This is how the US and Iran locked into a brutal, tit-for-tat escalation. To pull off a mission like this, the US relies on a mixed force of carrier-based aircraft and guided-missile destroyers. The chaos began when radar screens in the US command centers suddenly lit up. Deadly, one-way attack drones were flying in fast, tracking straight toward an American container ship. The US had to launch a counterattack immediately. Their weapon of choice in the air? The F/A-18 Super Hornet. These fighters rushed to intercept the swarm, launching heat-seeking missiles to blast the drones out of the sky. But the Navy didn’t just use raw firepower. They also sent in the EA-18G Growler—an electronic warfare powerhouse—to completely block the drones’ radio signals. But how do you stop these drone swarms from attacking permanently? Well, the US realized they couldn’t just play defense. They had to trac

Source: US Strikes Iran’s Secret Drone and Missile Base