I would have thought the mast mounted system would be best for IR guided missiles and due to the short range of these missiles the smoke trail would not give a helo much time to react.
I thought years ago that a Soviet Kilo was seen with a strange box on a mast and people thought this could have been a SA7 attachment.
Oh I played the original "Red Storm Rising" subsim on my Commodore 64 and that had mast mounted stingers on the USS Seawolf class.
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