I see some confusion in the comments, so I would like to add that these are flak rounds being fired into the sky. It's easy to tell by watching the straight line trajectory of the rounds going up... and of course the random pattern of their explosions. One is able to easily determine the altitude and approximate trajectory of marginally supersonic rocket salvos and approximate location with radar (or even more easily than that, if they're the ones sending the rocket salvos, themselves...), and then train their flak cannons on that area. Flak rounds are configured to explode at the expected altitude of an incoming threat, indiscriminately dispersing shrapnel, in an attempt to disrupt or destroy said threat.
This isn't actually the iron dome, in this video, as many are reporting, insofar as "Iron Dome" is not a general term to describe Israel's layered air defense strategy. The "Iron Dome" is a rocket-based system, looks very different than this, and is not concentrated. Also, the rockets are launched from ground-based tubes primarily located far outside of the city. Flak is typically a penultimate layer of air defense, close in weapons systems or similar strategies (like the Phalanx) being the ultimate.
Excellent post. Much more fun to read than retards ranting about CGI.
Yet we still get the privilege of paying for it all.
I take back everything I said.
I watched the video again a number of times, tracing the trajectory of each of the projectiles, and some of them appear to turn in mid air, so I'm not entirely sure any of my comment is correct. It's possible that I'm confusing myself because there are too many things in the air to really track accurately with your eyes, but it is possible that these are rockets coming from the ground and not flak.
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