Iran Launched Their Most Feared Missile at USS Thomas Hudner — America’s Response Was…
THIS IS AN URGENT TACTICAL UPDATE. Go inside the most extraordinary missile defense engagement ever fought in the Arabian Gulf — the morning Iran fired its Fattah hypersonic missile at USS Thomas Hudner and watched every American defense system fail to stop it.
Witness how two SM-6 interceptors missed, how the Phalanx CIWS had a 3.2% chance of success, and how Lieutenant Commander James Okafor had eleven seconds to execute a solution he had written about in a Naval War College paper three years earlier — firing the ship’s Mk 45 naval gun in proximity burst mode to build a fragmentation corridor directly in the path of a missile traveling at Mach 13.
