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Secret U.S. missile kills terrorists with knives instead of explosives
wreg.com ^ | 5/11/2019 | unknown

Posted on 05/12/2019 8:05:28 AM PDT by rktman

Ever heard of a missile that doesn’t explode?

That, the Wall Street Journal reports, is a key feature of a secret weapon adapted by the US military.

It’s a modified version of a Hellfire missile that hits pinpoint targets but doesn’t explode on impact, meaning reduced damage and less risk of civilian casualties.

The weapon, which the Journal likens to a “speeding anvil” falling out of the sky, is known as R9X. But it also has a nickname, “the flying Ginsu,” inspired by its hidden ring of six blades, which emerges just before impact and shreds anything it meets.

(Excerpt) Read more at wreg.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bombiehana; chopchop; flyingginsu; hellfire; r9x
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Just don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Chopchop!
1 posted on 05/12/2019 8:05:28 AM PDT by rktman
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The knife-thing is kind of silly. A two hundred pound projectile dropping on your head at 3000 FPS is quite sufficient.


2 posted on 05/12/2019 8:09:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: rktman
Ever heard of a missile that doesn’t explode?

It's called a "bullet."

3 posted on 05/12/2019 8:09:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: rktman

Interesting.

But it has to be ultra-precise to drop it on the terrorist.


4 posted on 05/12/2019 8:10:58 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: rktman

Just use a bomb casing filled with concrete.That will vaporize a car and what ever is in it.its been used before.


5 posted on 05/12/2019 8:11:58 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: rktman

Space based rail guns.
Shoot a pellet at unbelievable speeds and take out a single person.


6 posted on 05/12/2019 8:13:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Innovative

I still prefer bombs that go boom. As you’ve alluded to the other option is extreme preciseness. At least with boom you can me off center mass and still decimate the target and the families supporting the terrorists within a couple city blocks. Boom rockets are additionally great deterrents for anyone witnessing the boom.


7 posted on 05/12/2019 8:14:28 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: puppypusher

Well, there was an article posted about concrete being one of the deadliest things on muvver erf so there’s that...........


8 posted on 05/12/2019 8:14:48 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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9 posted on 05/12/2019 8:17:56 AM PDT by gaijin
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10 posted on 05/12/2019 8:18:31 AM PDT by gaijin
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11 posted on 05/12/2019 8:19:26 AM PDT by gaijin
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The problem solution is not new weapons

The problem solution is trying to not meet the new definition of war crimes and barbarian. Killing wives and children set purposely as defensive tactic is far different from murdering captive POW’s.

If wives and children are killed by the bombs, the tactical practice of using them for shields will end.

The pacifists molly coddling of the Europe loving leftist American lawyers must end if there is to be peace. War and killing is the route to peace


12 posted on 05/12/2019 8:21:50 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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I remember a long time ago, maybe in WWII, the U.S. was experimenting with dropping flechettes.


13 posted on 05/12/2019 8:27:56 AM PDT by yarddog
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“Essentially, the weapon is employed when a regular airstrike on a high-value target would pose a risk to innocent bystanders.”

There are NO innocent bystanders!

It’s well past time to take the gloves off and fight a war by killing people and breaking things.

You don’t want to have your country reduced to flaming rubble? Don’t allow terrorists scumbags to live in your country. It’s a simple concept, and the one that won WW2.


14 posted on 05/12/2019 8:28:14 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: bert

Yeah, we have “rules of engagement”, they don’t.


15 posted on 05/12/2019 8:33:39 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
SOMEONE in the USAF is a Turkey bowhunter, you can be sure of that.

This is exactly the same concept, just more expensive.

Here is a broadhead arrowtip used to hunt Turkeys:


16 posted on 05/12/2019 8:34:24 AM PDT by gaijin
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What a waste of a perfectly
Great Hellfire Missile!
I also don’t think that’s
a “Reaper” drone.


17 posted on 05/12/2019 8:48:06 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: rktman

Paging Mr Coyote...


18 posted on 05/12/2019 8:53:49 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Flechette and sabot rounds are not new. Tank rounds and other ordinance can be selectively used to apply to a target. HE is not always the best choice.


19 posted on 05/12/2019 8:55:31 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Well I guess it’s not secret anymore.


20 posted on 05/12/2019 8:56:51 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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