Israel seaborne missile: The military said on Tuesday that Israel hit a drone coming from the Red Sea with a seaborne missile defence system for the first time. The drone had set off sirens in the port city of Eilat.
Iran supports the Houthis in Yemen, who frequently fire rockets at Eilat to show their support for Hamas, the Palestinian organization that controls Gaza and is also Iran-backed.
The Israeli military said that after the war in Gaza began, they put missile boats in the Red Sea. With a new device called the C-Dome, one of those missile boats shot down the drone.
“Overnight, for the first time ever, an IDF Sa’ar 6-class corvette missile ship successfully intercepted a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that had approached from the east and had crossed into the area of the Gulf of Eilat,” according to the military.
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The Iron Dome is Israel’s rocket defence system that has stopped thousands of rockets fired from Gaza. The C-Dome is its navy version. The Iron Dome has been in use since 2011 and has a very good success rate of 90%. It uses radars to find short-range rockets and then destroys them with its missiles.
The C-Dome was first shown off in 2014, and it was officially opened to the public in November 2022. Some of the same technology is used to make it work, like the Iron Dome, but it is placed on ships instead.
It stands on either side of Arrow-3, which is part of Israel’s multi-tiered air defence system and is meant to stop ballistic missiles before they reach Earth’s atmosphere.
