It does not look if it was a direct hit to the front but maybe a splash damage from the 120 exploding behing him or while passing. I was also able to dodge a Aim 120 like that, when you dodge just a short moment before impact and chaff while that, the aim 120 continues and passes the plane but still explodes in a short distance form the plane by it sensors.
This still gives you damage and is combined with a lot of problems. As others already told you mostly the RIO is stunned if not flying with a human, which may be stunned or hysteric also :megalol: ... the Radar usually always non functional anymore and the engines heavily damage stuttering and dying slowly or instantly. You may sometimes be lucky to be able to continue and engage the enemy fighter with Aim 9 or Aim 54. So this might also be the end for the enemy before deciding if you can go home with this badly damaged plane or if you need to eject... which you sometimes only know after some time, while the systems are dying over a longer period...
And yes the F-14 is a bit more stable then some smaller fighters, but this is bought at other high prices like maneuverability, a missing Fly by wire and a very good level of simulation...
Mirage or F-18 Pilots can pull their sticks as hard as they want, we can't in F-14. On some dog fight training we did around two days ago, i wanted to enter the close combat with a higher G-Pull and my Force feedback was disabled at any reason, so there was no more resistance and i might have pulled the stick a bit to hard while travelling in super sonic speed. Even the enemy who was with us in teamspeak asked me what had happened just as he passed, because he even had heard the cracking of our two wings inside his cockpit :joystick::music_whistling: ... so it does loose its wing and it also happends often when beeing hit by a missile, especially the ones bigger than Aim 9!.