The low collateral damage variant of the Hellfire missile, with pop-out blades instead of an explosive warhead, was first ...

To describe the R9X missile honestly is to step into a Verhoevian satire of war reporting. The R9X is a variant on the Hellfire anti-tank missile. It is a machine that creates "kinetic effects" by ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Instead of an explosive charge, the missile uses several pop-out blades to chop up targets and prevent civilian casualties. The Hellfire missile was originally ...

The precision-guided missiles can be mounted on helicopters ... Unlike other models of the Hellfire, the R9X doesn't carry an explosive payload. Instead, it has a series of six rotating blades ...

With six knives that eject from its nose, the Hellfire R9X was designed to minimize casualties while targeting a high-profile individual. Its recent use to kill a Kataib Hezbollah leader in ...

Defense contractor Mach Industries announced it is working on a new kind of cruise missile called Strategic Strike for the ...

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 ...

To reduce civilian casualties, the US air campaign has sometimes relied on “knife bomb” Hellfire R9X missiles, also known as the “ninja missile”, which features an array of blades and no ...

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 ...

The US military is finding itself in an extremely compromised position after a Hellfire missile, originally sent to Europe for NATO training exercises, found it's way to Cuba, the Wall Street ...

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.