: 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 missile is much faster and can turn far quicker than the aircraft. so much so that a simple program of “point nose towards heat source” is probably enough to get the missile to hit (or explode nearby causing the fragments to hit the plane)