: how does a air-air missile track an aircraft that is constantly changing it’s direction while also traveling supersonic?
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Why does everyone think a missile can out turn a jet? It assure you it cannot.
Air to Air missiles generally travel about Mach 4. They are long round narrow tubes with little stubby wings on them. It’s like an arrow. Yes, there is no human in it to be subject to G forces, however, The missile’s speed combined with a lack of substantial winged surface area make tight turns an impossibility. Most jets top off well below Mach 2 and almost their entire surface is a lifting body. A jet’s turning radius is WELL below that of a missile. The problem a jet has is that it’s traveling too slow. Missiles don’t chase & catch up to jets in a turn. They cut them off.
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