what do you even call this behavior? This was against a Mi-8AMTSh.
it also has LDIRCM
This is what I call peak SLM performance 😁
All 3 missiles missed against a Su-30 flying 2000 meters altitude, had this been BUK or SAMP-T they would’ve already been erased from the sky. You literally can just hang out in the sky and notch this thing because the radar is so bad at course correcting.
kh31 has been around for decades and it has not had any real success despite adopting countries having been involved conflicts involving air defense.
and besides agm88e and agm88g are plain better even if we just take the kh31 figures at face value
really?
i think this is valid especially cause both india and russia are/have been involved in conflicts were on paper the kh31 shouldve been usable. yet afaik india has not really had any usage, and afaik russia hasnt had any success either with the P variant either, if we’re talkin kh31 itself though it has sank sloviansk according to H I Sutton - Covert Shores hisutton is someone i find very reliable and general reporting agrees with him
range is in the same ballpark for agm88e and kh31pm as far as any layman can tell, kh31p is faster, but agm88e has Home on jam and a mmw radar + gps guidance that is very surface levels as of course not all seekers are built the same but its enough to paint a picture, i dont think discussing warheads is relevant as theyre both more than enough to deal with soft targets such as radars and spaas, the speed is relevant of course but i dont think its as relevant as the sensors and targetting difference, allegedly the aargm managed to kill a mi24 and i wager that was tanks to the MMW capabilities.
agm88g is fairly new so even if we wanted to go more in depth we couldnt but going but what is known, the head of the missile is the same as the agm88e, but the rest is pretty much a different missile,
its dual pulse, which for it results in having a faster max speed and double the range(as far as public statements go) which propably means around 160 Nm’s , all else being equal that is longer ranged than what Rosoboronexport states for the kh31pd, which also doesnt really add any other means of targetting other than ins+passive radar.
now something to keep in mind is that the kh31p motor working as it does means that if both the agm88e and the kh31p are shot from a low altitude the kh31p will achieve a significantly longer range, i feel that is a pretty useless consideration though.
and another important thing to add is that the agm88b which didnt have gps nor mmw was generally not very accurate which is very likely why they made the Aargm as it is, so i think its fair to judge that capability as pretty important.
aargm and kh31pd are pretty much contemporary so if we go strictly by timelines and include availability(agm88g is still in low production afaik) kh31pd should should at very least hold a speed and range advantage over the agm88e.
i included both kh31p and kh31pd cause those are the main Arm’s used by russia afaik, i know the kh31M exist but that missile is pretty redundant as its pretty much redundant