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Missile Defense System Keeps Watch on Syria

Published February 15, 2013

Six batteries of U.S. made, but NATO-backed, missile defense systems have been set up in southeastern Turkey to protect against aerial attacks from war-torn Syria. VOA's Scott Bobb visited one installation near the city of Gaziantep and has this report.


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