Hadès missile

the missile Hadès is a Ground-to-ground missile nuclear tactical (with short range), designed in France to be used on the battle fields. The doctrines concerning its employment evolved to a ultimate warning , by making a “missile officially prestrategic”, to use before the nuclear response massive anti-cities in the event of invasion of the Warsaw Pact of the Western Europe. It was conceived in 1984 to replace the Missile Pluto, of similar employment.

The 120 Hadès missiles envisaged were to be launched mobile platforms, carrying each one two missiles in containers which played the part of system of launching. Their range envisaged of 250 km was pushed to 480 km. The missile is convoyed horizontally, drawn up by the truck and launched. The weak weight of the missile made it possible to easily deploy it in rough grounds, and its weak operating range made it usable on limited strategic targets (without allowing to reach the cities of the USSR or their missile silos).

The navigation system was a inertial platform which could be programmed to carry out operations of exhaust before reaching its target. The version of Hadès intended to reach underground targets also had a final guidance system by GPS, giving him a precision of approximately five meters (against 100 m for the normal versions).

The Hadès program was launched in 1984 to replace the Pluton; the first tests took place in 1988. In 1991, because of the geopolitical changes in Europe and the German opposition to this program (openly intended to strike the German Democratic republic), the program was gradually tiny room to 15 platforms of launching and 30 missiles. The first platforms entered in service in 1992, like resource ultimate in the event of serious threat, and stored with Lunéville.

In 1996, the France made evolve its tripartite system of nuclear deterrence (launched missiles of silos Plateau of Albion, launched missiles of planes and launched missiles of submarines) to a system entirely based on the underwater , supplemented by the Strategic Air forces (FAS). Consequently, the Hadès missiles were dismantled (the last on June 23rd, 1997).

See too

Internal bonds

Missile Pluto
ASMP

External bonds

Presentation on the pre-strategic missiles

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