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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Captain Jerry Henrich's United States Navy retired aviator at the

Sagamore Institute to help me understand what we witnessed in the last 24 hours

over the skies of Tel Aviv and the West Bank and Jordan,

the attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran with ballistic missiles on a civilian population at Tel Aviv and the attack was meant to be

not only provocative but deadly. It did not happen. And an explanation is the series, the levels of air defense that are now arrayed around Israel.

Part of that level is the US Navy, learned and I bring Jerry on to help me understand the

language and the capability of the US Navy where it is, where it needs to be in order to defend the next time Iran tries to get

through the air defense in Israel.

Jerry a very good evening to you I believe the news says destroyers participated.

That would be the Arley Burke class.

What do we know about who brought down Iranian missiles?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John, and good evening to your listeners, and it's good to be on with you again.

It appears that 12 standard missiles were fired

from two US Navy destroyers, the USS coal, which has a very storied past having been

attacked by terrorists itself while in port in Yemen back in the year 2000, and then the

U.S.S. bulkly named after the great World War II PT boat CEO who had

whisked MacArthur out of the Philippines a ship itself which is also fairly old both of these ships were built in the early

1990s and have gotten systematic upgrades throughout their lives but it appears that

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