r/PublicFreakout • u/SpriteSilver6 • Oct 01 '24

🌎 World Events Missile impacts in Israel

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u/Significant_Swing_76 Oct 01 '24

Gives the average person a good idea of the speeds we are talking about (Mach 5+) when talking about ballistic missiles in their terminal faze.

And hopefully a better idea of why ballistic missiles are a pain to intercept.

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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.