{"id":6296,"date":"2020-09-14T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2020-09-14T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:48:01","slug":"a-hellfire-missile-with-fing-swords-attached-to-it-pentagon-unveils-new-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"'A Hellfire Missile With F***ing Swords Attached to It': Pentagon Unveils New Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. military and the CIA reportedly have a new tool in their arsenal: a bomb that doesn’t explode, but deploys sword-like blades to kill or maim its human targets.<\/p>\n

The R9X Hellfire Missile, which\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported Thursday has been used at least twice\u2014once by the Pentagon and once by the CIA\u2014is a new weapon that is intended to reduce civilian casualties. The missile does not have an explosive warhead, but rather uses its weight and “a halo of six long blades” that deploy before impact to shred through whatever is in its path.<\/p>\n

“To the targeted person, it is as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky,” said the newspaper, citing an official familiar with the missile.<\/p>\n

Nick Waters, an award-winning journalist and researcher, noted that while previous suspected drone strikes by U.S. forces overseas had produced mysterious results, perhaps the R9X\u2014”a Hellfire missile with fucking swords attached to it,” he said\u2014provided a possible explanation.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Journal<\/em> was able to identify two strikes that used the R9X.<\/p>\n

The new missile was apparently developed to fulfill an Obama-era directive to reduce civilian casualties from the American drone war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A U.S. official told the\u00a0Journal<\/em> that the bomb could, in theory, solve what the official described as “right seat, left seat” problem: killing a driver or passenger while letting the other person live.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, as the\u00a0Journal<\/em> pointed out, “Two militants reportedly were killed in the February 2017 strike.”<\/p>\n

Security experts and observers were bemused at what\u00a0Task and Purpose<\/em> deputy editor Jared Keller called “an anvil covered in swords.”<\/p>\n

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“This knife missile seems like something ACME Corporation would design to kill Road Runner,” said\u00a0Defense News<\/em> naval warfare reporter David Larter.\u00a0“The payload would either be knives or it can deploy a goofy, over-sized white-gloved hand that bops you in the head with a hammer.”<\/p>\n

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The new weapon is a “kinder, gentler hellfire missile,” said\u00a0Aki Peritz, a professor at American University’s School of International Studies. “A precision sky-anvil.”<\/p>\n

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The U.S. military and the CIA reportedly have a new tool in their arsenal: a bomb that doesn’t explode, but deploys sword-like blades to kill or maim its human targets. The R9X Hellfire Missile, which\u00a0The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday has been used at least twice\u2014once by the Pentagon and once by the CIA\u2014is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}