[Serpiko]

Very good and interesting information Max. Thank you.
That wire guided missile on the Lerche and TA 183 is one wicked weapon. I don't think that the NATO bombing campaign can stand up to it. I'll have to figure out a way to use it for a while and then have it disappear.
I'm thinking of having the head missile designer die along with his creations in a MI6 sneak attack. The freeking AI gets 75% kill ration with it against B29s. It really is devastating.

If I can suggest, alternatively to project leader assassination, you could dedicate a specific mission to neutralization of the missile threat.

Let's suppose that wired missiles require components/technology which is not yet available in the USSR. So, while building their own production plants, the Russians are forced to product missiles only in those german factories they captured. These factories must necessarily be in former german territory, in the Alps, or maybe in Hungary... anyway, they're somewhat close to the front line. If western intelligence can locate the factories, they're likely to become primary targets for a massive air attack, be it a high altitude large scale carpet bombing, a low level night raid, or both of them.

Once captured factories have been destroyed, Russians find themselves shorts on missiles, 'cause they're not able to start homeland production yet. So they have to save their remaining missiles, first equipping only flight leaders with them, and eventually using missiles only to defend extremely critical objectives.

Do you think this scenario is plausible?

PS Besides, I easily figure out a missile engineer (no matter if russian or german) who, willing to escape from communist domination, defects to the west trading missile projects for his own protection.