A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.
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In November 2002, six Yemenis suspected of being members of al Qaeda were blown up in their car in the province of Marib by a Hellfire missile attack from an unmanned CIA RQ-1 Predator aircraft.
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Hellfire Club members Sebastian Shaw, Donald Pierce, Harry Leland, and Jason Wyngarde all have names and likenesses based on characters in the episode.
The missile is smaller than the Hellfire typically used by armed UAVs, which has the effect of reducing the potential for collateral damage and three Griffins can be carried in place of one Hellfire.
Shepherd spent six months on a forward operating base near Tikrit, working 12-hour days to keep the heavily armed Apaches (and their signature Hellfire missiles) in the air.
With the support of Apache gunships firing Hellfire missiles, U.S. forces were able to inflict between 40 and 50 insurgent casualties on 14 March.
An Apache helicopter fired two Hellfire-missiles at the farm, killing the Bosnians and civilians inside.
The Cobra II was to be equipped with Hellfire missiles, a new targeting system and improved engines.
Bwlch y Groes is also known as the Hellfire Pass, and was used between and after the wars by the Austin Motor Company and the Standard Triumph Motor Company to test prototype cars and their performance during hillclimbing.
Some industry sources have been stating that an armed variant would include a 800kg (1,760 lb) payload, possibly an early-warning radar, a few AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and perhaps the self-made Hsiung Feng IIE cruise missile.
CTC Director Black advocated arming Predators with missiles to try to launch a targeted killing of bin Laden, but there were legal and technical issues: under the new Bush administration in 2001, Black continued to lobby for Predators armed with adapted Hellfire anti-tank missiles.
Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer (1708–1781), English rake, politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, founder of the Hellfire Club
The German, Wilhelm Bach, in his conduct of the Axis defence of Halfaya Pass himself earnt the nickname (alluding to his peacetime occupation as a Lutheran minister), 'the Pastor of Hellfire Pass'.
Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures visited the site in 2012 as part of the episode, "Hellfire Cave."
The Hellfire trigger was used, with a pair of TEC-9 pistols, by the perpetrator of a 1993 mass shooting that killed nine people.
However, in the summer of 2003 a UAV "airshow" of sorts was conducted, in which a Firebee was displayed carrying two Hellfire anti-armor missiles, as well as a pod for dispensing remote battlefield sensors; apparently Northrop Grumman was running the idea up a flagpole to see if anyone would salute.
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Israel has customized the Elbit Hermes 450 UAV to carry two Hellfire missiles and this UCAV has been fully operational for several years.
As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Master Pandemonium was recruited by Kade Kilgore to be a teacher at the Hellfire Club's Hellfire Academy, where Master Pandemonium teaches Hell Literature.
It also has a long range for an anti-tank missile; at 10 km (6.2 mi) it is greater than that of most current competitors, including the Hellfire.
In Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, one of the characters, Amos Starkadder, hellfire preacher at the Church of the Quivering Brethren says "Ye miserable, crawlin' worms. Are ye here again then? Have ye come like Nimshi, son of Rehoboam, secretly out of your doomed houses, to hear what's comin' to ye?"
Hellfire goes on to make numerous appearances in the ongoing series, Secret Warriors.
In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to "combine scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire" and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.
Based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Electric Hellfire Club was formed in 1991 when Thomas Thorn (aka Buck Ryder), departed the industrial/techno band My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.
The Hiroshima Panels have also been the subject of the 1987 Academy Award nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima.