thanks for pointing them out, interesting stuff

but both are manually operated, the whole point of computers these days is that they would guide those weapons much better
without placing a large burden on pilots
also many GPS guided weapons today do have radio links that can be used to send target updates. meaning you could use those same links to guide the weapon, and could ditch the GPS and advanced course correcting computers all together, which would save a lot of money I’m sure

In fact radio guided weapons has been used in COIN missions both in Iraq and Syria at this time, since the AT 6 Spiral missiles (9K114 Shturm) and AT 9 Spiral 2 (9K120 Ataka) has been firing by: Mil Mi 24P, Mil Mi 35M, Mil Mi 28N and maybe by the Ka 52 .

The 9K120 Ataka missiles has been credited with better range and accuracy than the 9K114 Sthurm, yet the Ataka’s useful range could be around 4 km ( 2.5 mi) against an MBT, since for long range around 8 Km ( 5 mi) against an MBT there are the AT 16 (9K121 Vikhr) with laser guidance.

So the radio guidance in fact does not provide great accuracy at long distances due to the fact that the sight system( SACLOS) of the platform that launched the missile has been need to correct the missile’s trajectory continually, the inaccuracy problem will increasing as long the distance getting high, once the sight system becomes itself more inaccuracy too. Then every time that missile gets out of the line-of-sight it were necessary to correct its trajectory, but while it has been correcting the missile also could occurred other deviates from correct bearing, so its need of another correction, in summary the missile has been continuously oscillating in the system line-of-sight.

For those who has been playing through the Internet may understand this as the PIN number of the internet connection, which are the time lag between the command has been executed and the action performed in the game, once the missile has been corrected its trajectory after it were deviated from it, so every command sent to the missile corrects its past behavior, then its has been always keeping such time lag and therefore an inaccuracy.

All of these missiles (Shturm, Ataka and Vikhrs) has been used the concept of spin in flight that makes to rotate on its axis, like in unguided rockets, to maintain more stable trajectory until reach the target, indeed it were another major advance over the first radio guided AT 2 Swatter , but for long distances the laser guidance has been used in the Vikhrs too.