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This Photo Proves How The Hellfire Missile That Uses Blades Instead Of Explosives Works
After the most recent known use of the AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile, a weapon that uses blades instead of explosives to kill its target with minimal collateral damage, literally smashing and slicing through them, evidence of exactly how the bizarre weapon works has come to light. Imagery from the scene of the attack, located less than 10 miles from where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in Syria, shows what appears to be the core of the weapon and its deadly appendages. It appears to be a gruesome, but stunningly effective device.
The image, seen at the top of this story, shows a thick central hub structure that would act as a penetrator with six swing-out skeletonized blades. Basically, anything in the radius of the blades would die.
[...] The payload area is roughly a foot and a half long and let's say the swords are roughly the same length, this would provide about a three and a half foot diameter kill zone, which is similar to what we see in the images of the vehicles that have been struck. It is the ultimate precision air-to-ground weapon—surgical both in metaphor and application.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:59AM
Any 14yr and older male is _defined_ to be a combatant, and therefore a legitimate target per the US rules of engagement.
Sick fucking shit. Would love to see all those in charge who approved of this shit be sent to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc., for trial and punishment. Set a precedent like that, and those sadistic fuck tards would think twice about going on a murder rampage.