Navy destroyer USS Carney Red Sea
US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Carney engaging missiles and drones in the Red Sea.
  • Iran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel this weekend.
  • The IDF said 99% of the 300 or so Iranian munitions were shot down.
  • US forces destroyed more than 70 of them, according to American officials.

US forces engaged and shot down more than 75 of the missiles and drones that Iran fired at Israel this weekend, marking its biggest air-defense battle of the six-month-long Middle East crisis.

Iran and its proxy militias launched a barrage of 170 attack drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles at Israel in a massive and unprecedented attack on Saturday night local time, according to the Israel Defense Forces.