Yeah… you have to notch the aircraft radar and the missile radar at the same time, especially if the launching plane cranks so they have different angles on you… I had not considered that, but dose the DL in WT have any input during the terminal phase? and is there any difference between missiles? R-77s IRL don’t even activate the DL under a certain range, while AAM-4 uses a “fuzzy logic” system to analyze the seeker input, the datalink info and its IOG to try to predict what is the real target through countermeasures…
If you watch a replay in sensor view it’ll tell you what mode a missile is in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a missile in TRK+IOG+DL but I haven’t watch enough to say for certain there are none that do that.