Ok so now you have to see the round in the air before it hits the ground?
How else can you tell what type of missile it was?
Stop cheerleading and use critical thinking for once. What other possible targets are around that factory? Even Russia said they were targeting it.
The missile carries a 1 ton warhead, which is more than most other weapons they have with a range over 300km, it would be most useful against very big ships and also large area targets like large buildings... like HQs and major SAM sites and comms centres and also bridges and dams and other heavy structures.
It would also be very good for doing serious damage to large factories fixing tanks or aircraft or other equipment, or making drones or engines or ammo.
It is not designed to go through a specific building window on a target like a cruise missile might, but against a factory fixing tanks precision is not critical.
But the cock suckers in the UK defence department say it is wildly inaccurate against ground targets because they are ignorant bastards who want to down play the Russian weapons that are destroying the toys of their nazis. (they are not trying to educate the general public about the real performance of a Russian weapon, they are trying to make fun of and ridicule their enemy to justify them being the enemy).
Sounds like you don't know how ARM seekers work, especially ancient ones from the 1970s that were meant to engage a specific radar and not any radar that exists.
Different types work differently. HARM for instance homed in on the signal and were largely useless when the signal switched off. The Kh-58 had a guidance communication pod that was used with it that detected the signal from the radar but triangulated the location of the radar emitter before missile launch so if the radar detected the launch or was just lucky enough to turn off after it was launched the missile would still land very close to it.
The new versions have IR sensors so radars that have recently turned off can still be hit because radars generate a lot of heat when they are working and it takes a while for them to cool down after they are turned off.
The Kh-22M has an enormous radar the size of a MiG-21s radar so its ability to see ships and large structures like buildings in the active radar homing version is excellent... you can't hit a tank or aircraft factory with an anti radiation seeking missile but the radar guided missile can see ships and large buildings because that is their primary target.
The Russians constantly update their missiles and their anti ship missiles have all had upgrades to allow land based targets to be engaged too, but as the Tu-22M3 is a theatre strike bomber/missile carrier it always had missiles that could engage ground targets.
The largest number of missiles the Tu-22M3 can carry at once is 10 missiles and that is 10 x Kh-15 nuclear armed rocket powered short range land attack missiles that don't come in an anti ship version... they are all nuclear armed which is why they were withdrawn from service, but their nuclear role was for land as well as sea... they use inertial guidance and detonate at a coordinate... either near the ground to take out an airfield or SAM site or Comms centre or HQ, or a ship or group of ships, or in the air to take out a whole group of interceptors or aircraft flying in formation.
Normally they are used to destroy air defences (SAMS and interceptor aircraft) so the aircraft can get to its launch position to fire off cruise missiles.
Sounds like you don't know how ARM seekers work, especially ancient ones from the 1970s that were meant to engage a specific radar and not any radar that exists.
Yes there is. It was developed later on to deal with jammers and other threats allowing the use of passive guidance to sink ships amongst active radar homing missiles.
After the first wave of missiles were hitting targets decoys and jammers and chaff would be everywhere along with SAMs and other missiles so the second and subsequent waves of missiles would include missiles running on passive radar homing to take down AEGIS class ships trying to defend the carriers... they did not emit anything and it was hoped they might sneak through in the confusion and seriously weaken the air defences.
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