Posted on 08/02/2022 10:47:47 AM PDT by McGruff
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Monday by America’s secretive and gruesome R9X Hellfire missile — which is also known as the “flying Ginsu.”
The strangest variant in the Hellfire family of missiles — built as a precision weapon of targeted assassination — the R9X’s most distinguishing characteristic is that it doesn’t explode and simply uses its weight, momentum and blade-like appendages to kill.
First revealed by the Wall Street Journal in 2019, the modified R9X trades the standard Hellfire’s explosive warhead for a halo of six metal fins that look like swords and are sharp enough to slice through concrete and steel on their way to a target.
The lethal payload has earned the R9X nicknames like “the flying Ginsu” or “the Ninja bomb” within the defense community.
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It slices, it dices, it chops....
Slice & Diced
Gives new meaning to silent but deadly.
How many times have we killed this guy?
i thought he was dead too
I would have preferred a bunker buster right on top of the house.
Why did they launch this - Afraid of waking the neighbors?
They sure are making a big deal out of this al-Zawahiri thing. Carefully stage managed meaningless Biden crap propaganda.
Smells like bullshit.
How many years did the US occupy Afghanistan?
Brandon cannot even fly the airplanes out, when Brandon turned tail and donated a trillion to Taliban, nad then he murdered our troops flown in to help with the chaotic evacuation, and then murdered a family with a missile who just wanted to leave, and NOW we are supposed to believe that a precision ninja bomb hacked Zawahiri to death because we are a precision assassination country.
Not buying it.
Trying to make the fake President look Presidential, before the mid-terms. It’s not going to work.
Heads up (or down???), patriots.
So can war evolve to a more humane form, where precision weapons are used to kill the political, military, business and technical elite of the adversary, instead of forming masses of conscripts using artillery and bombing to kill each other, civilians and destroy military and civilian infrastructure?
The killing of Zawahiri, Soleimani, grain tycoon Vadatursky, numerous Russian generals, Iranian nuclear scientists and missile engineers, and a variety of ISIS figures certainly points in that direction.
In a properly run war, Zelensky would be trying to kill Putin and his henchmen, and vice versa, without a lot of collateral killing and destruction.
Similarly, China and Taiwan would attempt to decapitate each other, rather than crudely mount invasions.
This would get us back to more honorable warfare, as practiced among nobles and their knights, prior to massed infantry tactics of the Thirty Years War and later.
Who ordered the Al-Zawahiri smoothie with chia seed and wheat-grass?
That’s what happens when you put Dan Aykroyd in charge of your weapons development program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIbyUdA_B4&t=1s
The Ginsu will git you.
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