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Hellfire R9X Missile

Kumari Sonali

Hellfire R9X Missile:

The US military used its ‘secret weapon’ — the Hellfire R9X missile (‘Ninja missile’)– to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri on the balcony of a safe house in Kabul.

  • The Hellfire R9X is a US-origin missile known to cause minimum collateral damage while engaging individual targets.
  • It weighs about 45 kg and the missile can also be launched from helicopters, aircraft and Humvees.
  • The range of these missiles varies from 500 metres to 11 km.
  • Hellfire means Heliborne, Laser, Fire and Forget Missile
  • Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, had helped coordinate September 11, 2001, attacks that had killed nearly 3,000 people.

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