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Hermes - Izdeliye 70 (Product 70) - Variants

"Hermes" is multi-platform and can be installed on air delivery vehicles, as well as on land vehicles and small warships. It is also allowed to use the complex with drone attack.

"Hermes-A" Airborne variant

For the survivability of helicopters - carriers of guided weapons and their performance of combat missions in the face of enemy fire and information countermeasures, as part of the armament of the attack helicopter Ka-52 it is necessary that they be able to carry out:

• hidden exit to the attack area when flying at extremely low altitudes (20- 50 m ) using the screening effect of the terrain and vegetation cover;
• short-term "jump" to a given height in the attack zone for reconnaissance of targets and the use of guided weapons.

At the same time, the height of a hovering or flying helicopter should be minimal (30- 100 m ), and the residence time (ideally - less than the reaction time of air defense systems) - up to 10-15 s or comparable with it.

The Hermes-A air-based complex can hit targets at a range of 15- 18 km , being himself inaccessible to enemy anti-aircraft fire near the line. An inertial guidance system is used to bring the missile into the area of target capture by the homing head. In this case, elements of the radio command system, the placement of which on board an aircraft carrier is problematic, are excluded from the functional composition of the complex. All-day use is ensured by a day-night optical-electronic system with a two-channel laser target designator and an automatic target tracking machine with a range of optical channels (television, thermal imaging , laser target designator-range finder) up to 15- 25 km , which is not inferior to the capabilities of guided weapons.

"Hermes-K" Sea based variant

The Hermes-K complex is designed to solve the urgent problem of equipping boats, corvettes, landing ships with a small-sized high-precision missile system, the number of which in the Russian Navy is 4 times higher than the ships of the far sea zone, and the vulnerability due to smaller sizes is lower.

When using the Hermes-K complex on small patrol boats to combat surface ships, it is advisable to have a firing range equal to 15- 18 km . When deployed on landing ships and corvettes, which face more important tasks, in particular the fight against large surface targets and the suppression of enemy coastal defenses, at least 25 30 km . At the same time, the carrier of the complex is able to perform a combat mission, remaining outside the effective range of enemy artillery.

The sea-based Hermes-K complex, designed to equip small-tonnage boats, uses an inertial guidance system to bring the missile to the target area. For surface ships with a displacement of several hundred tons or more, the launch of a missile into the target area is provided by a radio command guidance system, which includes a radar station and a command transmitter on board the SD (similar to the ground-based version). Such a complex is capable of inflicting a level of irretrievable losses on surface targets with a displacement of up to 100 tons with one missile, and depriving larger ones of combat capability when it hits vital nodes (the cabin, reconnaissance systems, ammunition storage).

The Hermes-K multi-purpose sea-based complex is also capable of hitting low-speed air targets (helicopters) without the involvement of additional anti-aircraft weapons.

Hermes-K can be installed on amall and medium displacement surface ships to fulfill customs duties, patrol and combat operations in littoral and territorial waters. Depending on ship class, missile module is installed on the self-contained launcher or on the AK-306 gun mount modified for missiles application.