Which designation is a missile; laser-guided (P variant with added fragmentation)?

• A. AGM-114P2A
• B. AGM-114P
• C. AGM-114N
• D. GBU-39 B/B

Answer: (A)

Designations reveal a lot about how the weapon works. For missiles in the Hellfire family, the prefix AGM-114 tells you it’s an air-to-ground missile. The letter that follows the 114 indicates the guidance method, and a P designator means laser guidance. When you see a P variant with extra characters like 2A, that signals an updated version of that laser-guided missile with an added capability, in this case fragmentation.

So the designation that matches a laser-guided Hellfire with the added fragmentation feature is the one that explicitly shows the P variant with those extra modifiers: the P2A variant. The other options either describe a different kind of munition entirely (a bomb, not a missile) or a different Hellfire variant that doesn’t specify the fragmentation enhancement.