Consider the following statements:

Hellfire R9X is a Russian-origin missile.

‘Longbow’, ‘Romeo’ and ‘Ninja’ are its variants.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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The Hellfire R9X (or AGM-114 R9X) is a US-origin missile known to cause minimum collateral damage while engaging individual targets.
It is also known as the ‘Ninja Missile’.
This weapon does not carry a warhead and instead deploys razor-sharp blades at the terminal stage of its attack trajectory.
Hellfire is actually an acronym for Heliborne, Laser, Fire and Forget Missile and it was developed in the US initially to target tanks from the Apache AH-64 attack helicopters.
The Hellfire missile has other variants such as ‘Longbow’ and ‘Romeo’ apart from the ‘Ninja’.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US strike using the Hellfire R9X missile. Zawahiri took over the leadership of Al-Qaeda after the US Forces hunted down Osama bin Laden in Jalalabad of Pakistan.

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The Hellfire R9X (or AGM-114 R9X) is a US-origin missile known to cause minimum collateral damage while engaging individual targets.
It is also known as the ‘Ninja Missile’.
This weapon does not carry a warhead and instead deploys razor-sharp blades at the terminal stage of its attack trajectory.
Hellfire is actually an acronym for Heliborne, Laser, Fire and Forget Missile and it was developed in the US initially to target tanks from the Apache AH-64 attack helicopters.
The Hellfire missile has other variants such as ‘Longbow’ and ‘Romeo’ apart from the ‘Ninja’.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US strike using the Hellfire R9X missile. Zawahiri took over the leadership of Al-Qaeda after the US Forces hunted down Osama bin Laden in Jalalabad of Pakistan.

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