Iran uses domestically produced hypersonic missile for the first time, local media reports
Iran's Fattah hypersonic missile is carried past an Iranian flag during a military parade in the south of Tehran, Iran, on September 21
Iran used its Fattah 1 hypersonic missile for the first time during its attack on Israel on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Iranian media outlet Mehr News.
The Fattah is considered Iran’s first domestically produced hypersonic missile.
Iran’s military unveiled the weapon last year, saying it can travel up to 15 times the speed of sound and is capable of “targeting missile defense systems.”
Israeli air base hit by Iranian attack, new videos show
Two new videos show a number of Iranian missiles striking Nevatim air base in southern Israel based on geolocation analysis by CNN. Iran previously targeted the same base during a similar April 13 attack.
How CNN geolocation worked: The videos were filmed from Ar’arat an-Naqab, a town just south of the air base, in southern Israel’s remote Negev desert. CNN was able to geolocate the videos by matching the buildings seen in the videos to archival photos of the town and the airbase.
What’s seen in the videos: As the camera pans skyward, dozens of rocket trails can be seen falling toward the base. Sirens are heard wailing in the background.
Then, in both videos, a single interceptor missile can be seen rising from a battery near the base before it travels out of frame.
The control tower at the air base can be seen in one of the videos as the missiles begin to impact and explode. Smoke begins to rise across the area of the base, as the sound of more impacts is heard, and more explosions are seen.
Without daylight, however, it’s unclear what exactly was hit at the base.
CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the videos, but did not immediately receive a response.
After the April 13 attack, Daniel Hagari, Israeli military spokesperson, confirmed that some of the hundreds of projectiles fired at Israel did hit the base, causing minor damage to the infrastructure there, including in an area near the runway.
Nevatim remained fully functional then, Hagari said at the time.
Iranian missile appears to hit less than a kilometer from Mossad headquarters in videos verified by CNN
A video has emerged on social media which appears to show an Iranian missile exploding less than a kilometer (or 0.6 miles) northwest of the Mossad headquarters in the fringes of Tel Aviv.
CNN geolocated the video and found it was filmed from a high-rise apartment building in Herzliya, less than 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the headquarters of the Israeli intelligence service.
CNN geolocated another video appearing to show the impact of this missile in a nearby parking lot. The video shows a large crater, with dirt from the impact covering nearby vehicles. The crater is just a few hundred meters away from a cinema complex.
CNN cannot independently confirm the intended target of the missile, or that the crater was caused by the impact seen in the video shot from the apartment. However, it is likely that this was the cause, based on the missile’s trajectory.
