{"id":27300,"date":"2025-09-11T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27300"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:09:55","slug":"hellfire-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hellfire-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellfire Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hellfire Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A never-before-seen video has left Washington in disbelief after it appeared to show a US Hellfire missile bouncing harmlessly off an unidentified flying object (UFO) off the coast of Yemen. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hellfire Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>air-to-ground, laser-guided, subsonic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tactical missile with significant <\/span><b>anti-tank capacity.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can <\/span><b>also be used as an air-to-air weapon <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">against helicopters or slow-moving fixed-wing aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used by the <\/span><b>United States military<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as 30 US allies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>United States began developing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the A<\/span><b>GM-114 Hellfire in 1972 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to address the Army\u2019s requirement for a helicopter-launched antitank missile to counter Soviet armor formations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Air-to-Ground (AGM)-114 provides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> precision <\/span><b>striking power against tanks, structures, bunkers,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and helicopters.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hellfire missile is <\/span><b>capable of defeating any known tank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world today.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the missile of <\/span><b>choice for several kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as the MQ-1B Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and MQ-1C Grey Eagle.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Hellfire Missile <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AGM-114 missiles measure between 1.63-1.75 m in length, 0.178 m in diameter, and weigh 45-48.5 kg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have a <\/span><b>range of 7-11 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while carrying a <\/span><b>payload of 8-11 kg.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile flies at<\/span><b> subsonic speeds t<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o a maximum of Mach 1.3 (450 m\/s).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is propelled by a<\/span><b> single-stage solid-propellant solid-fuel rocket motor.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile can be <\/span><b>guided<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> towards the objective<\/span><b> either from inside the aircraft or by lasers outside the aircraft.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>AGM-114R <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">multipurpose missile is the <\/span><b>latest in the Hellfire II missile range.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also known as the <\/span><b>Hellfire Romeo,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the missile integrates the capabilities of all previous Hellfire II variants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be<\/span><b> launched from<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> several <\/span><b>different kinds of fixed-wing aircraft <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>helicopters, surface ships,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and military ground vehicles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It uses a <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">semi-active laser guidance system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and an <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">integrated blast fragmentation sleeve warhead <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to engage targets that previously needed several Hellfire variants to destroy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/trending\/us\/neverbeforeseen-video-shows-us-hellfire-missile-bouncing-off-a-ufo-what-the-hell-is-that-101757499499362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellfire Missile is an air-to-ground, laser-guided, subsonic tactical missile with significant anti-tank capacity. 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