AGM-114 Hellfire Appreciation

[Parabellum01]

Hello everybody,

I thought I'd start a thread on one of my favorite missiles of all time. The AGM-114 Hellfire.

Does anybody have good pictures, cutaways and or personal experience?

Specifically, I'm interested in the missile's development, production and evolution over time.

For starters, I thought you might like this here.

Thanks,

Para

 

[ArsenioTheMissileMan]

Here's some from my archives.





And one from my time aboard CVN-71
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[TwitchyKitty]

Nice seeker photos!
Here's the family tree too!

 

[US-Subs]

I don't see perhaps the most interesting Hellfire variant, the AP "Sniper" version with the blades?

I have nearly no HF items, though I was once happy to trip across a dud missile on one of the impact areas I was working, I believe it was in California. An HE missile, it had hit hard, and the seeker section had separated, allowing for a simple souvenir. Otherwise I only have a shaped charge slug, recovered from a test bed target point.