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The Hydra 70 rocket is an American made 2.75-inch (70 mm) diameter fin-stabilized unguided rocket used primarily in the air-to-ground role. It can be equipped with a variety of warheads, and in more recent versions, guidance systems for point attacks.
Where possible the system utilizes existing Hydra 70 components such as launchers, rocket motors, warheads and fuzes.The weapon bridges the gap between the Hydra 70 and AGM-114 Hellfire systems and provides a cost-effective method of engaging lightly armored point targets.
Launcher, 2.75-inch rocket, seven-tube, reloadable, reusable; 7-tube 70 mm (2.75”) rocket launcher XM157A 7-tube 70 mm (2.75") rocket launcher; not compatible with Mk 66 rocket motor; USAF LAU-32A/A XM157B XM157A variant; longer launch tubes, capable of further mounting an XM118 dispenser XM158/M158 Launcher, 2.75-inch rocket, seven-tube ...
During the live-fire exercise on July 11, two US Army AH-64 Apache helicopters fired AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rockets. The Hellfire missile is an air-to-ground, subsonic missile that ...
The system will use components from the existing Hydra 70 rocket, but differs from other upgrades to the Hydra 70 such as APKWS and LOGIR in that it is designed to be plug and play compatible with the Hellfire missile and use the M299 Hellfire launcher, increasing the load-out by up to four times. [2]
On Wednesday, General Dynamics announced that its Armament and Technical Products unit has won a pair of contracts from the U.S. Army for the supply and support of Hydra-70 air-to-ground rockets.
General Dynamics' (GD) Hydra-70 rockets can be mounted on most of the rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, which include the Apache, Cobra and F-16. General Dynamics' (GD) Hydra-70 rockets can be ...
M260 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, 7-tube, Hydra 70 M261 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, 19-tube, Hydra 70 M269 launcher/loader, M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)