Warzone/The Drive: This Is Our Best Look Yet At The Shadowy Hellfire Missile With Pop-Out Sword Blades
These missiles keep taking out terrorist leaders overseas by ripping through their vehicles and mortally slicing them up.
Video has emerged online that shows the remains of three AGM-114R9X missiles used in a recent strike on Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Syria, providing the best look yet at the innards of this mysterious version of the venerable Hellfire, which has six pop-out sword-like blades in lieu of a traditional explosive warhead. The War Zone was one of the first to report on a previous photograph that gave us our very first look at the inner workings of this weapon. Visible markings, which include the R9X designation, seen in the new video also offer additional details.
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Update: Photos show devastation unleashed on terror leaders by sword-carrying ‘Ninja bomb’ (Military.com)
WNU Editor: There are reports that this missile was used again in Syria on Saturday .... Was the US secretive 'ninja' missile used again in Syria Saturday? (Jerusalem Post).
2 comments:
Anti-aircraft missiles have had this sort of device for many years, the warhead creating an exploding "donut of death" which cuts into the targeted aircraft. It would be fairly easy, I expect, to adapt this into something like the Hellfire.
Impressive. Very impressive. And sort of a slap in the face as opposed to an explosive. Both effective of course but using a big knife so accurately, quietly, and no messy collateral damage. This "tool" is something else.
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