Obviously a blog i not a reliable source but can’t find the original article so just putting that there
As Piotr Butowski and Antony Angrand write in the article " New configuration for the Kh-38M ", published in the magazine " Air&Cosmos ", at the Moscow Aviation and Space Salon JSC “Tactical Missiles Corporation” presented a new modification of the Kh-38ME air-to-surface missile. Compared to previously demonstrated samples, the tail, lifting surfaces and homing head were changed. In the previous modification, the tail and lifting surfaces could be folded, which allowed the missile to be placed in the internal weapons bay of the fighter. The new version has non-folding surfaces, but the missile can be suspended in the internal bay. The span of the lifting surfaces was also reduced, as well as their chord. A company representative declined to comment on the changes in the appearance of the missile. However, it is very likely that there were some problems with the release of the missile from the internal bay at high speed.
The Kh-38M missile (M stands for “modular”) is a new-generation universal air-to-surface missile designed to replace the popular Kh-25M and Kh-29 missiles. The first Kh-38M launches (without a seeker) were carried out in 2010 from a Su-34 bomber. In 2015, the missile was declared ready for serial production, which was to begin at the KTRV plant in Korolev in 2016. KTRV General Director Boris Obnosov announced at MAKS-2017 that the first version of the Kh-38ML semi-active laser seeker missile is already in production, and the next modification with an IR seeker, the Kh-38MT, should complete testing this year. There are two more modifications of the missile - the Kh-38MA with a radar seeker and the Kh-38MK with a cluster warhead.
So as of 2017 the IR seeker was still in testing
And the laser seeker tests were in 2014 which as stated above entered production in 2017
Thankfully together we all worked towards getting this sorted out. :)
That is clearly a lens at the bottom, the laser version has a reflector and there is no TV version, so at the very least there was one prototype seeker produced.
afaik if a weapon existed and was atleast test fired sucessfully, then it can be added, but i might be wrong, for example sraam had like 8 test fires before it was cancelled
Why would you answer with talking about the gyro when i started by saying the seeker/IR?
My point was that you mistakenly pointed out the IR to be the wrong thing in the image you provided and drew on at the start of the discussion. Which caused a lot of confusion.
You were however correct about the gyro part and did point to the correct thing for that.
, play around with these settings:
