If I'm not wrong range is the arrow on the left. So some 170km. The 214 number is something like time before impact.
The R-37M is a mach 5 plus missile so 214 seconds at mach 5 means the target interception point is 344km away.
Goid missile but the targets are su-27, su-24 and mig-29 from soviet union with outdated RWR and jammers. Against a more modern fighter, long range shots will be far less lucky.
A very high speed long range missile is hard to deal with because you might get scanned and tracked but you could be tracked by anything at all... it could be in the opposite direction of the aircraft launching the missile.
An active radar homing missile does not require the target to be illuminated at all so detection and a short period of tracking to see where you are and where you are going and how fast. The missile can be launched and it will head to an intercept point where your aircraft is going to be when it arrives in a couple of minutes. The platform that detected you can scan a minute later to see where you are and what you are doing and refine the intercept point, which the missile will adjust to but wont reveal its presence so the target has no idea what is on its way.
Long range missiles are lofted to high altitude and dive on the target... they might light up their radars to find the target at 15km range, and moving at about 1.6km/s that gives you 10 seconds to do something about it. It will have home on jam capacity and will be coming down from a fairly steep dive so you will be not very stealthy no matter what type of aircraft you are.
You can easily outrun a long range missile if launch at max range by going away from it but you need to know it was launched ir just go hide behind a mountain.
You wont know it is coming till it is diving down on your estimated position... you will likely have 10 seconds or less warning from its active radar signals.
Coming down from high angle unless you fly into a tunnel or a cave a mountain is not going to help you.
Jamming should also make tracking disruptive.
Jamming gives it a cue to where you are.
That's why they need to quickly introduce R-77M which has less range but is more agile in medium/short distances fights than r-37M.
Which missiles they have in service is secret... I would be very surprised if they have not already tested R-77Ms, and in fact I would be rather surprised if they did not have a scramjet powered R-77 close to testing stage... though they might not want to risk compromising the design while the west is still struggling with a working scramjet design. The R-37 certainly fills the gap.
It is not like the R-33, which was designed to hit large aircraft that cannot manouver... like bombers and cruise missile carriers as well as JSTARS and recon platforms as well as inflight refuelling aircraft and troop transports.
The R-37 can engage targets pulling 8g... mainly through its directed fragmentation warhead that targets the aircraft in the last milisecond.
An IIR version of r-37M with the same datalink as the radar version would be good against stealthy targets or active jamming aircraft. Could also be cheaper as ARH is quite expensive.
Very much agree and I suspect the replacement Izd 815 will be a fully multiband weapon with IIR and LLLTV seeker with a passive and active radar sensor to make evasion and defeat of the missile rather complicated.
More modern data processor and digital signal processor along with other electronics and further refining of search and track algorithms would certainly get better resolution and possibility of tracking and engaging more targets simultaneously.
One of the problems with the early model Zaslon was processing power because the PESA had an enormous volume of airspace it could scan, it needed to cover an enormous volume of airspace. Upgrades to the Zaslon-M were mostly electronic processing improvement that doubled the volume and increased the number of targets that could be detected and tracked. Further upgrades and of course more memory would allow more information to be processed and stored and used, further increasing performance without any hardware changes to the transmit and receive elements. Of course further improvements to those components will also increase accuracy and resolution as well.
It will likely also have new operating modes added including ground mapping to higher resolutions too.
The original R-37 dates back to the 80's and by then it was able to destroy air targets 300 km away.
The target was detected and tracked by another platform... an Su-30 of the PVO, with target information transmitted to the MiG-31 that launched the missile. The distance travelled by the missile to hit the target was 300km.
To reach 400km it does need to be launched at mach 2.5 and at altitudes of 18km, which means by MiG-31 really, but the Su-35 and other 4++ gen fighters can launch to probably 250-300km depending on height and speed at launch.
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