THERMOBARIC HELLFIRE: The Defense Department's Defense Threat Reduction Agency is almost done with integrating its new thermobaric warhead on the Hellfire missile, according to Stephen Younger ...

June 16,2008: British AH-64 helicopter gunships in Afghanistan recently used a new weapon; a Hellfire missile with a thermobaric warhead. British commanders ordered the thermobaric Hellfires two years ...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has revealed U.S. forces in Iraq used, for the first time, a new, small missile capable of striking enemy forces hidden in bunkers and other hardened complexes ...

Russia’s Thermobaric Launchers Can Rain Hellfire at 10,000 Meters. March 19, 2021. By ... TOS-1A Buratino thermobaric rocket launchers rolled out at the Shikhany training ground in southeast ...

The U.S. Defense Department has approved an accelerated full-rate production run of Lockheed Martin's thermobaric Hellfire (AGM-114N) missile, allowing the company to fill a $90 million order from ...

As such, both the thermobaric Hellfire and the SMAW-NE are weapons that were specifically developed for the Afghan war. “Marines could employ blast weapons prior to entering houses that had ...

Western armies have plenty of enhanced-blast weapons, including a thermobaric version of the air-to-ground Hellfire missile, and a portable rocket-launcher known as an “anti-structure munition ...

Putting a thermobaric warhead on a Hellfire missile — which are most often carried by helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache — allows the technology to be used by forces that can act more ...

The United States used a new kind of missile for the first time in Iraq that can destroy the contents of the first floor of a building while leaving the rest of the structure intact, Defense ...

Six years ago I wrote about Britain’s tentative steps towards thermobaric weapons. This type of warhead, which differs from normal explosives in producing a prolonged and extremely destructive ...

Thermobaric weapons, or vacuum bombs, were first combat-tested by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and their use by Russia against civilians in Chechnya in the 1990s was condemned ...