But that one hit a decoy barge designed to lure the radar-guided missile away from real targets.
The nearest enemy fighter was just starting a hard climbing right turn, apparently after firing a radar-guided missile.
A radar-guided missile had just locked onto his aircraft, was tracking them now from astern.
He still had four missiles-two radar-guided missiles and two heat-seekers.
Somebody was trying to lock him up with a radar-guided missile.
It is the first time that the radar-guided missile has been used in combat.
There are three major types of radar-guided missile - active, semi-active, and passive.
The radar-guided missiles can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead to a target beyond the horizon in about two minutes.
It was a large radar-guided missile using pulse-Doppler radar against enemy bombers.
They would even fire their radar-guided missiles if their radars managed to lock onto something.