The Kh-38MT may not actually exist

Only thing that sticks out pretty clearly is the smaller ring. You can look at the bottom half of the missile where there’s much less sunlight present, and all you can see is the small ring followed by something with clearly different color.

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So… is this proof that it exists? If so, good work!

I mean you can say that but nothing can remove the blatantly different colours between the whole seeker head and the body.
Some small area may slightly match but even that is a different colour if you look closely

Go higher. There is whole brochure posted by Chinese guy.

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Not really.

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How high? I think i might’ve seen it

It was posted yesterday.

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Aight

Again, look at the rectangle I made and look at the color palette from the front all the way to the back of the rectangle.

Things stay the same until you reach that smaller ring.

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I live in australia so ‘yesterday’ is subjective lol…

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I don’t think it’s that fast, don’t forget that drag is proportional to velocity squared (let alone when supersonic), and since the motor won’t be burning for the entire duration it’s going to be coasting the majority of that distance and as such that would means that the peak speed would have to be even higher for it to have an average speed of Mach 1.1.

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Ah yes. You are right. Like 15 hours ago? I dont remember exactly.

bro it doesnt matter that the rectangle seems similar in color because the rest of the majority of the color abruptly changes at the seekerhead - missile body boundary

Ok ill have a look

Post 5487 18 hours ago.

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is this it?


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Yes.

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proof at last!

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I mean why are we even discussing this when the official exporter of the 38M family stated the max speed is M2.2. People omitting the word “average” more than once is either a very big coincidence or something else entirely.

@Armen_Lozone
I’ve seen your drawings and you clearly think the metallic part reaches all the way back to the “bump” that serves as a mounting bracket or something. Take a look at 38ML, you’ll see the metallic part ends way before that “bump”.
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yes i know. it looks strange which is why i think its a promotional photoshop

could also be POV/perspective angle