Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’

Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by huffmsa on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:37AM (#19897843)

It has been limited in use and will continue to be because it takes up valuable pylon space for a single use.

Unless the MQ-1 is being deployed for a specific assassination, it makes sense to equip it with the AP hellfire, so it can possibly take action against an unexpected target of opportunity while loitering. You're probably not going to fire one of these against a Toyota Hilux or APC.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by frozen11b on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:02AM (#19897972)

Having served in the infantry in Afganistan you are dead wrong, and APC ot a technical ( heavy machine gun mounted on a pickup, traditionally a Toyota helix) a Helfire would definatly be fired at one.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by huffmsa on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:34AM (#19899058)

No no, I mean the bladed version wouldn't. But the traditional HE frag version would.

So it doesn't make sense to send the MQ out with the blades unless you're sure you're after a single target.

Edit: disregard. Video posted below looks like it's pretty effective.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by ourmandave on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:17AM (#19898059)

There's a Knife Missile testing video and the target is a test dummy in a remotely driven pickup on some strip of desert.

(I can't find a link. =( )

The missile goes through the driver's side roof and wedges out the passenger side floor.

The pickup was driven at variable speeds and it was just a crazy accurate as a standard hellfire.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by 6nf on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:24AM (#19898108)

Photos of a car supposedly hit by a knife missile in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMb-g5-aRjI

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by fjsolwmv on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:17AM (#19898501)

Thank for the photos. That video and The Sun are horrible.

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Re:Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’ by 6nf on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:16PM (#19904547)

Yea sorry pay no attention to the audio.

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