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Hades
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Hades is a short range, road mobile, solid propellant, single warhead ballistic missile. Hades began with project definition in 1975 as a replacement for the Pluton system. Development started in July 1984, and flight testing started in 1988. The Hades program planned to build 120 missiles, some with nuclear and some with HE warheads. Originally designed with a range of 250 km, the range requirement was later increased to 480 km. Reports in 1993 suggested that a reversion to the 250 km range missile, but with a hard target HE penetration warhead and a GPS mid-course updating of the inertial navigation system, would provide an accurate and difficult to counter offensive weapon system. A TV digital scene matching terminal guidance system has ... been proposed, providing a CEP down to less than 5 m.
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Hades was one of the children of Cronus and Rhea , and was swallowed by Cronus when he learned one of his children would usurp him. When Zeus tricked Cronus into expelling Hades from his body, Zeus and Hades joined with the other children to overthrow Cronus. Hades assisted in the wounding of Cronus by using his helmet of darkness given to him by the Cyclopes, that allowed him to be invisible. Hades was assigned the Underworld after the division of power among himself, Zeus, and Poseidon. Since Hades was always in the Underworld, he did not sit with the other gods in Olympus. He ruled the Underworld with Persephone and the goddess Hecate, the actual overseer of the dead.
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Hades has cattle which he kept near the cattle of Geryon, near Erytheia. Hades' herdsman was named Menoetes. When Heracles (10th labour) arrived and stole Geryon's cattle, Menoetes went directly to the three-headed king with the news of cattle. Menoetes met Heracles again in the 12th labour, where he wrestled the hero, and would have been crushed to death had not Persephone not intervened.
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Hades had an invisible helmet, which he liked very much. He had a golden chariot, which was his pride and joy. He had his faithful companion, his three-headed dog, Cerberus. That was all he needed. At least, that was all he needed until he saw the lovely Persephone.
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Before the gates of Hades, sits Cerberus, his three headed dog. Cerberus greets all newcomers but refuses anyone to leave. Once in Hades, the dead are judged by Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, who allot each either to a place of pain and torment, or to a place of bliss called the Elysian Fields. At first, Hades in person brought the dead from the upper world to the lower, but this duty was later made one of the responsibilities of Hermes. the forbidding side of Hades was natuarally emphasized, but it was not the only one. As Pluto, the giver of wealth, he was sometimes shown in a more favourable light to signify that things - food and corn - come from the lowest depths of the earth and the bottom of the earth contains trasures as well as the souls of the dead.
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Her uncle, Hades, made Persephone his wife and queen. Hades had tricked Persephone into eating the pomegranate seeds, so that she could not leave the Underworld for very long. Since she had eaten the seeds in the Underworld, she had to stay with her husband. However, Zeus or Hermes made Hades and Demeter compromise of where and when Persephone should live. Persephone was to live a third of the year with new husband Hades, and the rest with her mother Demeter.
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