(Middle East Newsline) Israeli sources say the Bush administration has withheld approval of an Israeli request for the sale of advanced versions of the Hellfire anti-tank missile. The L, M, and N models of the Hellfire, with a millimeter wave fire-and-forget guidance system, were regarded as having performed extremely well in Iraq in urban warfare as well as in anti-armor operations.
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