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Read about your interest in the mechanization for an air to ground variant for the R-60. Feel your pain in that I tried to get a similar conversation going about adding a seeker slew joystick for the OH-58D AHIP as what finally made the Kiowa Warrior compatible with the Air to Air escort mission for Apaches when MLMS became ATAS.
Got the post stripped from the forum and every subsequent message to which I replied with public data here denied as well.
These people are serious about anything related to tactics or operational use being 'not suitable for DCS', a tactical military sim. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad as these are the people repressing DCS development at every turn and with War Thunder in particular moving to advanced inertial-active missile defeat and MSI level sensor fusion, such backwards thinking is going to destroy the sim, if it hasn't already.
Anyway, I recalled coming across a post on the Secret Projects UK forum titled:
'molniya-vympel-r-60-aa-8-aphid-aam-variants'.
And noticed a few things regarding proximity vs. induction fusing and the use of various add-on features in subsequent Izdeliye product variants of the R-60 which included one mentioning an Ataka radio command link. You should look it up. The Aphid was a genuinely innovative design for it's time, as much a replacement for cannons as a competitor/complement to the R-13 and subsequent, 'dogfight', weapons and as such, it went through a lot of updates from enhanced digital autopilot to wider IFOV and OBS limits to cooling and target designation upgrades, allowing for faster handoff.
It's 5` IFOV in particular interested me as this is rather a wide squint for a seeker intended to reject IR expendables and yet, for a large diffuse target without mechanical IRCM, it would likely be a considerable aid, given only that you could command guide the missile to a distance (under EO control from the Hind optronics) to where that was the only dirt/pavement/burning building object in the FOV.
So... Launch on digital autopilot, steer a smooth trajectory to the point at which seeker lock-on is assured, handoff to the weapon and watch it slam into a contact vs. proximity fuse detonation in a cluttered ground environment?
Not saying I have your answer, but it might be worth looking into. Lots of genuinely more technically knowledgeable people on SPROJ as well, though they do not always open up honestly, which is understandable, given the subject matter.
Good Luck.
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