Newly surfaced footage shows Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps testing a new generation of jumping mines, buried explosives that launch upward out of the ground and detonate in midair instead of on impact. The video captures a series of bright flashes against a clear sky, followed by expanding smoke plumes and bursts of airborne fragments, with trees and stone walls visible on the ground below to mark the test site. The weapon, known as Jaljaleh, is built specifically to threaten helicopters and other aircraft flying low enough to drop troops, closing off what has traditionally been a safer approach altitude for airborne assaults. Developed from prototypes first shown off in 2024, the mine draws heavily on Iran's earlier YM-J-AHM anti-helicopter systems, which used a similar launch-and-detonate concept against low-altitude threats.

According to details that have circulated alongside the footage, the Jaljaleh can reach targets flying as high as 350 meters, detonating with a blast radius of about 5 meters and scattering fragments across a 15-meter zone, enough to seriously damage or destroy an aircraft caught in range. Unlike traditional ground mines that wait for direct contact, this bounding design is meant to create an invisible kill zone in the air itself, forcing attacking forces to either fly higher, where they become easier to detect and intercept, or risk flying straight into the mine's blast pattern. The concept builds on a defense tradition Iran has invested in for years, aimed at denying low-altitude air corridors to better-equipped adversaries without the cost of full-scale air defense systems. While the footage demonstrates the system working as designed in a controlled test, it remains unclear how widely Iran has deployed the Jaljaleh or how it performs under real combat conditions.