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

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: 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 missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasnt; it now is.

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