The US killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a precision airstrike this month. The circumstances of the strike suggest the US used the R9X variant of its Hellfire missile. The R9X is basically a ...
A drone strike that killed two senior commanders of an al Qaeda-linked terror group in northwestern Syria likely employed a unique variant of the beloved Hellfire ...
May 25, 2019: In early 2019 the U.S. Department of Defense revealed some details of a recent and infrequently used version of the AGM-114R9 Hellfire II missile, one with a non-explosive but still very ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The R9X is a specific type of AGM-114 Hellfire, a precision-guided rocket originally developed in the 1980s by Lockheed Martin as ...
The Pentagon’s secretive R9X Hellfire missile may be more akin to a meteor full of swords than a traditional munition, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less effective. According to multiple reports, the ...
[Asia Economy Military Specialist Yang Nak-gyu] Attention is focused on the Hellfire missile ‘AGM-114R9X (hereafter R9X)’ that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri (71), the leader of the terrorist organization ...