Elbit Hermes Family
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IsraelManufacturer: Elbit Systems
Overview of the Elbit Hermes family: from the mini-tactical Hermes 90 to the certified Hermes StarLiner MALE, the UAV backbone of the IDF and 20+ armed forces worldwide.
Overview of the Elbit Hermes family: from the mini-tactical Hermes 90 to the certified Hermes StarLiner MALE, the UAV backbone of the IDF and 20+ armed forces worldwide.
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Identity
- Designation
- Elbit Hermes Family
- Alias
- Hermes 90 / 450 / 900 / 1500 / StarLiner
- Manufacturer
- Elbit Systems
- Country
- Israel
- Year
- 1998
- Category
- ISR (Reconnaissance)
- Class
- MALE (Medium-altitude / long-endurance)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 1000 km
- Endurance
- Da 15 h (Hermes 90) a 36 h (Hermes 900)
- Top speed
- 220 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 9,100 m
- Propulsion
- Pistone Rotax / turbocompresso, elica spintore
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 1180 kg
- Payload
- 350 kg
- Hardpoints
- 4
- Weapons
- Bombe a guida laser e missili leggeri per varianti armate (operatori selezionati)
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR DCoMPASS, SAR/GMTI, ELINT/COMINT, radar marittimo
- Datalink / control
- LOS + SATCOM BLOS
- Launch
- Pista (decollo autonomo)
- Recovery
- Pista (atterraggio autonomo)
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History
The Hermes family originated from the Searcher/Hermes 450 program in the late 1990s and evolved into a modular ISR/STRIKE platform.
The STANAG 4671-certified StarLiner is designed to operate in non-segregated civilian airspace alongside passenger flights.
Elbit Systems' Hermes family currently includes five operational variants (90, 450, 900, 1500, Starliner) and is the broadest MALE-drone range produced by a single manufacturer in the world.
The family's commercial success has made Elbit Systems the world's second-largest military drone exporter after IAI, with customers in over 30 countries and multi-billion-dollar contracts awarded in the past 20 years.
The Hermes experience produced the civilianised Hermes Starliner version, certified for civil airspace and used for maritime patrol, border surveillance and wildfire missions.