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I love this - it's long overdue, but I'm glad the technology is here, and being used. Hellfire missiles WITH SWORDS... https://sofrep.com/news/the-us-just-used-a-secretive-hellfire-missile-full-of-swords-to-take-out-terrorists-in-syria/?utm_campaign=SOFREP SitRep 12%2F7 (QKi5rM)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Active On Site&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJyZ3JoYXJ0bGV5QGhvdG1haWwuY29tIiwgImtsX2NvbXBhbnlfaWQiOiAiSFZTM0NhIn0%3D The US just used a secretive Hellfire missile full of swords to take out terrorists in Syria by Alex Hollings 2 days ago Posts emerging on social media over the past few days show the aftermath of an unusual airstrike: A minivan carrying a suspected terrorist just 10 miles from the site of the recent raid on ISIS leader Abu Al Baghdadi’s compound, was hit by what appears to be a U.S. Hellfire missile… but instead of an explosion that would have certainly killed civilians in the area, the missile deployed swords capable of killing everyone within its strike radius. According to reports from Syria, two suspected terrorists inside the van died. There were no other casualties. The weapon seemed to be specifically aimed at the front passenger seat of the vehicle. Local witness reports claimed that the bodies inside were “mashed.” This isn’t the first reported use of such a weapon. Reports had also emerged this past May of similar airstrikes killing other terrorists, including Al Qaeda’s then-number two leader, Abu Khayr Al Masri. The Wallstreet Journal quoted an unnamed defense official at the time as saying that the missile had thus far only seen operational use about a half dozen times. The modified hellfire missile, dubbed the AGM-114 R9X, was reportedly designed for use by the CIA. The program started under the Obama administration: Its goal was to find a way to conduct highly accurate airstrikes that eliminate concerns about collateral damage, since, instead of blowing up a suspected terrorist, you can simply crush and slice him to death with a weapon covered in six swords and moving at around 1,000 miles per hour. Obviously the missile has to be incredibly accurate given its very small kill radius. This is most likely accomplished through laser targeting carried out by overhead drones or troops on the ground. It’s also not at all uncommon for UCAVs, like the MQ-9 Reaper drones, to carry Hellfire missiles, thus making it possible that this strike was launched via drone. Hellfire missiles carry their explosive ordnance (one of three variants) in the middle portion of the platform’s body that measures around 18 inches. It stands to reason then that the Hellfire R9X’s blades are likely around that long; this would give the missile a kill radius of a bit more than three feet. It’s unclear exactly when in its flight path the missile deploys its blades. As Tyler Rogoway at The Warzone points out, there are a few different ways to pull that off to the same effect: They may deploy through slots; or as a result of an external body panel ejecting shortly before impact; or the deployment may be kinetic, spurred by the missile’s contact with a solid surface. Nick Waters‏ @N_Waters89 May 9 I remember puzzling over these cuts for ages trying to work out what had hit the car of Abu Khayr al-Masri, deputy leader of Al-Qaeda. Turns out it was a Hellfire missle with fucking swords attached to it. In any case, the platform seems to be proving that it’s an accurate and viable option for highly accurate targeting from a great distance. With a range that likely exceeds four miles, this “ninja missile” is as close to a sniper-shot as you can pull off from four miles out under the wing of an unmanned aircraft.

AND... Since we're talking about BE THE MACHINE... You need to be GANGSTA about it, NOT fuk around, and REALLY BE THE MACHINE...

Since we crushed this Hellcat thread, too, let's just get to it... Dirk is the one that lead this derail - his comment started it...

Ah, you got it in there, brother, and that's what's important - Army-wise, I had a 12-mile roadmarch "technique" that always worked. Timed 12-mile roadmarches with a FAT ruck were a common thing, and they always sucked. You just had to figure out a way to make it suck LESS. King-Sized Snickers, Budweiser (back in the day) and Extra Strength Midol. Oh, Sony Walkman with some AC/DC, too. The "technique" that worked for me was JAMMIN'!!! Sony Walkman in an ammo pouch, turned up to 11... Mile 4, eat an Extra Strength Midol (keeps swelling down, in your extremities - hands and feet - they swell, in a timed roadmarch, pushing yourself - it's a blood-flow thing, and Midol helps, shiit you not. Mile 6- pull a Bud from another ammo pouch and slam it. Mile 8- kill that King Sized Snickers, and eat another Bigass Midol... Mile 10 - kill another Bud. Mile 12 ends it all, before you ever realized it was the end. AC/DC is still maxed out... record times, on alot of roadmarches. Most of the time, I'd run/jog the whole thing, and people thought I was nuts... Be the machine... Once you're in their head, you can't lose, and you can't fail. You only defeat them...

That's ALOT bigger than a gun, though... I was on my ass on this one... Should have been a month, at the max... Not 13 months, or whatever it was... Me =

It's pretty hard to thread-jack a 200+ page thread, brother. Damn near impossible. The true hard-core professionals set this one up. PERFECTLY. I'm still not sure that they knew how perfectly they were interacting with each other, but they set up the Perfect Storm, for a wiseass comment... I was just the blind monkey that found that banana, luckily...

It was expertly set up by the true professionals, my brother - I just took advantage of the timing of the comments that happened before me. Those guys rock, and set this up PERFECTLY... Whether they knew it or not...

Not buying the lighter projos for this one, brother. Not at all. Lightest that I will load will be Hornady 88gr ELD-Ms. Projo weight makes a huge difference, at distance. When you get the speed-on-the-heavies up there. It's like 77gr Matchkings in Mk262 ammo - and any heavy 5.56 that you load - I'm in the Hornady 75gr HPBT camp on those, over the Sierras... If they're not going 2750fps on that load, you'll never see the magic out of them. Get them to 2750fps - and you see it... rainbows through your scope, stars align, and you make hits on shiit that is deemed "unpossible" from the mere mortals... Those 5.56 heavies need the speed... This is no different - it's still the 5.56 heavies - it's just the REAL HEAVIES... through a 6.8 SPC case... I can get these 88gr Hornady ELD-Ms to 2750fps, with CFE223 powder, through a 1:7" twist barrel... by the book. You better believe I'm gonna get there, too, safely. That's gonna be a magic load, right there... Don't get sucked in to that Sierra 95gr MatchKing on this cartridge. You need a 1:6.5" twist barrel to run those long, heavy fuckers... 1:7" won't stabilize those big bitches...

It does, when the buffer weight is right, the spring is right - it's a longer travel over a carbine extension, and it's a smoother system. Buffer weight has to be right, and the spring has to be right, though.

FUCKIN' PULLED IT!!! Well done, men...

Burt Gummer is my hero. I kid you not. Rambo is a distant second place, because Burt Gummer FUCKIN' RULES!

It's a great Cerakote color, but make SURE you add enough hardener to it to keep if "flat" and not "semi" or "gloss". If you make that mistake, it looks like a big gold tooth. I kid you not. I screwed up painting an EOTech of mine, and the damn thing came out looking like that big gold tooth. I had to strip and paint that thing three times to get it right. Make Burnt Bronze a FLAT finish when you do it...

I had Larry's gun for a year, from the time I met up with him and picked it up... It was one thing after another with me, and I kept putting it off. Hell, I had it over a year, no joke. I just went from one personal issue to another, back to back, and just didn't get it done. I had some real-world weather issues, last winter in AZ, and the rain just wouldn't stop - if it wasn't actively raining, the humidity sucked, for painting. When I was ready and capable to paint it - the weather told me that it wasn't gonna happen. This was a bad combination of planning on my part, one-thing-after-another on my part, and personal shiit on my part. I knew I had to make this right, by Larry...

Valid point, brother...

This is great news, man - fantastic. I thank you for the results of what it took. These .260s are a bitch to figure out, but we're getting there... This info goes into my "mental album" of gas port diameter information on these guns.

Which is probably not overgassing, at all, in reality. How many of those guys that are saying this, because they're using 3.8oz H1 buffer weights and weak springs? They're not even close to being overgassed - but they ARE under-recoiled, in a big way... Not a question for you, Jim - you already know it, man. Just food for thought, at the amount of compromises that are made in this platform, because companies want to do their own thing, and think that "their own thing" is the way to go... They're so far off-base it's not even funny. JP Rifles makes Race Guns, too - that's what they're know for. Race Guns are for the Gamer Crowd - how many rounds can you keep on target in a few seconds on target, keep your score up, have heavy projectiles going "xx" speed (Power Factor calculation) - and beat the other competitors... Race Guns are not hunting or fighting rifles, they're not truck guns, and you don't beat the shiit out of them... Race Gun parts have their place, but it's not everyplace... Just like you woudn't take an F-Class competition rifle to a Combat Zone. It wouldn't last out there, in the combat zone... Might be accurate as fuk - until you have to strap it to a rucksack and kick it out the door or tail of a helicopter, on a questionable landing zone, in the middle of the night, in snow, at 8,000 ft valley base elevation...

That's just speed in the ram, right there. Gotta go slow/smooth, since we're upsizing the necks. I split a few when I started, but caught that quick. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Haven't split one since.

Right on.

Damn, that's a good lookin' short .308, brother. You nailed that one, right outta the park.

This is such an easy cartridge to make, brother. Pass your .223/5.56 brass through the 25-45 resize/deprime die, and you're done. Instant 25-45 brass. It's that easy. My best accuracy results were with Sierra GameKings in the 90gr flavor - excellent accuracy. I'm using RL-7 powder and CCI-400 primers. Nothing special. It's a great round, and I need to put it to a coyote, it's driving me bananas... I still need to sort out my load with the Barnes 100gr TSX projectiles. If I can make that work, it'll be one badass coyote-smashing load.

@392heminut, HELL YEAH, BROTHER!!! I still can't believe I did that whole gun, and didn't take a damn picture... Sorry for costing you a new truck, brother...

Yeah, straight from DPMS. My first DPMS stripped lower is a K serial number. It's true. Every stripped LR-308 lower they ever sold is a K. If it doesn't have the K - it was a complete gun. Go down to question #12 if you doubt what's being told to you - this is the actual DPMS website. https://www.dpmsinc.com/Frequently-Asked_ep_55-1.html

I have a very close friend, that was a dirtbiker as a kid, and through his adult life. He's my age. Jeff doesn't have a right arm. He lost that arm, as a kid (11 years old), riding the powerline trails, with a buddy on the back of his dirtbike. There was a downed power line that he didn't see, and he hit it. The amps traveled through his body, into the guy on the back of the bike - it blew that guy off the back of the bike. The amps left Jeff's body through this right arm, and blew his right arm off. Right off his body. He never quit, never stopped riding, and never stopped racing MX - and raced for 18 years with one arm. He raced motocross with one arm. He moved the throttle over to the left side, moved the front brake over to the left side, pointing down. He still had the clutch lever out forward. You had to roll the throttle forward, instead of twisting it back. He won races like that, including jumping all the jumps on the track - with one arm - and running everything through the left hand, controlling that bike. I rode his "then current" bike one day in 2012, and it was all I could do to get the thing into 3rd gear - once I was in 3rd gear, I almost killed myself on that damn thing - and it was a Kawi KX-450. Don't ever quit...

Shiit, I was afraid of that. That's the shifting foot. I can't give up much right now, but I'll do something in the meantime, monetarily. For the future, if that foot has to go, I'll buy the kid a Pingel Air Shifter, and install it on his bike - and come over there to do it for him. He's not gonna lose that passion for riding, never will. Missing a Shifter Foot is no reason to stop, either. That Pingel Air Shifter will still allow that, from shifting by hitting a button on the bars. Let him know that, when the time is appropriate. Next - be a mechanic, with a missing limb? There was a guy on the Army Golden Knights (parachute demo team) that had a bad accident, mid-air, on a jump - collided with another jumper - he lost his legs. He fought the Big Army BS, fought to stay in, and continued jumping with the Golden Knights - legless. Again, when the time is right, have the kid research Dana Bowman. He'll find all the info. This is just the beginning: http://www.danabowman.com/dana-biography.php Next - you NEVER QUIT. Have this kid research Derek Weida. Knee shot apart by an AK round in a house raid in Baghdad. He went through 12 surgeries, with them trying to fix that leg, and he kept telling them to just take it off so he could get on with his life. One surgeon finally gave in, and took the leg off. This is him now: https://derekweida.com/about-us/ Don't ever quit... Rolling over and giving up is what sissies do. When the time is right, let me talk to this kid, on the phone...

Everytime I hurt and Motrin won't make it go away, I eat an Extra Strength Midol. Seriously. If it will crush a woman's menstrual cramp pains, it'll damn sure fix what men bitch about...