By: nastle - 3rd December 2011 at 14:54
^ thanks for the replies
does anybody have the figures for the inventory of the AA-11 R-73 in Soviet service in 1989-90 period ?
By: topolo - 16th November 2011 at 09:12
This picture show that R-60 (stricly) has no head on capability, bu the R-60MK has some (limited compared to AIM-9L, but existing)
By: Mercurius - 6th September 2011 at 16:30
I am not aware of any official in-service date for the R-73 (AA-11). We know that it was undergoing user trials from 1983 onwards, so it is assumed that it formally entered service some time in the second half of the 1980s.
Early-model R-60 (AA-8) missiles were tail-chase weapons, and the same limitation may have applied to the R-60M.
An upgraded UA-96 IR seeker assembly with four additional IR detectors mounted externally was displayed in 1997 by CDO Arsenal. This offered improved sensitivity in the forward hemisphere, so presumably would have given some degree of all-aspect capability. But it seems that this seeker was never adopted for service.
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