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Hellfires have a selection of available warheads. The newest ones have multi-purpose warheads that have different selectable explosive patterns for different types of target. Even physically twisting the missile to get better hit probability on an air target:

https://www.twz.com/usaf-testing-mutant-missiles-that-twist-...

This area of defense technology has been moving very quickly in the past few years, many assumptions the general public holds about military weapons and tactics are long obsolete.



Hmm cool but are these actually hanging under the wing of a drone or fighter yet? This all looks very experimental. Not daily bread & butter.


Yes, JAGM/Hellfire II/SPEAR are flying. The US military has started deploying weapons much more quickly as of late.




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