After firing an AIM-54 on a TWS track with datalink active, it’s extremely common to see the TWS track transfer to missiles fired by the victim aircraft which drags the AIM-54 off of the original target onto the missile track, almost certainly causing a miss.
Against targets with a closure rate below 400-500 m/s that are nearly beaming, this kinda makes sense? If they turn completely hot into a headon, they could maybe create the appearance of a 3g acceleration (i.e., around the ~3.5g launch acceleration of an AIM-54 coming off the rail) if they swing from 45 degrees aspect to straight head-on at >1.0M within 3ish seconds (not sure this is even possible).
But when the target already has a closure rate of >700 m/s (i.e., both planes doing 1.0M or greater in a head-on) there is absolutely no reason the TWS should accept a multiple-G acceleration for the current track and should either:
- never lose the track on the aircraft OR
- snap back as soon as the missile sustains that acceleration for more than a few seconds.
And this isn’t just limited to biting off on AIM-54 launches from the victim aircraft - TWS guidance tracks regularly transfer to Fakour/AMRAAM/etc. launches that all have >5g launch acceleration.