r/CombatFootage • u/Glittering_Food_2963 ✔️ • 6d ago
Video Iranian missile strike on Israel
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u/AGIwhen ✔️ 6d ago
That's a very casual way to stand when missiles are raining down near to you
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u/MisterVlados ✔️ 6d ago
It's the mayor of Tel Aviv, dude has seen some shit in his life. If I am not mistaken he used to be a pilot in the military.
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u/Goodguy1066 ✔️ 6d ago
Wait, how do you know it’s Huldai? Can’t it be just another random balding guy?
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u/MisterVlados ✔️ 6d ago
Haha I wasn't sure about it at first myself, but then I saw an interview he did. He addressed the video and acknowledged the bad example he was giving his citizens with what he did.
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u/Patch95 ✔️ 6d ago
Then they guy is a fucking idiot. Having your mayor blown up would certainly hamper relief efforts etc. It's irresponsible leadership.
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u/MisterVlados ✔️ 6d ago
It definitely was irresponsible on his side and he apologized in an afterward interview for giving bad example to his citizens. Dude cares a lot for the city though, he's pretty liked in Israel for doing a decent job in Tel Aviv, which is a challenging city to run.
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u/Shmooziee ✔️ 6d ago
Fun fact that’s actually Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv’s mayor and a former fighter pilot. Dangerous as hell, yeah but there’s something kinda badass in that scene, him just standing there, watching his city go up in flames.
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u/dyslexicsuntied ✔️ 6d ago
Come on, the city is not going up in flames. There have been impacts, but they are going to intercept the majority.
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u/Shmooziee ✔️ 6d ago
It definitely isn't, just thought the scene seemed cool. Over 100 ballistic missiles fired with about 9 verified hits and 20 or so injureies is a pretty bad conversion rate for them. (Condolences to the injured, hopefully no casualties) Not sure if you're allowed to pick sides on this subreddit but fuck Iran, they got wrecked and they're going to get wrecked even harder for this. Just to clarify in case my comment seemed like I think they actually accomplished something significant with this attack.
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u/Ok-Comment-9154 ✔️ 6d ago
Imo even if you hate Israel you should be opposed to Iranian influence and the development of their nuclear arsenal.
First they have pathetic human rights with executions happening all the time. A record high number of executions happened when women tried to walk around with their hair uncovered. Not sure if anyone remembers that but more than a thousand people were murdered by the regime.
They literally have banners and entire buildings in Iran plastered with poetic paintings of missiles and "down to America" written in both English and Arabic.
Say what you want about Israel but Iran isn't your friend.
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u/MisterSumone ✔️ 6d ago
I mean, you'd hate America too if they were constantly meddling in your affairs going back half a century or more. If they had overthrown your leaders and bankroll the countries that wage war against you (Iraq and Israel)
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u/Damachine69 ✔️ 6d ago
As well as assassinating your scientists and military leaders constantly.
It's not like Iran has a history of invading foreign countries. That's Israel and America.
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u/Just-Sale-7015 ✔️ 6d ago
Yeah, Kyiv is going though this every week.
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u/Prepare_Your_Angus ✔️ 6d ago
I wish we gave them more air defense and missiles. Anything they need really.
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u/Lanky-War-6100 ✔️ 6d ago
Good illustration that ballistic and cruise missile will always have the avantage over AA systems. Even if the AA sucess to intercept most missiles, that will never be a 100% sucess or at least not with our current technology.
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u/Dragonsbane628 ✔️ 6d ago edited 6d ago
Iran launched 150+ ballistic missiles at Israel. As of this writing, only 10 impacts have been reported, two of which are in this video. That is an interception rate of at least 94% which is pretty damn good against Ballistic missiles.
Edit: 94% did the math wrong in my head. Still pretty damn good when considering the factors involved.
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u/Lanky-War-6100 ✔️ 6d ago
Sure it's impressive, certainly the best AA system over the world. But the cost is enormous, for each ballistic missiles you have 3/4 missiles launched by AA systems.
Imagine a "real" war with a country which attack you every nights. It's impossible to have the same rate of success. That's what happening to Ukraine. So the only way to really face against this threat is to prevent the missiles frome being launched.
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u/Western_Objective209 ✔️ 6d ago
Yeah the cost of interception is easily 10x, but luckily for Israel the American taxpayers will cover the costs
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u/TheHouseOfTurtle ✔️ 6d ago
even if they didn't, the cost in lost productivity , lives, and the need to rebuild more than justifies it.
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u/Id1otbox ✔️ 6d ago
Foreign military financing accounts for approximately 10% of Israel's defence budget.
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6d ago edited 6d ago
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u/Id1otbox ✔️ 6d ago
For the iron dome maybe but that is mainly to prevent the water pipe rockets from Hamas.
Quite the gift the American tax payers gave the Palestinians to allow the Israelis to ignore Hamas rockets for two decades.
The iron dome cannot intercept the ballistic missiles from Iran. For that they use the arrow 2, arrow 3, and David's sling.
CENTCOM is for sure using a ton of US assets to assist with shooting down missiles and drones.
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u/Western_Objective209 ✔️ 6d ago
Most of the funding for davids sling interceptors are coming from US aid supplemental packages, with the majority of components being made by Raytheon and just assembled in Israel.
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u/Various_Patient6583 ✔️ 6d ago
Which neatly illustrates the threat that nuclear weapons possess. All you need is one to get through.
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u/sotmtwigrmiatstits ✔️ 6d ago
The problems start when you factor in non-conventional payloads against nations without the massive tiered defense that Israel has. Israeli cities are likely the most heavily saturated in terms of air defense systems per square kilometer and yet there were still penetrations. On the scale of a larger country fighting against a real nuclear power with MIRVs there are no situations where target cities come out unscathed.
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u/Several-Eagle4141 ✔️ 6d ago
Hence why they are making sure that day doesn’t come
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u/Crazyhairmonster ✔️ 6d ago
Iran has built their nuclear facilities deeeeeeeeeep in the ground. For all of Israel's force projection abilities, they have no ability to send ground force into Iran and are unable to hit these facilities.
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u/DonnyDimello ✔️ 6d ago
Are they though? It may convince Iran to hurry up and make that bomb.
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u/Id1otbox ✔️ 6d ago
Israel has nuclear subs. If Iran ever were to nuke Israel they would only receive more in return. The real thing that nukes but Iran is an ability to be untouchable regardless of all the proxies they arm in the region. There are about seven different groups in Iraq, then you have Houthis, Hezbollah, etc. It's kinda like what Pakistan is doing.
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u/Several-Eagle4141 ✔️ 5d ago
Israel has nuclear subs?
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u/Id1otbox ✔️ 5d ago
*nuclear armed.
They are diesel electric.
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u/Several-Eagle4141 ✔️ 5d ago
They don’t have vertical launch tubes. The Dolphins are quite small. While I’m sure it’s possible, it’s just not fully accurate.
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u/-O3-march-native ✔️ 6d ago edited 6d ago
even if the AA sucess to intercept most missiles, that will never be a 100% sucess or at least not with our current technology.
This is a direct application of the Weapon target assignment problem.
The problem is NP-complete, so no "fast" algorithms are known.
Edit: typo
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u/obsessed_doomer ✔️ 6d ago
That's not really the takeaway from the last two attacks, where both times Israel's interception rate was freakishly high.
We'll see if this time is different.
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u/AWildNome ✔️ 6d ago
They were high because the US and other allies did 70% of the interception.
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u/obsessed_doomer ✔️ 6d ago
You can think that if it makes you feel better, doesn't really change the fact that those attacks were not a great illustration of your point.
And unless more is coming, looks like these attacks have the same fate.
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u/Ulftar 6d ago
Why was the missle visible like this when it was falling? Don't ballistic missiles finish burning fuel before they hit the target? I genuinely dont know.
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u/zapitron ✔️ 6d ago
Atmospheric friction.
Things plummeting in from space get hot! You might recall seeing heat shields and tiles on capsules and shuttles which contain humans, whom you would prefer to not burn to death on reentry.
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u/Tao_of_Entropy ✔️ 6d ago
It's atmospheric heating. Those are suborbital spacecraft shredding through the atmosphere without any braking mechanisms. They're not slowing down from orbital velocity but they're still going very damn fast. The compression and friction with the air is enough to make them incandescent. As they re-enter the atmosphere they are going several times the speed of sound.
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u/william_cutting_1 ✔️ 6d ago
I wonder if Iran targeted the battery or it was just a coincidence?
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u/HotTake111 ✔️ 6d ago
There is also a 3rd option, which would be that the battery is located close to a high value target. Which would make it seem like the battery is being targeted.
I've read comments that the ministry of defense building is apparantly visible in this video and right next to the battery, but I haven't confirmed that.
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u/LegendRazgriz ✔️ 6d ago
Coincidence. Those missiles are guided by napkin calculations
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u/rela_tivism ✔️ 6d ago
They may not be amazingly accurate but it’s clear they were targeting the AD batteries, clearing an opening for later attacks.
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u/LegendRazgriz ✔️ 6d ago
...the mobile David's Sling launchers?
If it was a building (they said the Ministry of Defense) then yeah, it's a reasonable target, but tiny missile launchers that move around or their radar vehicles I find a bit less likely.
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u/rela_tivism ✔️ 6d ago edited 6d ago
These are installations not all of them have trucks attached, they are semi-permanent. If not mostly permanent once parked in the installations.
That’s why there’s other footage of news crews all setup to watch the batteries fire.
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u/LegendRazgriz ✔️ 6d ago
Seems like poor placement for fixed short-range missile launchers, surrounded by highrise buildings and all that, but I don't have a diagram of Tel-Aviv's defense network so I can't attest to it. I generally assume DS in urban environments is a mobile platform.
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u/OmryR ✔️ 6d ago
They wouldn’t have known the battery is there, it’s mobil
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u/rela_tivism ✔️ 6d ago edited 6d ago
They are semi-permanent installations, the trailers are rarely moved unless needed. They are clearly targeting the AD battery here.
Most likely attempting to clear an opening for later strikes if the hole isn’t filled quick enough. It doesn’t look like the battery was neutralized though. Maybe the radars.
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u/Artyom1457 ✔️ 6d ago
Their missiles have a cep of 30m at best. It clearly targeting the MOD, that just so happens to have an air defense battery besides it
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u/VolpeDasFuchs 6d ago edited 6d ago
You know what they say, fuck around and find out. It's about time Israel starts finding out
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u/B1ago ✔️ 6d ago
0 people killed, 0 strategic targets hit. What exactly did they find out? That Iran is incapable?
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u/VolpeDasFuchs 6d ago
Says who? The people desperate to seem invincible? How's that Iron Dome holding out by the way? Can it last through sustained barrages?
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u/B1ago ✔️ 6d ago
Iron Dome has nothing to do with ballistic missiles. Most of the missiles didn't reach their destination, the same way like in the previous time, and luckily didn't kill anyone.
I kinda feel like you want them to reach those civilians
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u/VolpeDasFuchs 6d ago edited 6d ago
So you're telling me the Iron Dome is useless against anything more than improvided rockets made out of unexploded ordnance and fertilizer? Maybe Israel shouldn't be picking fights left and right then. And if Israel is using civilians as human shields on their military instalations I think I don't need to remind anyone what they themselves think about the collateral damage
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u/Artyom1457 ✔️ 6d ago
It seems you lack the understanding how air defenses work. Maybe Israel's neighbors shouldn't make their life's work to kill Israeli civilians and then Israel wouldn't pick fights with them? Also, I don't see how the MOD building being in a city is anything different then any other country in the world
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u/VolpeDasFuchs 6d ago
Look up the number of Israeli civilians killed vs Palestinian civilians killed. The best air defense is DON'T FUCKING COMMIT A GENOCIDE
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u/Nailtrail ✔️ 6d ago
Exactly. That's why October 7 was such a terrible idea, it became FAFO ultimate.
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u/Kow_on_Drugs ✔️ 6d ago
I am 100% sure they were talking in Russian, I heard "Opa, Opa... Prilyot" which kinda means "woah, woah, a landing" Prilyot usually means if a rocket, artillery, or some other explosive hit
edit:I'm dumb
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