Back to your squadron of Tornadoes; first off, going low is rather unpopular these days, but regardless of altitude, squadrons don't fly 12 aircraft together except in airshows. With today's PGMs, strike packages are smaller and in high threat areas, they'd likely do a multi-axis attack thereby compounding the Air Defense problem (if it hasn't been neutralized by SEAD or AEA).

I think it would be rather compilcated to integrate MiG-31 and SA-10 FCSs. I back to an example from west. AIM-120 guidance system would be ideal for engaing targets that are detected by third party. Missile only needs data where it's now and where the target is now and speed vectors. Accuracy is increased with mid-flight target position update via datalink. As it's possible to transfer target data via datalink so it's displayed on another aircraft MFD it should be rather straight forward to transfer that data to missile, still that haven't been done. The SA-10 guidance system is based on ground control station which needs information about the missile an the target. Only that makes it's much complicated for other than launcing platform to guide the missile. Mayby it's possilbe, but I doubt it.

Q: Back to your squadron of Tornadoes; first off, going low is rather unpopular these days, but regardless of altitude, squadrons don't fly 12 aircraft together except in airshows. With today's PGMs, strike packages are smaller and in high threat areas, they'd likely do a multi-axis attack thereby compounding the Air Defense problem (if it hasn't been neutralized by SEAD or AEA) A: Fair enough. The evolution in tactics away from low-level penetration is a symptom of the West's ability to supress the air defenses at altitudes above 8,000 feet. This, in turn, may have come about due to the relative obsolence of the defending high-altitude SAM systems. Q: The SA-10 guidance system is based on ground control station which needs information about the missile an the target. Only that makes it's much complicated for other than launcing platform to guide the missile. Mayby it's possilbe, but I doubt it A: The MIG wouldn't be guiding the missiles. What I'm picturing is where the MIG datalinks to the SAM and tells it where the target is. The SAM "knows" because it can lock it's radar onto the MIG and triangulate the position of the target from that and the MIG's radar data. When the SAM fires, the ground station would controls the attack. The MIG is simply another sensor in the SAM's net.