The Kh-38MT may not actually exist

Can even see on the final production version of 38ML the tiny FOV in the centre of the seeker, reminiscent of all laser seekers
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No, and no again.There are only 2 ML version generation

Where is the war in the photo?

this looks extremly similar to the gimbal the IRST on the Flankers is mounted to

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It’s a gyrocopter what kind of depression is that

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the head of a laser seeker is always a tiny FOV, this is pure copium. IIR seekers and laser seekers look nothing alike.

IIR much larger and wider;

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thats not what i meant,
the thing you screenshoted in particular looks similar to the gimbal the flanker IRST uses to control Elveation
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Okay but this is a laser seeker haha

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I went into a newsbank service that has text compilations of news articles from across everywhere (support your local library) and theres a brief mention of the Kh-38M family foor the T-50

Russia’s new warplane briefly seen, much talked-of at MAKS-2011 air show
BBC Monitoring International Reports
August 20, 2011

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They don’t even mention IR there.

I do not know the article name for this one other than it was done by Piotr Butowski for IDR in 2014, whatever IDR is


So the IR seeker was still in design stages in 2014.
Searching for AOMZ documents about the seeker may be a possible different route to finding something

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After reading through all this I think it’s very possible that the MT variant was simply abandoned because seen as unnecessary. The Russian military doesn’t have money to waste and they often take down projects that are not considered important

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Facepalm
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Brighten up the image, sure looks like a laser seeker to me, which since its labelled as a X-38ME actually makes sense.

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Is that a watch

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Tutorial how to show you lost the argument in one step

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Yes, remove kh38mt !!

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Gyroskop

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Looks like it

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And the front of that one looks like this:
granit-7t-m1_camera_kh-27_missile_01_z1
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Not like the one in the image:
Screenshot 2025-04-11 154148

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how does this look anything like this

The area around the lense looks exactly nothing like the laser seeker thats in the X-38ME your purported as a 38MT

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What does a Rolex have to do with a laser seeker

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