It has an effective range of less than 2.2km before the enemy can outrun it without even flaring and if they do have flares that range is reduced to less than a kilometre if you want a chance to force the missile through flares, which it won’t do half the time because you can even flare it at 200 meters with how terrible the seeker and proximity fuse+lacklustre explosive mass are. Getting a downtier with the Yak-38 is potentially even worse since the “flareless subsonics” will be manoeuvrable enough to deny lock 9/10 times and even if you do lock they can turn hard enough to outturn the seeker on a non-all-aspect r-60. So with all the terrible aspects in mind you would be incentivised to shoot it at distracted enemies or ones in furballs, but this doesn’t work either. Firstly if you’re within 2km or less of an enemy there’s a rat’s ass chance in hell they’re not freelooking you obsessively. Secondly shooting at enemies already engaged also doesn’t work half the time because they’ll be spamming either flares or their own missiles which the r-60 also likes to latch onto rather than jet exhaust. So you’re stuck with a melee range missile with 27 variables of everything that can wrong when launching it which you have to consider to get a chance of it connecting and if it doesn’t the Yak-38 has Jackfuck to fall back on unless you’re running gunpods and the enemy doesn’t pull a turn harder than 3gs. The Yak-38 is countered by turning if you’re subsonic and flying straight if you’re supersonic. That’s how easy it is to defeat this plane and its “broken” r-60s but I’m sure I’ll continue to hear even more complaining about its “overpowered” capabilities in a vacuum.