Costs $ 4.3 million: US Navy first applied SM-6 rocket to protect against Hussite attack

For the first time in history, US USS Carney ship used the SM-6 anti-aircraft missile against a ballistic anti-ship missile. Pentagon for the first time confirmed the SM-6 anti-aircraft missile to the Red Sea of ​​Yemeni. About it reports The War Zone. Within the framework of the Civil Procedure Protection campaign in the Red Sea and the Gulf, the USS Carney ship first used the SM-6 anti-aircraft missile for the first time.

According to journalists, this can be the first use of ammunition in combat. SM-6 has unique characteristics that can knock down ballistic missiles in the final phase of the flight, which could have caused the use of this ammunition. It is noted that SM-6 was used to knock down an anti-ship ballistic rocket. The USS Carney Crew is not active in the Red Sea for the first time since the beginning of the war in Israel on October 7. The ship has seized at least 38 Hussites drones.

Earlier, the US Central command confirmed only the use of SM-2 missiles-a less sophisticated and cheap version of the anti-aircraft missile. The SM-6 rocket exists in two versions of Block I and Block IA, which can be used against a wide range of air, land and surface purposes. It is also now in the development of Block IB, which will have more options against hypersonic threats.

Observing the targets on the SM-6 rocket is due to the Higher Electronics Terminal and the Amraam rocket and the semi-active self-esteem radar head. This allows you to intercept a variety of threats. The cost of one SM-6 missile is about $ 4. 2-4. 3 million. We will remind, on November 15 the United States approved the sale of South Korea of ​​the advanced system about SM-6. On January 29, the media wrote that the US could attack Iran in response to the death of US soldiers in Jordan.