See post #5.
The U.S. ships were in the middle of the Straight. The Iranian ships were East of the U.S. ships. The Iranian ships launched the missiles East towards Iran, directly away from the U.S. ships.
U.S. ships -—> Iranian ships -—> Iranian missiles headed away.
If you shot the Phalanx guns at the Iranian missiles, the rounds would travel through the Iranian ships and then have to catch up to the departing missiles.
Do y’all understand what being on the back side of a launch looks like instead of being on the same side of a ship as it launches missiles??
Because Fox News sure doesn’t...unless you think that they crafted that news headline to jerk the chains of people who don’t think about the news before they react.
Those Iranian ships were 1,500 yards away from the closest U.S. ship. If the ship was 20 yards wide, then the closest those missiles ever were to the U.S. ships was 1,520 yards away.
Since they were launched from the far side of the Iranian ships headed directly away from the U.S. ships, the missiles forever got farther away from our U.S. ships as they flew.