[MSSL] AA-8 Aphid / R-60

R-60 / AA-8 Aphid

ORIGIN: (Real World)
Russian Federation

GAMES FEATURED IN:
Air Combat
Ace Combat 2
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
Ace Combat 05: The Unsung War
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Ace Combat 06: Fires of Liberation

COMPATIBLE AIRCRAFT:
Fenrir, MiG-21bis/ Fishbed, MiG-21-93 Fishbed, MiG-29A Fulcrum, MiG-31 Foxhound, MiG-31M Foxhound-M, Su-25 Frogfoot, Su-27 Flanker, Su-32/34 Strike Flanker, Su-33 Flanker, Su-35 'Super Flanker', Su-37 'Terminator', Su-47 Berkut

OVERVIEW:
Toward the end of the 1960s the Molniya design bureau begin working on the first missile for tactical air combat, the K-60 (R-60, Object 62), with infrared self-guidance. Series production of this missile began in 1973, with the R-60 missile being certified as a weapon for a variety combat aircraft.

The R-60 missile is an unusually small missile, weighing half as much as the lightest Western missiles, with a correspondingly small warhead which weighs barely 3.5 kg). The R-60 on attack aircraft such as the MiG-27, Su-24 or Su-25 serves as a self-defense missile, and on fighter aircraft such as the MiG-23, MiG-25, and Su-15 it is occasionally used as a supplementary missile. The R-60 missile had an unusually short development time, with only four years passing from the beginning of its design to the beginning of its production -- the normal development process of Soviet air-to-air missiles typically required 8 to 9 years. This rapid development was facilitated by the availability of a wealth of experimental data on the K-13 missile, and no new research was done for the R-60. Further developments of the R-60 include the R-60M missile, the export variant R-60MK, and the UZR-60 training version.

Source:
Global Security

Accreditation:
RaptorR3D for the image

*Original Article by TornadoADV*