New York Post

R9X Hellfire missile used to take out al-Zawahiri is a precision ‘ninja bomb’ that uses blades to kill

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Monday by America’s secretive and gruesome R9X Hellfire missile — which is also known as the “flying Ginsu.” The strangest variant in the Hellfire family ...
THE WEEK

How the U.S. killed Ayman al-Zawahiri — and only al-Zawahiri — with a R9X 'flying Ginsu' missile

When President Biden confirmed Monday that a U.S. drone strike had killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri at a villa in Kabul, Afghanistan, he said the operation had been "carefully planned" to kill ...
Task & Purpose

Why the US probably used a missile full of swords to take out Al Qaeda’s leader

With Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri now dead in a surprise drone strike in a well-to-do neighborhood of Kabul, details are coming out about how the operation was carried out. And it looks like the ...
AOL

'Flying Ginsu': A closer look at the missile that took out a US target

The U.S. targeting of two pro-Iranian paramilitary leaders in Baghdad Wednesday is a significant escalation in the American response to the death of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan in January. Notably, ...
Yahoo

How the U.S. killed Ayman al-Zawahiri — and only al-Zawahiri — with a R9X 'flying Ginsu' missile

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The R9X is a specific type of AGM-114 Hellfire, a precision-guided rocket originally developed in the 1980s by Lockheed Martin as ...