But this variant of the Hellfire missile, designated as the R9X, also comes equipped with a different kind of payload: a halo of six long blades that are stowed inside and then deploy through the ...

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 ... such as unmanned vehicles like the MQ-9 Reaper drone. In addition to allowing the aircrew to ...

The United States State Department's approval of a $150m (€140m) Foreign Military Sale to the Netherlands marks a strategic move to enhance the country's defence capabilities, fostering NATO ...

The "Hellfire" missile has been embraced as a US weapon of choice for decades. Its versatility makes it able to be launched from multiple systems. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Military ...

That points to the use again by the United States of the macabre Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile believed equipped with six razor-like blades extending from the fuselage that slices through ...

The JAGM is to replace the Hellfire on all the platforms that fire the older missile. The new missile is also expected to be used on unmanned vehicles, like the MQ-9 Reaper drone. During the ...

Unconfirmed reports say that three missiles in total were fired at a vehicle in Syria’s Idlib region near the border with Turkey. Who may have been inside the vehicle and who the intended target ...

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, contactors from General Atomics load hellfire missiles onto an MQ-1C Gray Eagle at Camp Taji, Iraq. [AP] For a year, U.S. officials have been saying that ...

Less than a year ago, a US drone strike - using a more conventional Hellfire missile - struck a white Toyota Corolla sedan in a Kabul neighborhood and killed 10 civilians around and near the car ...