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The AGM-114 Hellfire is an American missile developed for anti-armor use, [6] later developed for precision [7] drone strikes against other target types, especially high-value targets. [8] It was originally developed under the name " Heliborne laser, fire-and-forget missile", which led to the colloquial name "Hellfire" ultimately becoming the ...
In 2020 Croatian Air Force has achieved full operational capability for AGM-114 Hellfire missiles on its OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters after first ordering the missiles in 2017. [26] During a training flight over the Adriatic Sea in 2020, a Croatian OH-58D struck the water and two pilots lost their lives. [27] [28]
Hellfire, a 1949 western; Hellfire, a TV movie produced by Roger Corman; Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima, a 1986 documentary film; Hell Fire, a 2012 horror film "HellFire", an episode from the first season of MacGyver
On 16 February 2001 at Nellis Air Force Base, a Predator successfully fired three Hellfire AGM-114C missiles into a target. The newly armed Predators were given the designation of MQ-1A. In the first week of June 2001, a Hellfire missile was successfully launched on a replica of bin Laden's Afghanistan Tarnak residence built at a Nevada testing ...
On 8 March 2017, Detroit fired a vertical-launched AGM-114 Hellfire missile, the first such launch from a littoral combat ship. [17] The Hellfire system is meant to engage small vessels and strike targets on land. In January 2020, Detroit conducted freedom of navigation and intelligence-gathering operations in the Caribbean Sea. [18]
A laser designator is a laser light source which is used to designate a target.Laser designators provide targeting for laser-guided bombs, missiles, or precision artillery munitions, such as the Paveway series of bombs, AGM-114 Hellfire, or the M712 Copperhead round, respectively.
English: An MQ-1 Predator, armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, piloted by Lt. Col. Scott Miller on a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt) (U.S. Air Force Photo / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)
Examples of LOAL weapons include the Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile and later versions of the AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missile. The older method of launch has retroactively become known as lock-on before launch (LOBL), although this term is not commonly used and is a "backronym" that distinguishes it from the LOAL method.