Pantsir S1 missiles tracking bug

The Pantsir S1 unique radar mode and guidance mode are not working correctly. When tracking a plane with a direct track lock any weapons bigger than 80mm will automatically be recognized by the radar as secondary targets. If you fire a missile at your primary lock, any of these trackable weapons like bombs, AGM65, Kh38, Kh25, Kh29 or any large weapon will automatically make your missile switch to these “secondary” locks without you doing anything. So when a plane fires their weapon after you fired a Pantsir missile at them, the missile Pantsir fired will track the secondary lock on the weapon instead of the primary lock which is the aircraft. This results in very frustrating situations where your missiles just feel useless since people can fire any weapon at anything and your missile goes for it for no reason what so ever. I am certain this is a bug since this didnt happen when the Pantsir S1 was added to the game but it has been a issue this upadate “Firebirds” and it was happening sometimes in the previous update.

I have tested this in a custom battle with a friend to show what happenes in actual battles:
Test #1 Head on approach Pantsir S1 test#1 - Clipped with Medal.tv
Test #2 Side aspect Pantsir S1 test#2 - Clipped with Medal.tv

In both tests the result is the same, Pantsir missiles switch target and auto lead track the enemy missiles. It also seems the change the guidance mode from LOS to LEAD mode without players input and midflight too. This cant be accurate in any way and it a very annoying bug to deal with since the only option you have is to not use the radar at all on the Pantsir which is not logical at all.
I hope this can get to the developers and get fixed soon.

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