The US has created a high-precision missile

The rocket has six blades.

In the United States have developed high-precision missile R9X, which is able to hit the target with blades that are ejected from the housing.

Citing current and former US officials, the newspaper notes that this secret system is a modification of missiles Hellfire. It weighs more than 45 kg and has no explosive warhead. Also rocket has six blades, which are emitted from the body in just a few seconds before the collision with the target.

The WSJ sources also say that the missile has a length of about 1.5 m and “is used infrequently, only when there are special circumstances”. For example, such circumstances may be necessary blows to terrorist groups.

The development of high-precision missiles were launched in 2011. It was assumed that one of its prototypes can be used for the elimination of the leader of the group “al-Qaeda” Osama bin Laden.

Yet, according to the WSJ, this high-precision weapons were used at least two times. The first time the missile was used by the CIA in February 2017 in Idlib. The second in January 2019. Then, the us military because it eliminated the terrorist involved in undermining the US destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.

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