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Ataka was modernised to enable its wider use on platforms... originally it was only used on the Hind, which already had the command antenna for controlling the missile as it was also used for the Shturm that preceded it.
The Mi-28 also had the nose thimble for controlling ataka and shturm missiles, and there was a small light patrol boat that also had Shturm/Ataka launchers and a thimble mounted on the mast to control the missile.
It was light and cheap and quite accurate with a decent little punch.
Now however shturm is largely used up and the replacement for ataka has arrived in the form of the Krisantema... my initial understanding of the Kris is that it was SARH where a pencil radar beam is directed at the target and the missile homes in on the reflections... but there is obviously no nose mounted radar sensing antenna in the missiles so I rather suspect there is a tail mounted radar beam sensor and that it probably works like a laser beam homing missile... it looks back at the launch platform to sense its position in the beam and manouvers itself to centre itself.
If that is the case then to carry both the Krisantema and the Ataka, you would need three types of guidance options... the radio command thimble, a radar, and a laser beam for a laser beam riding missile.
By converting the ataka to laser beam riding as well as radio command guidance it means all current uses of the ataka can continue to use it, while new systems that don't have the command guidance thimble like the BMPT Terminator and the Mi-28NM can operate both ataka and krisantema... with laser beam riding... which seems to be pretty standard on most new and upgraded Russian aircraft and armoured vehicles, or radar tracking like the new helos... and interesting to note the new UAVs that will operate tethered to Russian armoured vehicles include thermal and radar... perhaps UAV deployment will extend to guiding ATGMs from standoff ranges.
Such missiles are certainly ideal for UCAV use as they are fast and pack a decent punch with good accuracy and relatively low cost.
The Mi-28 also had the nose thimble for controlling ataka and shturm missiles, and there was a small light patrol boat that also had Shturm/Ataka launchers and a thimble mounted on the mast to control the missile.
It was light and cheap and quite accurate with a decent little punch.
Now however shturm is largely used up and the replacement for ataka has arrived in the form of the Krisantema... my initial understanding of the Kris is that it was SARH where a pencil radar beam is directed at the target and the missile homes in on the reflections... but there is obviously no nose mounted radar sensing antenna in the missiles so I rather suspect there is a tail mounted radar beam sensor and that it probably works like a laser beam homing missile... it looks back at the launch platform to sense its position in the beam and manouvers itself to centre itself.
If that is the case then to carry both the Krisantema and the Ataka, you would need three types of guidance options... the radio command thimble, a radar, and a laser beam for a laser beam riding missile.
By converting the ataka to laser beam riding as well as radio command guidance it means all current uses of the ataka can continue to use it, while new systems that don't have the command guidance thimble like the BMPT Terminator and the Mi-28NM can operate both ataka and krisantema... with laser beam riding... which seems to be pretty standard on most new and upgraded Russian aircraft and armoured vehicles, or radar tracking like the new helos... and interesting to note the new UAVs that will operate tethered to Russian armoured vehicles include thermal and radar... perhaps UAV deployment will extend to guiding ATGMs from standoff ranges.
Such missiles are certainly ideal for UCAV use as they are fast and pack a decent punch with good accuracy and relatively low cost.
