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CIA's Solution to Killing Too Many Civilians: Knife Bomb
Gizmodo ^ | 5/9/2019 | Matt Novak

Posted on 10/14/2019 6:17:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz

The CIA and the U.S. military have been using a new type of missile during some drone strikes in recent years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. What makes this new missile unique? It doesn’t explode and instead deploys sharp blades, hitting targets “like a speeding anvil” from the sky.

The new missile, which has never been acknowledged publicly before today, is called the R9X and is a variant of the Hellfire missile. But unlike a traditional Hellfire, the R9X is designed with six long blades that only emerge from the missile seconds before impact. The R9X, nicknamed the “flying Ginsu” by insiders, doesn’t contain a warhead. The goal, according to anonymous U.S. officials speaking with the Journal, is to reduce unnecessary casualties and hopefully only kill the person who was targeted in the first place.


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KEYWORDS: asseenontv; blades; flyingginsu; hellfire; knives; r9x; switchblademissile
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Flying Ginzu.

LOL

1 posted on 10/14/2019 6:17:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Does it work on a tomato?


2 posted on 10/14/2019 6:19:51 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Lazamataz

I prefer things that go BOOM


3 posted on 10/14/2019 6:21:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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It works on people, but, with this Amazing Sham Wow, you can clean the mess RIGHT OUT OF YOUR CAR!


4 posted on 10/14/2019 6:22:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: Lazamataz

It slices! It dices! It juliennes!


5 posted on 10/14/2019 6:27:38 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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I wanna see it cut an aluminum can first, then an tomato.


6 posted on 10/14/2019 6:29:34 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Lazamataz

Too much time and money on these developers hands. Scary.


7 posted on 10/14/2019 6:30:09 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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Order before midnight and get TWO for the price of one. And we’ll include the magic juicer.


8 posted on 10/14/2019 6:33:07 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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We call it the Slap Chop missile! Camera guy, you gettin dis? Lookitdis! It de-clothes the terrorist right when it hits! You'll definitely be eatin' more terrorist with dis! And it cleans right up, lookitdis, it opens like a butterfly, stick it in da dishwasher.


9 posted on 10/14/2019 6:36:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: Flick Lives
And after dat missile hits, you got blood all over da street. Just use dis, lookitdis, it gets blood right out of the pavement! What other mop does dis? NONE, you gotta have dis Sham Mop, it soaks up 20 times it weight in blood! It's made by da Germans, you know they make good stuff.


10 posted on 10/14/2019 6:39:26 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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to reduce unnecessary casualties and hopefully only kill the person who was targeted in the first place.

A $Million or so to kill one person? Sounds like a Biden family contract.

Whoever the target is, some boys down the street would go Gitter Done for a few thousand.

11 posted on 10/14/2019 6:40:55 PM PDT by meadsjn
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This reminds me of the scene in “The 300” where the men carry shields over their heads to protect against arrows.

Someone is days away from having real steel umbrellas.


12 posted on 10/14/2019 6:41:54 PM PDT by tbw2
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So, the idea here is that sharp flying cutlery is the safe way to go. OK.


13 posted on 10/14/2019 6:42:39 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: HighSierra5

It is a bomb with really big shrapnel.


14 posted on 10/14/2019 6:42:42 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: PGR88

Interesting to see their leader sliced and diced!


15 posted on 10/14/2019 6:43:24 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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“This reminds me of the scene in “The 300” where the men carry shields over their heads to protect against arrows.”

It kinda reminds me of the weaponry they’d give to Maxwell Smart.


16 posted on 10/14/2019 6:44:26 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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17 posted on 10/14/2019 6:45:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Lazamataz

18 posted on 10/14/2019 6:45:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: Lazamataz

Hassan chopped.


19 posted on 10/14/2019 6:46:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Lazamataz
The new missile, which has never been acknowledged publicly before today, is called the R9X and is a variant of the Hellfire missile.

BS. Maybe this particular model. But these knife missiles were discussed on FR threads a few years ago, along with pictures of their resulting kills, slicing and dicing targets with deployed knives.

20 posted on 10/14/2019 6:48:52 PM PDT by roadcat
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