Hadès was originally designed with a range of 350 km, that would enable it to reach East Germany and Czechoslovakia if deployed from within France.
In 1991, due to the changing situation in Europe and to the German opposition to the program (which was openly designed to strike East Germany), restrictions were decided upon so as not to deploy the system and limit the complement to 15 mobile launching platforms and 30 missiles.
The system entered service in 1992, as a resource kept in storage in case of a serious national threat, in north-eastern France near Lunéville.
[5] 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.
A TV digital scene matching terminal guidance system has also been proposed, providing a CEP down to less than 5m.
On 23 February 1996 the announcement by Jacques Chirac, the President of France, on the new format for French nuclear forces called for dismantling of Hadès missiles.