Hellfire is an air-to-ground, laser guided, subsonic missile with significant anti-tank capacity. It can also be used as an air-to-air weapon against helicopters or slow-moving fixed-wing aircraft.
The Army and Navy are testing a missile to replace the vaunted Hellfire. Pilots trying out the missile have spoken highly of its capabilities. More testing is slated before the missile is deployed ...
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, contractors from General Atomics load Hellfire missiles onto an MQ-1C Gray Eagle at Camp Taji, Iraq, on Feb. 27, 2011. For a year, U.S. officials have been ...
The US military is finding itself in an extremely compromised position after a Hellfire missile, originally sent to Europe for NATO training exercises, found it's way to Cuba, the Wall Street ...
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From the Wall Street Journal (emphasis ours): A modified version of the well-known Hellfire missile, the weapon carries an inert warhead. Instead of exploding, it is designed to plunge more than ...
is equipped with 6 blades instead of explosives on the existing Hellfire missile. It is known to have been jointly developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. military.
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