The CIA and the Pentagon have supposedly developed a top-secret weapon to kill enemies. The Wall Street Journal reports the missile is designed to assassinate a single terrorist by crushing them or slicing them up. The Ninja bomb is even said to be able to target individuals in cars and inside buildings without harming others.
What is a Ninja bomb?
A Ninja bomb is a secret R9X missile designed to destroy individual terrorist targets.
The main purpose of a ninja bomb is not to harm surrounding civilians and only kill the target rather than exploding.
The weapon is, at its base, a Hellfire missile — a 100 pound, five-foot air-to-ground weapon used by US armed forces.
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The Hellfire explodes on impact and reduces targets to blasted, burnt wreckage.
The Ninja bomb has six blades that deploy out of the sides of it as the weapon hits the target.
The terrifying weapon could potentially kill a car’s front seat passenger without harming the driver.
As well as cars, the weapon could also be used on buildings which could collapse and kill others if hit by an explosion.
The hidden blades has even earned it a nickname – “the flying Ginsu” – a nod to popular kitchen knives sold on American TV in the 80s.
The weapon has been developed since 2011 by the CIA and the Pentagon.
R9X missiles are thought to have been used on targets in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.
Some of the victims include Jamal al-Badawi, who was accused of being behind the 2000 USS Cole bombing and Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masri, the Egyptian al Qaeda No 2.
The Ninja bomb was believed to be considered as a “Plan B” to kill Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan.
The weapon was reportedly born from Barack Obama’s emphasis on cutting civilian casualties in America’s long-running counter counter terrorism campaigns in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
Mr Obama said in May 2013 he would not order any strikes unless there was “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured”.
The weapon is said to have been made because terrorists had adapted to the American hesitancy to strike by increasingly hiding among groups of women and children as human shields to avert strikes.
Both the CIA and Pentagon declined to comment on the weapon to the Wall Street Journal.