: how does a air-air missile track an aircraft that is constantly changing it’s direction while also traveling supersonic?

Question

: how does a air-air missile track an aircraft that is constantly changing it’s direction while also traveling supersonic?

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Answer 1

The best analogy I can think of is how little a sniper has to move the barrel of their gun to miss. That’s about as little as a missile has to adjust in order to be on track to hit something that’s making a dramatic turn in its own feild of motion. A rocket isn’t making handbreak turns its mostly making imperceptible corrections that lead to a dramatic change in destination.