: 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

Infrared sensor on nose of missile

As soon as it, say, detects the infrared signature going to the right, it twiddles its nozzle to the right so it steers that way etc

That’s why flares work as a deterrent, they confuse it thinking there’s a hundred little planes in a cloud that it needs to track

(Pretty sure there are other ways but this is the simplest one)