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[Video] Iranian missile strikes Haifa (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Allegedly the building it struck next to:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Oh no... Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no, the consequences of the actions of our asshole country are raining down upon us.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Won’t someone please think of poor Israel who shot first, and is doing a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any update on casualties?

Looks like it targeted a goverment building

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Complete rumors use heavy salt: Allegedly it targeted a gated-off IDF complex next to the building

Video of aftermath

Refining location a bit as more images come in. Natanzon St 28 suffered a direct hit! It is a gated, fenced and checkpointed government/IDF installation. The building adjacent to the Sail tower, which houses Israeli government ministries such as the ministry of interior.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was it a miss, or was there something that it was aiming for?

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It looks like the missile was intercepted, but the debris still caused significant damage. It fell straight down.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That definitely didn't look like it was intercepted or just debris.

[–] SapphironZA 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe he is correct. You see one puff of an interceptor missing to the right, but look back up the trail of the one that hit, there is another puff on it sooner.

It also does not look like a detonation to me. More like what happens when a 500kg chunk hits the ground at Mach 2ish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I think someone can calculate the speed of it.

Use multiple building height next to it and calculate the covered distance using the camera frames.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can literally see the explosion in the sky, and then the thing falling straight down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it looks more like the ignition of a 2nd stage motor, since it picks up speed, but I'm no rocket surgeon.

[–] SapphironZA 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought so too, but I think the acceleration is an optical illusion due to the warhead coming in slightly towards the camera. I also don't recall any ballistic missiles carrying a terminal motor that kicks in that late.

That's usually only for cruise missiles. Gravity does a good enough job of giving the warhead speed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It could certainly be an optical illusion.

It could be a tactic to confuse anti missile batteries, by firing half a second after apogee. Gravity is fixed/known, but a secondary booster could be fired at different accelerations. Also it would leave less time to intercept

[–] SapphironZA -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure Iranian missiles are that advanced. Even the Soviet missiles designed to take out supercarriers only had the most basic terminal maneuverability. And those were done by fins. Even the US has only recently caught up with that level of ballistic missile tech by the mid 2000s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It is 2025. Soviet missiles are no longer the most advanced technology and it's not impossible to imagine that Iran has developed technology better than that of a country that hasn't existed for 25 years.

There is much evidence supporting Iran as having missiles capable of maneuvering post launch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

it appears multiple missiles were there and disrupted, one got through.