If the target aircraft could stay ahead of it until its fuel was exhausted, the missile would fall into the sea.
The target aircraft effectively flies right into the weapon(s) fired at it.
A missile's effective range is dependent on factors such as altitude, speed, position, and direction of target aircraft.
I believe the target aircraft got a visual on us.
"Some of them home on the heat from the target aircraft's engine, while others use radar."
Generally, a long focus photographic lens is necessary due to the greater distance between the photographer and the target aircraft.
How far is your closest air or sea craft from the target aircraft?
It passed the target aircraft too far away to trigger the proximity fuse.
This remote controlled target aircraft completed its maiden flight on 14 July 1939.
It provides 3-D tracking of target aircraft and also measures rainfall intensity.
A l aptop computer recovered from the safe house contained data that coul d be used to target aircraft for hijacking operations.
They are typically infrared homing weapons and used to target helicopters and other low-flying aircraft.
On 8 November 2008 after more than 50 hours of deliberations, the jury did not find any of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft.
Major problems were associated with the failure of air defense, but also with the eagerness with which Soviet fighters and artillery targeted American aircraft.
Due to PL-2s' fuse is designed to target larger aircraft, these attempts were unsuccessful to some degree.
"If we let the Spy One run the engagement, we can target and engage more incoming missiles and aircraft than any ship in the Navy."
The missile system can target aircraft up to 30 km away, at altitudes up to 18,000 m.
Since January 1999 there have been 1 200 attempts to target aircraft with surface-to-air missiles or anti-aircraft weapons.
To do this requires very specialized equipment and a desire to deliberately target aircraft.
They target aircraft at specific markets.