The paper presents the concept of programmed control of the designed optical target seeker in the phase of searching the air space. The controlling of the programmed movements of the seeker axis has been developed with simultaneous consideration of the process of scanning of the air space by an optoelectronic system of the device. Numerical analysis of the dynamics of the proposed optical scanning seeker as well as the analysis of selection of velocity and suitable trajectories of the displacement of its axis were conducted. The results were presented in a graphical form.