AGM-176 Griffin
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The AGM-176 Griffin is a lightweight, precision-guided munition developed by Raytheon. It can be launched from the ground or air as a rocket-powered missile or dropped from the air as a guided bomb. I
Launch of a Griffin during testing
USS Firebolt (PC-10) fires a BGM-176B missile in June 2015.
The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an American remotely piloted aircraft built by General Atomics that was used primarily by the United States Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency. Conceived in
AGM-176 Griffin
…the potential for collateral damage. The Griffin missile and launch assembly is also lighter than the Hellfire, allowing more to be mounted on the Predator. Three Griffins can be carried in place of one Hellfire. In 70 months of production from 2008 to early February 2014, Raytheon delivered 2,000 Griffin…
A US Air Force MQ-1 armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles
At Paris Air Show 2007
A Predator flies on a simulated Navy aerial reconnaissance flight off the coast of southern California on 5 December 1995.
Predator operators at Balad Camp Anaconda, Iraq, August 2007