VIDEO Iranian missile intercepted at last moment over Israel after first test fails: 'Stunning'
A spectacular moment was captured last night in the sky above Israel, during a missile attack launched by Iran. Israel's air defenses pulled off a spectacular interception, managing to destroy the missile in the final moments before it hit the ground.
“One of the most stunning intercept videos I've ever seen,” Fabian Hoffmann, an international expert on nuclear strategy, defense policy and missile technology, wrote on X.
In the video clip shared by him, it can be seen, shot from the camera of some tourists most likely (I speak in French), how a first interceptor missile launched by Israel misses the target, and a second missile manages to intercept the winter projectile at the last moment, very close to the ground.
One of the wildest intercept videos I have ever seen.
First glowing projectile: very likely a Stunner interceptor launched from David's Sling, climbing towards the incoming MRBM warhead.
Second glowing projectile: the incoming MRBM warhead descending towards the ground, evading… pic.twitter.com/0yltugPA8J
— Fabian Hoffmann (@FRHoffmann1) March 18, 2026
“A Tamir interceptor approaches the missile's warhead on a near-horizontal trajectory and manages to destroy the target”
“The first luminous projectile is most likely a Stunner interceptor launched by the David's Sling system, ascending towards the warhead of an intermediate-range ballistic missile. The second luminous projectile is the ballistic missile's warhead descending towards the ground, avoiding the interceptor,” writes Hoffman.
“The third bright projectile coming in from the right: most likely a Tamir interceptor launched by the Iron Dome system, which approaches the missile's warhead on an almost horizontal trajectory and manages to destroy it. In fact, one can see how the interceptor's flight path starts with a very smooth climb, before reversing and flying towards the ground in an also very smooth descent,” says the expert.
He argues that the trajectory and intercept “must have occurred at the extreme limits of the system's safety envelope.”
