Since when are AIM-7Fs ARH and have a radar of their own?

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I locked an enemy F-20A and launched an AIM-7F and the enemy flew in front of an ally but my radar lock was still on him the entire time and not once did it lock my ally and when the enemy flew away my radar was still tracking the enemy but my AIM-7F chose to go for my teammate for some weird reason like it has its own radar and can choose what target to hit.
This is dumb and should be fixed.

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Your radar beam illuminates a lot more than just the plane you’re locked on to. And semi-active radar missiles can track those other signals.

This is why you don’t fire radar missiles towards teammates.

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Shouldn’t SARH missiles follow the guidance commands of the launching vehicle tho?
I was clearly locked on to the enemy and missile should’ve listened to my radar and yet it went on its own.

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There are no guidance commands unless you have a datalinked missile like the aim7P.

Your radar paints a target, and the missile sees the return signals and tracks them.

It did listen to your radar, but your radar is painting multiple targets

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Think of your planes radar as a light shining into the darkness to illuminate a target and the missile as a half blind dog that only sees the shapes of the targets the radar is illuminating. If you illuminate a target with your radar and there are other planes close by the missile sees them too. The missile can’t distinguish between friend or foe and sometimes it follows the wrong target.

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And even in the case of datalink missiles. They will shut off the datalink once they acquire a target of their own. Basically the missile thinks it acquired the right target and stops listening to the host aircraft (ARH missiles will do this as well).

They will listen again to the datalink if their own lock has broken again, in case of SARH you can do this easily by just dropping the lock altogether and trying to relock the intended target. But it’s also possible for the missile to reacquire the wrong target again.

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