The Hellfire missile is touted as being able to destroy any known tank in the world. It's a powerful missile that can be ...

In some cases, the markings on the missile have been blurred too. In either case, JAGM and Hellfire look almost indistinguishable in the photos, considering that JAGM shares the same motor and ...

What isn't as understood by the public are the missiles' variants, one of which has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. The Hellfire R9X, commonly known as the "Knife Bomb," has a lot in ...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Monday by America’s secretive and gruesome R9X Hellfire missile — which is also known as the “flying Ginsu.” The strangest variant in the Hellf ...

In this case, the U.S. carefully chose to use a type of Hellfire missile that greatly minimized the chance of other casualties. Although U.S. officials have not publicly confirmed which variant of ...

The missiles, probably modified Hellfire R9Xs, were fired from an unmanned CIA drone in what the White House called “a precise tailored airstrike." U.S. officials described al-Zawahri as a co ...

In this case, the U.S. carefully chose to use a type of Hellfire missile that greatly minimized the chance of other casualties. Although U.S. officials have not publicly confirmed which variant of ...

Two Hellfire missiles ended al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's life in a safehouse balcony in a wealthy neighborhood in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, at 6:18 a.m. Sunday, a senior ...