Little is known about the Hellfire R9X missile, which is designed to kill without explosives. The missile uses six blades that emerge from it just seconds before impact. The two Hellfire missiles that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Hellfire missiles ended al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's life in a safehouse balcony in a wealthy neighborhood in Kabul, ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Due to the reduction in civilian casualties and collateral damage, the R9X offers greater flexibility to commanders and drone operators. U.S. forces reportedly killed ...

The Defense Department reportedly employed a specialized missile that’s best described as a meteor full of swords to take out an ISIS-K leader in retaliation for the group’s brutal bombing of Kabul’s ...

The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, over the weekend was conducted by the CIA using what was likely the Hellfire R9X missile, according to the ...

The U.S. targeting of two pro-Iranian paramilitary leaders in Baghdad Wednesday is a significant escalation in the American response to the death of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan in January. Notably, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The bladed missiles are designed for urban environments, where more conventional explosives have a tendency to cause unacceptable collateral damage. The Hellfire ...

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