>>63823786Yeah, at least the older ones were probably made to shoot down high-flying Cold War era bombers & fighter escorts, and have some capability against ballistic missiles (e.g. the Scud), but I don't think they're too effective against anything more subtle than that.
Hell, some of the older missile variants have barely any homing ability by modern standards, relying on command guidance or semi-active radar homing, which will fail badly if the radar's struggling to even track the target. A modern missile like this typically couples all sorts of seeking techniques, and might pack an AESA radar + multispectral optics along with a data link to command guide it closer to the target if the missile can't immediately lock on at launch. Compared to that, this old Soviet shit's like shooting blindly into the darkness (which probably isn't helped by how bad these turdies tend to be at organizing and communicating).