranged ballistic-missile threats, is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie. Photo by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images USNI News, citing unnamed defense officials, first reported on Monday that the two ships fired between four and seven SM-3s to intercept the missiles. The SM-3 is an element of the Navy's advanced Aegis Combat System and uses a kinetic kill vehicle to hit and destroy short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles during the midcourse phase of flight.
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