R 37 air to air missile has about 400km range with mach 5-6 speed. I think it can be converted to air to ground role by using glonass-ins and removing its radar seeker or optionally replacing with an anti radar seeker although not necessary for static ad installations which most western systems are. It will have more range than 400km in a2g mode. This way Russia can attack Ukranian high end ad missiles like patriot-nasams(which has very limited anti missile capability it can shot down only slow cruise missiles using ground based amraam)-S300 and others with hypersonic-long range option much cheaper than Khinzal-Zircon and other options. Buk-Osa-S125 and other shorter range sams close to frontlines can be dealt cheaply as well by Fab 250-500 from 80km rangeThe Fall | Tightening The Avdiivka Noose | Russian Dominance In The Air. Military Summary 2023.10.22
Russia needs to develop more elint capability to detect and locate Ukr ad radars by converting some of its fighters specifically for that role by adding elint pods to the wings.Elint pods can also be added to high flying larger drones like Orion.
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