MYSTERY MISSILE: Iranian Hypersonic Missile Appears to Make Evasive Maneuver During Attack

SEE IT: Video purports to show an Iranian missile successfully maneuvering around Israeli defenses

Israel says it managed to intercept 99 percent of the Iranian missiles and drones launched during Saturday night’s attack, but video emerged that raised speculation that at least one of these missiles had maneuvering capabilities to evade Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome.

The Iranian Kheybar Shekan ballistic missile carried out an evasive maneuver, rising quickly and descending again before impact to bypass Israeli defenses, The Iran Observer posted.

“Iran Missile system final boost and hop around the Iron Dome system was really a surprise to Israel and Allies,” one commenter posted on X.

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Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA intel analyst, told Judge Andrew Napolitano that it is likely that Iran caused significant damage to an Israeli airbase.

“You can see there’s video of the hypersonic, or the ballistic missiles hitting the airbase. It’s a distance. But it’s not one. It’s at least three or four. And they’re coming in one after another. And actually one of them comes down, and then you see a missile — an air defense missile coming up and this thing takes evasive action and this thing goes down.”

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview Sunday that Iran was clever in its retaliatory attack over the weekend because it sent a clear message to Israel and the U.S. that it has the military capacity to strike any target it wants in the region.

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview Sunday that Iran was clever in its retaliatory attack because it sent a message to the U.S. and Tel Aviv that it has the military capacity to strike any target inside Israel.

“All the Israelis have to do is look at a map, look at where the Iranian missiles hit, and understand that the Iranians hit that which they were aiming at and there was nothing Israel could do to stop those missiles from reaching their target,” he told British MP George Galloway’s “Mother of All Talk Shows.”