Hellfire

Replica Missile exhibited in the Albany Club, Redruth Cornwall Hellfire Missile manufacturer Lockheed Martin USA Originally designed as an anti-tank missile in the 1980s, the Hellfire has been used by military and intelligence agencies over the last two decades to strike targets in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere. The precision-guided missiles can be mounted on helicopters and unmanned drones and are used widely in combat around the world. More than 100,000 Hellfire missiles have been sold to over 30 counties The U.S. military has routinely used Hellfire missiles to kill high-value targets, including a senior al-Qaida leader in Syria last year, and al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awake in Yemen in 2011. The RAF who use Hellfire missiles claims to have only caused a single civilian fatality in the fight against IS – during the bombing of a “group of terrorists” in a vehicle in March 2018 in Syria’s Euphrates Valley. However, concerns about that assertion have lingered for several years after US admissions and other leaks. The US says 1,437 civilians have been “unintentionally killed” in 35,000 airstrikes. Cost US$150,000 per missile