Missile impacts in Israel

[u/SpriteSilver6]

[u/jabronified]

last time for iran mostly sent slow moving drones. but yes, the difference is these are ballistic missiles and a lot of them

[u/Neither-Luck-9295 → u/jabronified]

What's the difference between a ballistic missile and a regular one?

[u/jagedlion → u/Neither-Luck-9295]

A ballistic missile flies really high (as in, space high), and then just 'falls' to its target. In that way it travels a 'ballistic' trajectory, like a bullet would on the way down. (Though many can slightly angle on the way down to dodge defenses and better hit targets)

As a result they can be going crazy fast on their way down. Very hard to defend against. Easiest is to shoot them down on the way up, but they do that over friendly territory. If you have a good enough system, you can sometimes intercept them in space, but that still quite hard.

[u/SongFeisty8759 → u/jagedlion]

On the other hand although it's re-entry is fast (hypersonic in most cases), its ballistic path is more predictable. 

[u/PetakIsMyName → u/SongFeisty8759]

I’d just befriend all the spiders and ask them to make a giant web above my city.