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Jeez, how could a fucking jet engine have a heat signature? This will take 50 billion dollars to figure
And I'm guessing the plane didn't notify the pilot they had a lock on either
yeah there is nothing coming out of the infrared tracker to warn the plane, it's basically just a camera
which also means there's no signature for the empire to lock onto and take out with SEAD weapons
The most interesting part is that there's no attempt at evasion and no attempt at flares either. They not only didn't know they were being targeted, they also did not know that a missile was fired at them. They failed to identify the incoming threat at all.
maybe they're accepting those new planes with gym weights instead of radars because it doesn't make much difference either way
its worse than that. Apparently this anti-air system uses both a heat and sight picture to lock on and track. There's never any real warning to the F35 because it's not being painted with radar or lasers or nothing. If they launch flares or chaff, no problem, whichever target acquisition system gets confused it falls back to the other.
Developed and deployed effectively within a year, by the way.
Strapping a 2018 cell phone to your missile and adjusting the face tracking squares to look for an f35 then wiring the auto focus to the stabilizers
Nokia-based guidance.
spending eleventy trillion to research this crank theory that the empire is bound by the same laws of physics as everyone else