Hyperios missile launcher
The Hyperios Missile Launcher is a specialized, anti-aircraft missile launcher mounted on Space Marine Whirlwind Hyperios. It is capable of firing up to twenty Hyperios missiles at fast, low-flying targets, making it ideal for defense against ground-attack craft making strafing runs.1
Hyperios Missile
The Hyperios Anti-Aircraft Missile functions in a similar fashion to a Hunter-killer missile.2 Tracking equipment within the missile locks onto a target, which feeds information to a logis-engine. Once fired, the logis-engine manipulates the missile's fins in order match the target's movements, avoid obstacles, and destroy it.2 Most of the missile's mass is taken up by fuel needed to intercept fast-moving targets, allowing it to fly short distances at high velocity. The Hyperios missile does not contain enough fuel to reach high-altitude targets, which are better suited to Manticore AA missiles.2
Like the Hunter-Killer missile, the Hyperios can be used against ground targets.2
Sources
- 1:Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, p. 58
- 2: Ibid, p. 251