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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 ...
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)
AGM-154 JSOW - American precision-guided glide-bomb. [2] AGM-114 Hellfire-2 - American ATGM, for anti-tank and limited anti-ship use, helicopter-launched, purchased in 2013. [2] AGM-88E AARGM - American anti-radiation missile, purchased 2022. [2] GBU-15 - American precision-guided glide bomb, ordered for use prior to F111C retirement. [2]
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]
Types of missiles: Conventional guided missiles. Air-to-air missile; Air-to-surface missile; Anti-radiation missile; Anti-ballistic missile; Anti-satellite weapon
The AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) is an American military program to develop an air-to-surface missile, to replace the current air-launched BGM-71 TOW, AGM-114 Hellfire, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles. [4] The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps plan to buy thousands of JAGMs. [5]
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.
Robot 17 (Robotsystem 17) is a Swedish anti-ship missile based on the American AGM-114C Hellfire, further developed by Bofors to work against sea targets and be transported and fired on land.