The description sounds like something from a movie or novel:
The unique weapon that took out SoleimaniU.S. drones normally carry Hellfire missiles, armed with explosive warheads. However, the CIA also has in its inventory a special-purpose Hellfire missile, modified to carry an inert warhead. A Predator drone could launch this missile from an altitude of 22,000 feet, well outside the range it could be heard by the target. Called the Hellfire R9X, it contains a hundred pounds of metal, uniquely designed to punch through a vehicle’s rooftop, much like a meteor.
After penetrating the rooftop, the R9X transitions into a killing “blender.” It is equipped with six sword-like blades that immediately deploy and rotate, slicing and dicing through anything — human or not — with which it comes into contact. It is appropriately known within the CIA as the “Flying Ginsu.”
Thus, as photographs of the destroyed vehicle reveal, Soleimani and Muhandis were not killed in a fiery explosion; they were hacked to death in milliseconds. This is why no bodies, but plenty of body parts, were recoverable at the attack scene. Visible among these was Soleimani’s severed hand, recognizable by the distinct ring he always wore.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-se ... -soleimani
