It's a rainbow. The shockwave condensed the water vapor in the air into water droplets.

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Just a shockwave most likely. It being in a dusty desert area probably made it more visible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jEUHyQ2Qw (about 1:00 in) watch closely and you'll see similar.

Wouldn't an EMP have stopped the camera from filming almost immediately?

'Safe distance'

Seems like a fairly large and fast piece of debris comes hurtling right down the road they're on in the clip.

I think the flash to the left is a lens flare from the incoming projectile. It's clearly moving at very high velocity, and in a nearly vertical trajectory. Probably launched from high altitude. There are some secret low orbit platforms that exist and we know about the electromagnetic rail guns the navy has. I don't see anything that would indicate is something other than a kinetic weapon though. My money is on a rail gun projectile or a supersonic missile moving at around mach 5.

Edit: definitely a projectile weapon, not an IED. Look at the frame before the explosion. The top of the guard rail is illuminated by the incoming projectile. That's light from something glowing very hot- either rocket exhaust or atmospheric friction heating from ultra high velocity projectile, such as from an electromagnetic rail gun.

That's a hell of an explosion for an "improvised" device.

250 ton

Looks like I'm gonna have to be that guy.

All I'm saying is it's strange the (soldiers?) and surrounding environment seems mostly unfazed by that hoo hah.

Either an orbital accelerator or they've shrunk an accelerator to fit on a jumbo jet.

Edit: Now that I think of it, they might have been able to stuff one into one of those high performance dirigible hybrids Boeing and Lockheed were working on a few years ago. The explanation of those for loiter/recon missions was always suspicious.

Could have been a particle beam accelerated weapon. When they get stuff flying at relativistic speeds, the kinetic projectile doesn't need much mass to have devastating effect.

Seems more like a large IED to me. A visible shockwave like that is fairly normal when the atmospheric conditions are right.

That's not normal. The big light flash just left and before explosion is super weird.