Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia

Force in Play

Targeted by Iranian missiles; neither missile struck the facility

For nearly a decade, Iran insisted it had deliberately capped its ballistic missile range at 2,000 kilometers — far enough to hit Israel and American bases in the Middle East, but not Europe. On March 21, 2026, Iran fired two missiles at the joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean atoll roughly 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory. One missile failed in flight; a United States warship intercepted the other. Neither struck the base — but the attempt itself rewrote the strategic map.

Updated 3 hours ago