First of all thats Hermes-A 15-20 km range air launched version. Secondly its just plastic tubes for exposition. Missile itself does not exit.
Composition differs little apart from having a booster attached. You said that it does not exist beyond 3D concepts, you was wrong. Said it not entered tests, it did.
WHy you talk about thing that you have no clue about? You enjoy to be exposed as ignorant?
Metis-M: 13.8 kg, 980 mm length, 130 mm diameter
Metis: 6.3 kg, 740 mm length, 94 mm diameter.
Its
completely new missile. Only with old guidance method. But u were proving here that this old method is super fine
There is a difference. Metis-M was not developed as a new system as Javelin or Spike, but from an existant base as continous modernisation. Was modified to meet requirements, and it is as same, as it can still launch old missiles. It preserves old wire configuration which limits range and load.
I never said that outdated wire configuration was fine, all the opposite.
Kornet and Metis-M dont have anything close to it.
Several systems, Bastion, Refleks, vehicle based Kornet, have several firing modes, loafted trajectory among them, to avoid obstacles. Though that´s not featured in infantry ATGMs I believe.
LR/MR has top (call it lofted whatever) atack 700 mm+. No single tank in the world can survive itMetis-M has 900 mm penetration and direct attack. Most of modern tanks can survive it frontally.
Spike .
LR/MR is 700mm+ without ERA, less with it. Metis-M is featured with 950mm after ERA. Difference is big.
lofted means that it will not necessary hit in vulnerable turret parts, but in front hull, frontal top turret, etc as seeker alone without corrections does not distinguish. And modern turrets are well protected by heavy ERA besides that.
Overall, there are more vulnerable parts a 950mm+ can penetrate, than 700mm.
How can you know when to put aerosol, when it does not emit anything? Unlike Kornet which does emit? And Kornet is also resistant to aerosols.
A missile can be easily seen optically (more with thermal sights which proliferate today). Javelin, Spike are slow and use lofted trajectories thus they are very easy to spot as compared to other systems. Countermeasures can be set manually and seekers are vulnerable to that (an aerosol cloud). Kornet does not trigger passive systems, and the missile is guided by looking at the laser beam, not the target, so clouds are much less likely to disrupt it.
Gosh you are rally slow understanding. Class is determined by weight of the missile. Spike LR weights like Metis-M but has double range.
So they have not real analog to Kornet, to meet similar functions (infantry carried).
You pay little wages to your engineers and workers and u are proud about that?
Not necessary. There are several factors: Lower salaries + cheaper material + structure + centralisation, etc. Western prices are inflated.
All countries have access to both.
Not in practice. Apart from politics, for example, Rosoboronexport was directly under sanctions by US, and it prevented those countries even theorically of doing buisness. Lobbism, politicalization, etc.
I repeat again: average LOS range in Europe is 2-3 km. Only in 5% of cases terrain allows u to see beyond the 5 km. Than means in 95% of cases Kornet-D wont be able to use its range while Spike ER will be.
Depends on what part of Europe, and how do you exploit it. With Spike there is no role unless you are fighting in like mountainous areas.
Its much higher. No tank in the world can survive 152-mm top attack EFP.
If those 152mm were something modern as a Kornet, yes, I´d believed it. If those 152mm are from an old Tow with small warhead limited by wire, then no.
If missile detects this laser then sensors also will be able to detect it. For example Merkavas LWS:
http://www.elbitsystems-us.com/sites/default/files/LWS.pdf
High power range finder (BR) type threats:
Low Power beam rider type threats:
There´s a big difference. There was continous research, and the beam rider of new generation Kornet-like missiles, is much weaker (hundred of times) than even the ones used in older systems, and was stated by KBP as new jam inmunity feature.
So that advertisement of yours, nice for old weapons, not for new.
Your Arab allies needed them and did not get. because they were very unrelaible then.
If you refer to T-64 specifically, there was a ban and it was not exported in the whole history.
Yep first serial tanks with thermals only in 2005.
Agava was in production in late 80s late 90s, not issue of capability.
Given armored targets they were intended to counter, effectiveness in combat was close.
Cannons can be effetive at long ranges.
I explained how gun launched missiles were developed, then you imply a gun can be equally effective in range and power (!) and give an example of an obsolete target in a much later time frame?
Trials trials. Americans have hundreds of Longbows with radar guided missiles. U only trials.
When there is need... there it appears. It is erroneous to relate ability to need.
Spike MR/LR superrior to Metis-M.
Spike ER superrior to Kornet, Kornet-D.
Spike NLOS exists, Hermes exists only as on pic.
In what, cost? that is way bigger. Would the supposed capabilities of Spike, and performance, justify the cost to replace Metis-M, or just buy Spike instead of Metis, in a hipotetical user? NO.
Is Spike ER versatile enought, and powerfull, to compare to Kornet? NO
Theorically, would it make sense to aquire NLOS, or Hermes? Clearly Hermes.
Cheers