Q: Air to surface version of the German X-4?

[Stan in YUL]

Hi All, have any heard or see of such a development?  It doesn't seem like a very far stretch of the tech.  Certainly the French followed the idea in post war.

Thanks in advance.

Stan

[The Wooksta!]

They had a number of SAMs under development anyway, too many in fact and most were cancelled early 1945 by Kammler.

[Dizzyfugu]

IIRC, the British-Australian Malkara ATGM was a direct development from the X-4's concept, but it was ground-based. The French SS.11 was a wire-guided ATGM, too, and it was deployed from helicopters and slow aircraft in the Fifties.
Problem certainly is/was that the missile needed active guidance, and doing this while flying an aircraft at low level and maybe under enemy fire certainly does not sound like an effective weapon?

[Stan in YUL]

The American Bullpup was active guidance with flares as a tracking aid.  Always figured an air to surface version had to be cooking.

[PR19_Kit]

Surely the Bullpup WAS an air-to-ground weapon already?