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Israel Scores Exoatmospheric Hat Trick, Deleting 3rd Iranian Missile In Space
Published 1 month ago
This short clip shows an Israeli missile defense system- likely the vaunted Hetz (arrow), destroying an Iranian missile while outside the Earth's atmosphere, bringing Israel's tally to three known intercepts of an object in space. The Hetz interdicted and destroyed the incoming missile at the highest and fastest point in its flight, known as apogee. This is a technically masterful way to tell an attacker to get bent. While it's certainly an interesting thing to consider that "kinetic warfare in space" is already a matter of history made in our time, it's also wild to think that it's been seen with the naked eye, from Earth.