R9X Hellfire missile used to take out al Zawahiri #hellfire #hellfirerx9 #usmilitary #usairforce

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. Designed to be launched from an unmanned drone, the 100-pound R9X deploys the blades through its skin while in flight. One US official described the weapon to the Wall Street Journal as a “speeding anvil” falling from the sky — with knives. To its proponents in the US defense community, the weapon’s design allows it to minimize collateral casualties, smashing into and slicing through a lone target rather than exploding in an expanding ball of hot shrapnel like a conventional Hellfire.

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