PakShaheen79
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Just need a dozen of these babies...
KS-172 RVV-L
purpose: super long range
design bureau: Novator
development: early 1997
1st Air tests: in 1993
length: 7.4 m
diameter: 0.51
wingspan: 0.75
missile wt: 750 kg
warhead wt: 50 kg
envelope: 3 to 30000 m
Range: about 400 km
Guidance: Inertial + active radarhoming
Carried by: Mig-31M; SU-35/37/S-37
Few years back, Chinese were proposing a similar long range anti-radiation missile; FT-2000. But fir any such missile to be effective, the crew and pilot in AEW plane must be completely stupid. AWACS would eye in coming missile from a longggggggggg distance and would employ every kind of on board counter measure. Plus the description of the KS-172 indicates that India does not has any of the launch platform in its inventory. Don't know if MKI can launch one. the bottom line is that it is not an answer to AWACS.