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Missile interception caught on snowboarder's camera in Golan Heights (theguardian.com)
40 points by kuhhk on Jan 22, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


thats pretty wild to see


I can only see 2 trails, but not the actual interception. Theres's a slight flash at around 0:25, is that it?


Yes. There are two flashes in fact. Usually you also hear the booms and sirens beforehand, so maybe it was quite afar this time.


Thanks for the explanation. Does this look like an exercise?

What I can glean from the short clip is this:

- there is a rocket launched at around 0:08 from a valley nearby the skateboarder with the camera

- you can hear the noise of that rocket almost instantaneously, so the distance is not very high, maybe a few kilometers at most.

- we can't see when the interceptor is launched, but I see it chasing the first rocket closely around 0:13, so the interceptor must've been launched almost at the same time as the first rocket

- at 0:24 the first rocket tries an evading maneuver, a sharp turn

- the interceptor is not fooled, follows closely, and the detonation appears to happen at 0:25. I am not completely sure, but it appears you can see the plume a few seconds later

- the camera follows back the smoke trails (or maybe contrails?) and the two rockets appear to have started from virtually the same place

- neither rocket appears to have two stages

This could be consistent with either an exercise (for example to test how an interceptor performs when the target takes evasive actions), or a staged show of military capabilities (better show you carry a big stick than actually use it), or a real interception of a rocket launched from the Syrian-Israeli border (this explains the proximity: the Syrian battery is located near the border, but so is the Iron Dome battery too).

Anyway, here's the wikiepdia short entry [1]

"On 21 January 2019, the IDF released footage online of a Syrian Arab Army rocket attack on the Golan Heights being intercepted by Iron Dome. The video was shot by skiers at Mount Hermon ski resort; Israeli authorities announced that the resort was closed until further notice The attack as in response to Israel's launching of nine rockets at SAA targets in western Damascus.[106][107][108]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome#Mount_Hermon_video




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