>> The Hellfire II weighs 106 pounds, carries a 9 kg (20 pound) warhead and has a range of 8,000 meters.
5 miles. Impressive power for something that light.
“Able to hit” is the key = The bridges in North Vietnam were aimed at thousands of times by very large but unaimed, unguided bombs. Terminal guidance was crude and very dangerous through the TV-screens and radios of the day.
An impact with light weight weapon will actually be effective. Sometimes. Sometimes it helps to pound hell out of the ground with crude weapons, since your target (areas of troop tents for example) costs less than the bomb and UAV you’re flying against it, and covers a wide and random area.
Is that a max range from altitude (AH-64 OR UAV) or ground level?
TIA,
TS