Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’

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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