Knife Missile, the Hellfire R9X...!

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Knife Missile, the Hellfire R9X...!

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Hellfire R9X, a missile with no explosive warhead, but six knife blades (!!!)...recently used to take out a Hezbollah leader...are there Spyderco bugs on those blades? Are they wharncliffe blades? We need to know.
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Re: Knife Missile, the Hellfire R9X...!

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Reportedly, a car struck by an R9X...looks like some slicing happened.
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Re: Knife Missile, the Hellfire R9X...!

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The bigger question is when the Hellfire R9X Sprint with Magnacut blades will drop. Hopefully Kristi will give us a heads-up. Personally, I can't wait to test how the brown Sharpmaker rods work on the six blades. How many Al Qaida leaders will it slice through before becoming dull?


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RustyIron wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:21 am

The bigger question is when the Hellfire R9X Sprint with Magnacut blades will drop...

^ LOL!

Word on the street is that ceramic blades are being fitted to the upcoming R9X-HIC model, with a Chicago-legal version featuring tiny 2.5" blades planned. A non-locking version is on the drawing board for use in the UK, and a California-legal version made entirely of ethically-sourced, woman-owned, solar-powered, carbon-offset, wheelchair-friendly, plant-based foam rubber to follow. The latter doesn't work at all (flies apart when the jet reaches 50 mph on the runway), but it's "too ethical to fail," so it's being developed anyway at the cost of billions of taxpayer dollars.
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Re: Knife Missile, the Hellfire R9X...!

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Uhrr, yep. I'll take three thousand California Specials. Bill me at the Pentagon. Work on gettng the cost up for the next batch. Rhodium/platinum plating maybe?

By the way. My Nephew is graduating pre school next week. Am accepting gifts for his "college" fund. Heh.
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The amazing Backyard Scientist pioneered this concept, according to him. He joked in one of his follow-up videos that the D.O.D. owes him money for this idea hehe.

He made a few different versions of it and the most recent one has a crazy entertaining video about it
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Hilarious! Thanks for posting that.
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Definitely, this puppy isn’t a joke.

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