r/PublicFreakout Oct 01 '24

🌎 World Events Missile impacts in Israel

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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 Oct 02 '24

These are going slow actually, they'd be much faster ay Mach 5. These are slow and on fire, no sonic boom

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u/rsta223 Oct 02 '24

These are well supersonic in this video, and likely still hypersonic (they were definitely hypersonic at the initial stages of re-entry). Compare how fast these look compared to airliners, which are going 80+ percent of the speed of sound and look like they're crawling by comparison.