Death from above

"We don't need to look like scared kittens. We are still the number one super power in the world. Time to start showing the world what we have, and what we are capable of."

Just when you think you have seen everything. Everything possible to kill the baddies in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Because it is not being talked about very much as of late, here is a news flash. History was made this past week in Afghanistan. As we know, within 24 hours of the suicide bombing which killed 13 of our heroes, and 170 innocent Afghan citizens, we retaliated by killing a suspected mastermind ISIS K baddie. We used the tried and tested MQ-9 Reaper Drone, armed with AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles. Well, sort of like that. And this is where the history thing comes in.

One of the problems with the Hellfire Missile is collateral damage. It was after all, first designed to be a tank killer. Big boom, lots of shrapnel and damage. The brain trust (probably in DARPA), figured out if we just took off that very lethal warhead, and put something less lethal on the missile instead, there would be less collateral damage. Bingo! They came up with the R9X variant of the Hellfire Missile. Better known as the Ninja Missile.

As the missile is about to impact the target, four bladed "darts" are released. The theory is these darts will shred the vehicle the baddie is riding in, and cut the baddie up into ribbons. And with no collateral damage. As we know, when we took out the Iranian General (Qasem Soleimani) using the old fashioned Hellfire Missile(s), there was barely enough left of him to put into an ashtray. And it was a very big "boom". With the new missile, that will not happen.

But wait a minute. Did we not have a second car of baddies just taken out with a Hellfire? And reported stated there was a big "boom", and were some collateral casualties. True. And it was a Ninja Missile. But the baddies were carrying a lot of explosives, maybe to make more suicide bombs. That is what caused the explosion and collateral casualties.

My vote on how to use this nifty new weapon is very simple. For ISIS K, we are assuming each and everyone was complicit in the suicide attack on the airport. Thus, all should be considered targets by a Ninja Bomb. Next, we should inform the Taliban that we want our equipment back. They choices are as follows: 1) Return our equipment to us, no questions asked, or 2) Buy the equipment they stole from us (never happen) using most current value, or 3) we will destroy our equipment by using "death from above" methods. Leaving them $80B of our state of the art equipment, is NOT an option.

There it is. We don't need to look like scared kittens. We are still the number one super power in the world. Time to start showing the world what we have, and what we are capable of.