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submitted 7 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.

A leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi capital. All three of them died.

The Pentagon said the commander was responsible for directing attacks on American forces in the region.

The US has linked the militia to a drone attack in Jordan that killed three US troops last month.

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Got him with a R9X Hellfire.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

Hit him in traffic while moving and only took him and his merry band of assholes out. Thing is fucking wild.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

The R9X doesn't have a warhead. It uses kinetic energy. So there really is a small destruction radius. The hellfire is laser guided, so it will lock onto a moving target.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I know. Dude below you posted what it is.

I also remember the Al-Qaeda dude they slap-chopped.

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Ah, the good 'ol slap chop!

(no, this isn't a meme, this is how the R9X Hellfire works)

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

the ninja missile. It slices. it dices. it doesn't go boom.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Remotely manned

AKA... Unmanned.

fitted with lasers

Laser seeker. Laser is on the aircraft.

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hey, hey, don't ruin my dreams of a missile that kills with swords and lasers. What are we spending our money on if we don't even have a missile that shoots lasers?

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That's why we need to petition congress to spend more on defense. They want you to think we already have sword laser missiles, but the poor military industrial complex barely has enough money for swords and lasers and missiles by themselves, let alone all 3 in one sexy package.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Every time I see this thing all I can think is how much it must suck to be targeted by that. Like it's such a remote and precise way of assassination that it delivers a message nothing other than "we will find you, and we will kill you."

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That would be great at chopping vegetables

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Oh that must be the knife missile Robert Evans was advertising for a while on behind the bastards. I was picturing something more like an explosive missile with knives around the explosive.

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