"Hermes" multi-purpose guided missile:

Description: The Hermes is a modular, supersonic, bi-caliber, multi-purpose guided missile designed by Tula-based KBP for use by airborne, ground-based and sea-based platforms. The Hermes missile system consists of an expendable booster stage and the primary missile system, also known as sustainer, carrying a powerful high explosive (HE) fragmentation warhead. The spectrum of targets that can be engaged at day/night using the Hermes weapon system includes: armored vehicles, facilities, fortifications and low-speed air targets such as helicopters. The Hermes is sealed inside tube/canister which acts as the missile launcher.
The Hermes-A is a long-range anti-armor/anti-low-speed aircraft missile designed for both rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft such as Ka-52 and Su-39 respectively. The missile is guided through the target area by the inertial navigation system (INS). Terminal guidance is provided by a semi-active laser seeker with the optronic system providing the target designation typically mounted on the aircraft. The Hermes-A has a maximum firing range of between 15 to 20 kilometers flying at an average speed of 500 mps. The missile's diameters are 170mm (booster) and 130mm (sustainer). The sustainer is carrying at least a 28 kg HE fragmentation warhead which can defeat existing and future main battle tanks. Two Hermes-A missiles can be fired against two different targets simultaneously. The missile also features improved resistance against countermeasures compared to existing anti-tank missiles.

Here is says hermes use a combination of inertial guidance with terminal Semi-active lazer guidance and "Optronics".

Zivo wrote:I wonder if there's any plans on making a lightweight ground based carrier  for the 20km Hermes-A. Israel has some designs based on the spike NLOS.

The VDV would probably take interest in something like that.

Vann7 wrote:

Zivo wrote:They're using the same terminal stage, and added a larger booster stage.

What I don't understand, is that there's going to be an overlap in capability with other MLRS systems. What's the point in having multiple systems that do the same thing? HERMES-A is one hell of an ATGM, but compared to other MLRS, it's nothing special. Perhaps it would make a good export.

Russia don't have lazer guided precision Artillery at 100km range.. the closest thing is
Krasnopol with 30km range ,fired from artillery.  Their smerch rocket artillery have a 90km
range ,but not sure about how its precision missiles works.. using drones or heat seeking..
fire and forget ? i think those are.. things that you have not complete full control of where you want it to hit exactly in the end ,the target is chosen in the end by the onboard sensors ,so less control .  Perhaps Hermes is more ideal against heavy armored tanks ,while smerch is more ideal against enemy soldiers ,enemy artillery or light armored targets without active defenses. That is precision area attacks. while Hermes is more ideal for highly armored targets..

Flanky wrote:Anyone knows the status of Hermes project?

What is the fate of the contract for anti-tank missiles "Vikrh" ? Will there be new contracts after 2015 ?

At present, there is one valid contract , which is in the final stage. In 2015, the supply of guided missiles "Vikrh-Whirlwind" for the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation will be completed .

http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/05/13/kalashnikov/

Flanky wrote:Anyone knows the status of Hermes project?

http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201505280944-6e6r.htm

Russia to unveil its newest Hermes missile system during Army-2020 forum

Rostec will show the Hermes missile system with a range of 100 km at the Army for the first time
The High-Precision Complexes holding clarified that the Hermes missile has an autonomous guidance system based on the "fire - forget" principle


MOSCOW, August 19. / TASS /. The Instrument-Making Design Bureau JSC (part of the High-Precision Complexes holding of the Rostec State Corporation) will present for the first time a new-generation Hermes high-precision missile system with a firing range of up to 100 km at the Army-2020 forum. TASS was informed about it in the press service of "High-precision complexes".

"At the upcoming forum" Army-2020 "as part of the exposition of JSC" KBP ", for the first time, the Hermes high-precision guided weapons complex with an over-the-horizon firing range of up to 100 km will be demonstrated. It is a new generation complex that occupies a niche between guided artillery shells and operational-tactical systems ", - said the holding.

As the press service specified, the Hermes missile has an autonomous guidance system based on the "fire and forget" principle. "The complex implements a salvo firing mode at several (up to 6) spaced targets, as well as automatic synchronization of laser target designation to hit targets with high-precision ammunition with a miss of no more than 0.5 m," the holding added.

The development of the latest anti-tank missile system "Hermes" became known in 2015. As the head of the department of complexes of the Tula Instrument-Making Design Bureau reported at that time, the Hermes was developed in two modifications: to hit a target in the visibility zone at a distance of 20 km, and also out of the line-of-sight zone at a distance of up to 100 km.

"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 from shock drones.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/9232959