Wondering if the rebels have a Shilka, some flechettes would have a hard time doing more than maybe knocking-out its radar-gunsight. Meaning it could still engage in pucker-factor and open-fire during the 3-second rocket-attack.
Additionally, anyone in good enough overhead-cover to survive the PTAB-swarm would have about a six second window with which to shove an Igla up my plane's tailpipe. But again, I'm counting on pucker-factor keeping their heads down.
@Foster Duly noted
Clarification on the use of the Kh-29:
Usually they're used against high-value command and control centers,
like battalion-level assets (such as the bunkers with the radar-operators, rather than the radar-dish). An example would be to knock-out a Patriot-missile battery.
The larger Kh-59 was largely aimed at theater-level assets, like hardened airport control-towers and missile-siloes; which is why it has more explosives than a 500 pound iron bomb, these things were meant to level control-towers (and if surprise is on their side, the ready-room full of on-deck pilots) like the world trade center.
Only time they get redeployed to lesser frontline is in the event of an abort-to-secondary.
-The use of mavericks for tank-busting was usually because those tanks survived cluster-bomb strikes by being extensively dug-in under several tons of dirt, Mavericks could punch through that, the tank, and even the crew-bunker underneath it.
Once those were taken care of... well... the pilots were meant to get up-close and finish things off with shamelessly large unguided bombs.
The likelihood of some rebels owning an airbase or even a TEL for 2K12s is pretty slim.
Besides, we can dodge missiles.
