Follow Up: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/sa-6.htm The SA-6 passive electro/optical measures uses a television optical magnification image to ID and predict where the target will be, if the target aircraft does not maneuver or change course often. This lack of maneuver capability of the B-52 made it vunerable to the SA-2 over Hanoi.

I would think that if the missile followed this "go high - look down" profile, every single AWACs and Aegis system operator in the area would have piss in their pants and tell all the pilots they're directing about it. It might work better with a supersonic cruise missile, which has longer loiter time and some speed.

I posted something about this about 2 months ago, there was an article in Proceedings about the "find" Theere was some concern then that although none appeared to have been fired "in anger" that an initial launchg would have caused some headaches as there did not appear to be an existing process to counter them. They would have momentarily spooked the AWACs. The main issue for Proceedings was that the Iraqis didn't have the capability to do the mods, and that some sympathetic major power had to build the hybrid. There was a pic in the article showing half a dozen packed into the back of a truck.