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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 ...
On 31 July 2022, at 6:18 a.m. local time, a U.S.-operated drone fired two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles at al-Zawahiri while he was standing outside on the balcony of his house. Al-Zawahiri was killed, but the other occupants of the house were unharmed. [3]
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 ...
An Israeli AH-64 Apache firing an AGM-114 Hellfire missile. Date: 11 [1] –13 [2] November 2018 (2 days) Location: Southern Gaza Strip Israel. ... Immediate aftermath.
Sometimes called the "Flying Ginsu," the missile's full name is the AGM-114R9X Hellfire, or just the R9X. It's a version of the U.S.'s widely-used Hellfire missile that uses six blades instead of ...
A viral social media post claims that Ukraine recently fired U.S.-made missiles at Russia, accompanied by a video purportedly showing the aftermath of such an attack. Verdict: Misleading While ...
On 3 November 2002, a CIA-operated Predator UAV fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile at a vehicle in Yemen carrying Abu Ali al-Harithi, a suspected planner of the bombing plot. Also in the vehicle was Kamal Derwish , a.k.a. Ahmed Hijazi, a U.S. citizen and four suspected Yemeni terrorists.
The missile was reportedly shipped from France to Cuba by mistake in 2014. Cuba returned it to Florida on Saturday. Cuba returns hellfire missile it mistakenly received from the US