The stretched and bulked up UAV now used by the Israeli Defence Forces, Hermes 900, is able to carry and remotely fire two AGM-114 Hermes missiles. Work will take place in Orlando, Florida. Range is officially listed as 9 km/ 5.6 miles. It’s integrated with the mast-mounted Longbow radar on AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters, and AH-1 Cobra family attack helicopters have been tested with different add-ons that would give them similar capabilities. Work will be performed in Orlando, FL with an estimated completion date of Dec 31/14. and final report, 2008. I’m really scared. The GAU-8 has less explosive power but it has a big burst dispersion. [26] The RMG is a further derivative of the RPG-26 that uses a tandem-charge warhead, whereby the precursor HEAT warhead blasts an opening for the main thermobaric charge to enter and detonate inside. [10], In confinement, a series of reflective shock waves are generated,[11][12] which maintain the fireball and can extend its duration to between 10 and 50 ms as exothermic recombination reactions occur.
January 20/20: Engineering Services Lockheed Martin won a $9.8 million contract modification for engineering services in support of the Hellfire Missile and Joint Air-to-Ground Missile.
The upper limit has been demonstrated strongly to influence the ignition of fogs above pools of oil. A HELLFIRE MISSILE. May 16/16: The UAE has been cleared to purchase 4,000 AGM-114 R/K Hellfire missiles after the sale was cleared by the US State Department.
Work under the modification will take place in Orlando, Florida and is scheduled to be completed by the end of February next year.
The fuel–air explosive (FAE) is one of the best-known types … The Longbow Hellfire is the principal anti-tank missiles for the AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter.
The term thermobaric is derived from the Greek words for "heat" and "pressure": thermobarikos (θερμοβαρικός), from thermos (θερμός), hot + baros (βάρος), weight, pressure + suffix -ikos (-ικός), suffix -ic.
Even then, think about that blossoming square, twenty feet by twenty feet.
They want to stop going to funerals — and being bombed even as they mourn. Comb. [30] The Iskander-M theatre ballistic missile can also carry a 700 kg (1,540 lb) thermobaric warhead.[31].
Ship-based solutions are beginning to proliferate, even if purchases and installation remain slow. The fuel–air explosive (FAE) is one of the best-known types of thermobaric weapon. The ‘pinpoint’ accuracy of the missile is starting to blur and the ‘surgical’ strike beginning to blunt. [48][49] The Russian government later admitted to the use of the RPO-A during the crisis.
And, as I’ve noted, there are no air-raid warnings, no anti-aircraft defences and no air-raid shelters either. The Hellfire is the primary air-to-ground short-range precision guided missile for US helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and is in service with many other nations. The Pentagon announced that a 50-member investigating team was on-site collecting DNA samples and other evidence. A new AGM-114R “multi-purpose” Hellfire II is headed into production/ conversion. Hellfire I/II missiles are the USA’s preferred aerial anti-armor missile, and are widely deployed with America’s allies. The US Army awarded a $170m contract to Lockheed Martin in July 2006 for Hellfire II missile systems. How can there be any imminent threat if there are no troops on the ground? The Hellfire is the USA’s preferred aerial anti-armor missile.
A CLAYMORE MINE. Dec 20/12: A $114.1 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to buy various models of Hellfire II tactical missiles in containers. In the UK there have only been 6 articles describing the weapon and of these 4 are dedicated to explaining the introduction of the missile by the UK armed forces. If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. FBO.gov sets the contract’s limits as: “HELLFIRE II FY11-14 production contract requirements for a maximum total quantity of 24,000 HELLFIRE II missiles in containaers, conversion of a maximum total quantity of 1,800 HELLFIRE II missiles from one model to another HELLFIRE II model, and production of a maximum total quantity of 5,832 HELLFIRE II spare parts, consisting of 40 different national stock numbers (varying quantities).”. This is not exactly putting ‘warheads on foreheads‘, but ‘Brandon’ explains that the crew is also required to identify a secondary ‘abort’ target. This rarefaction effect has given rise to the misnomer "vacuum bomb". Atom [39], The AGM-114N Hellfire II, first used by U.S. forces in 2003 in Iraq, uses a Metal Augmented Charge (MAC) warhead that contains a thermobaric explosive fill using aluminium powder coated or mixed with PTFE layered between the charge casing and a PBXN-112 explosive mixture. With the exception of mentions in the defence trade press the missile has received even less coverage in the worldwide press. Since the most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic, undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the cloud as with most chemical agents. Hellfire Missiles AGM-114 have been manufactured by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Martin Marinetta (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin[2]) and originally by Rockwell[3]. To go ahead and drop that missile so that we don’t harm the children So usually we’ll choose an alternate site a couple hundred feet to a couple of hundred yards away. International law defines a combatant and thus a legitimate target in terms of direct participation in hostilities and an imminent threat. A conventional missile such as the Hellfire explodes, creating a deadly blast radius and turning objects into lethal shrapnel.
Transparency and accountability, for them, are abstract problems that have little to do with the concrete fact of regular, systematic death.’, And Madiha adds this: ‘The technologies to kill them move faster than the bureaucracies that would keep more of them alive: a Hellfire missile moves at a thousand miles per hour; transparency and accountability do not.’. It was designed during the 1970s as a multimission, anti-armour, precision attack weapon that would be effective against tanks, bunkers and structures. Chamayou reports that the Hellfire missile has a ‘kill radius’ of 50 feet (15 metres) and a ‘wounding radius’ of 65 feet (20 metres); the GBU-12 Paveway II has a ‘casualty radius’ of between 200 and 300 feet (within which 50 per cent of people will be killed). Darez Khan's brother Shawol Khan was interviewed and he confirmed that the three were out collecting scrap metal[29]. Estimated to value around $150 million, the foreign military sales contract will involve the transfer of 1,000 rounds from existing US military stocks, as well as the provision of logistics support services and other related program support. HELLFIRE (initially named the Helicopter Launched, Fire and Forget Missile) is a short-range, laser- or radar-guided, air-to-ground missile system designed to defeat tanks and other individual targets, while minimizing the exposure of the launch vehicle to enemy fire. FAM, of course, was GPS or laser-guided. If ethics is classically about how to live well and die well, he suggests that necro-ethics is a doctrine of ‘killing well’.
In response, Soviet scientists quickly developed their own FAE weapons, which were reportedly used against China in the Sino-Soviet border conflict, and against the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Laser guidance can be provided either from the launcher, such as the nose-mounted opto-electronics of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, other airborne target designators or from ground-based observers, the latter two options allowing the launcher to break line of sight with the target and seek cover. According to a report in ‘’The Times’’: On the 4th February 2002 in Khost, Afghanistan, an AGM-114 Hellfire missile was fired from a CIA MQ-1 Predator drone. The stated advantages of this missile are that it can hit armour, air defence, caves and maritime. Other terms used for this family of weapons are high-impulse thermobaric weapons (HITs), heat and pressure weapons, vacuum bombs, or fuel–air explosives (FAE or FAX). It adds some guidance and navigation improvements, and goes one step further than the K-A variant: it’s intended to work well against all 3 target types: armored vehicles, fortified positions, or soft/open targets. But Chamayou insists that the real comparison ought to be with other tactical means currently available to achieve the same objective. The UK already operates the Hellfire I, with Italy and France also recently requesting Hellfire missiles, for use with Reaper UAVs and Tiger attack helicopters respectively. Just microfragment my ass instead! Sept 26/13: A $248.7 million firm-fixed price contract modification for 3,318 Hellfire II missiles in containers (various models) for the US Army, Navy and Air Force; as well as exports to Saudi Arabia, Korea, Kuwait, the Netherlands and Australia. But both these procedures and, indeed, the criticisms of them, obscure what is for Chamayou, the fundamental paradox, what he calls the ‘profound contradiction’. Following directly from his previous critique of Bradley Jay Strawser, Chamayou cites him again here: ‘Drones, for all their current and potential misuse, have the potential for tremendous moral improvement over the aerial bombardments of earlier eras.’ But he dismisses this as a misleading comparison: if Dresden or Hiroshima are taken as the yardstick against which accuracy is to be measured – or, for that matter, as the standard against which military ethics are to be judged – then virtually any subsequent military operation would pass both tests with flying colours. With a blast radius of 15 meters, this piece of ordnance is used for anti-armor as well as precision strikes against high valued targets. The drone, praised for its forensic ability to distinguish between combatant and non-combatant, in fact abolishes the condition necessary for such a distinction: combat itself (p. 203; also p. 208). The blast wave destroys reinforced buildings and equipment and kills and injures people. I’ve seen several comments to the effect that the measure isn’t useful for ‘smart bombs’ because they don’t display the same spread as ‘dumb bombs’. Another Defense Intelligence Agency document speculates that, because the "shock and pressure waves cause minimal damage to brain tissue ... it is possible that victims of FAEs are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate". Apache engages a suicide bomber truck with Hellfire missile. First, as former USAAF officer Peter Goodrich points out in his discussion of ‘The surgical precision myth‘, this ‘totally disregards what happens after the bomb explodes’. Then it was down to three seconds.
This is the 12th in a series of extended posts on Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone and covers the final chapter in Part III: Necro-ethics, called ‘Précisions’; in French the singular means accuracy, as you might expect, but the plural means ‘details’ – which is, of course, where the devil is to be found….
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