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NEW - @WSJ confirms the @CIA & @DeptofDefense have a new "secret" missile - the R9X, or "flying Ginsu" - which kills a selected target with 6 blades, but no explosive payload.
-- "To the targeted person, it's as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411 …pic.twitter.com/iM87WUFLhg
#pt: The R9X, or "flying Ginsu," is said to have been used only twice, globally.
One of those times was on Feb 26, 2017, when it killed al-Qaeda deputy leader Abu Al-Khayr al-Masri in #Idlib, #Syria.
See the image I tweeted from the scene, that day:https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/835942701665304576 …
#pts: The #R9X quite clearly causes no damage to the surrounding area, massively minimizing the risk to civilians.
Look at the targeted vehicle itself - the body of the Kia is entirely intact, save for the penetrated interior, right through the roof:https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/835937245483909121 …
The U.S used its rare R9X or "flying Ginsu" missile to kill the leader & chief trainer of #HTS's "Red Bands" special forces unit - an Algerian known as Abu Ahmed.
The missile was incredibly precise: tearing a hole right through the center of the vehicle but causing no explosion.pic.twitter.com/bBdpswDYZ3
NEW - It looks like the U.S. used another specialist R9X “flying Ginsu” missile today - reportedly targeting an #AlQaeda target traveling between #Azaz & #Afrin in northern #Aleppo.
No explosion; precision strike straight through center of vehicle. Interior shredded.pic.twitter.com/QFLNHHABBf
Yeah I need to go back in time and coach my middle school self to say "That doodle is proprietary and Ratheon can have it for 20 million dollars."
I did up a whole distributed camera system for airplanes in ‘93 for a CAD project - shoulda patented it cause that’s what NG as a subcontractor for F-35
Fancy blades can improve the area of effect - don't want to miss the target because you fell right into the gap between passenger and driver and just got an arm.
Seriously, I want to know how many millions of dollars some contractors came up for “inventing” this... because a flying missile with huge knives is the kind of thing any group of drunk infantrymen will come up with, and usually pretty early in the night.
There should have been a “got” in there.
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