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A fact from Brimstone (missile) appeared on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 July 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Brimstone missile, an anti-tank guided missile, is carried by three Royal Air Force aeroplane types? A record of the entry may be seen at Misplaced Pages:Recent additions/2004/July.

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Regarding information on the article

"The missile is a development of Boeing's AGM-114 Hellfire and is designed to meet the RAF's requirement for a long range anti-armour weapon"

I thought that the AGM-114 Hellfire was a Lockheed Martin designed and built weapon, not a Boeing weapon. Can someone backup this statement or if it cannot be verified, be removed or edited? Thanks. ThePointblank 01:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Brimstone is based on the original Hellfire missile, a Boeing product. LM are responsible for Hellfire II.

better pic?

Isn't there a better pic, even if its a static mock-up at an airshow?

Would be nice to have a pic of three on the triple rail launcher system. Bumper12 02:18, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

change infobox?

Um, maybe we should change the infobox from ((weapon-missile)) to ((Infobox_Missile))? virtually all the other missiles are using this. Cheers. Bumper12 (talk) 22:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

news

According to www.flightglobal.com, the Dual Mode seeker version (Laser instead of MMW radar) is now in service with RAF, and has flown on a sortie in Iraq.

Think this can be added - but I'm not sure if this new DMS variant is the same thing as Brimstone 2?

Anyone know? Bumper12 (talk) 03:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Just an observation from a visitor - I'm not familiar with editing so hopefully one of you can deal with this. The missile referred to as "Brimstone 2" is indeed Dual Mode Seeker Brimstone. The manufacturer's own blurb is at the following link:

http://www.mbda-systems.com/mbda/site/ref/scripts/EN_DUAL-MODE-BRIMSTONE_416.html

This has all the correct dates for the first operational mission (in Iraq) with DMS Brimstone and the first firing (in Afghanistan). The version in use in Libya at the moment is DMS Brimstone - you can tell by the videos that have been released to the media, which show the transparent nosecone (the original missile has an opaque dome). I am not aware of any operational deployment or usage of the "original" Brimstone so the information on the current version of the page is incorrect.

A good closeup of the DMS Brimstone is here:

http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/1/14/a1ac5291-ad87-45f4-9ec1-81dd36143faa.Large.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.113.164 (talk) 00:43, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

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