Wow. An incredible turn at point-blank range. Displacedjim

Unreal. It does almost a 180 after launch.

All I saw was it hit then the drone crashed. I think what made the 180º turn was the drone. (to make a "º" symbol hold ALT and type 167 then release ALT.)

All I saw was it hit then the drone crashed. I think what made the 180º turn was the drone. You need to look more closely then. The missile is obviously the object that makes the 180º turn. The UAV is the object that has the yellow circle around it. The missile turns towards the UAV and strikes it, causing the explosion and resulting shower of debris. You can clearly see the drone flying along with the circle around it before the missile strikes it.

I've taken several looks at it. It looks typical of a flying decoy getting smacked down.

Why did the pilot use a very expensive missile to shoot down a slow moving UAV. Don't Israeli F-16s carry guns?

What a fellow you are, Heorot. In theory one could have flown after it in a Cessna and smacked it out of the sky with a frying pan, yielding an even more effective cost savings. However, since nobody will face the IDF in battle, and since the IDF does not shoot down civilian aircraft, this was probably the best way for the Python 5 to record a real-world, combat kill, which increases its marketability.

Also I dare say it safer to fire one short range missile than fire a burst of 30mm shells which could land God knows where on the streets below.

Yimmy, it was shot down over the sea. Not many streets there. There's a video around that shows it being recovered in pieces from the sea. Some of the parts ar surprisingly large given the small size and flimsiness of the UAV and the fact that Python is designed to shoot down fighters. Nichevo, my comment was tongue in cheek. The advertising blurbs can now say "proven in action".