NEW – @WSJ confirms the @CIA & @DeptofDefense have a new "secret" missile – the R9X, or "flying Ginsu" – which kills ... version of the well-known Hellfire missile, the weapon carries ...

The U.S. Navy rapidly added new C-UAS (Counter-Unmanned Aerial System) capabilities to the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships in the form of Longbow Hellfire missiles. The U.S. Navy has introduced a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon killed a Kataib Hezbollah leader in downtown Baghdad last week using using a weapon that employs six ...

In this case, the U.S. carefully chose to use a type of Hellfire missile that greatly minimized ... including the "knife bomb" or the "flying Ginsu." That potential use of the R9X, said Klon ...

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.