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I figured that’s what happened. I guess I’m just overly perplexed at the odds of this. I can’t see why the radar lost lock in the first place considering the bandit was above me and coming in very hot. Could I have been throwing the plane around too hard? As for it picking up someone else — It was a busy day on the server, so probably not crazy there happened to be a guy behind him. But 40 miles behind? The MEM function should be able to look for the target at the correct distance too, right? Obviously the guy 50 miles away is not the guy I just fox3’d on... I’ve been finding the Hornet radar very awkward when it comes to acquiring a lock, but this is the first time it failed me in a life-or-death scenario. I know ED is trying to simulate a realistic, non-perfect radar compared to the FC3 planes but I can’t really tell if stuff like this is a bug for a feature for that reason.

Been having a frustrating experience with the hornet lately... here's a video of my last encounter: https://streamable.com/1baij It looks like right before the missile goes active my radar lost lock and then switched to a target 50 miles away. I never went brought the gimbal further than 65 degrees off... Needless to say I lost that fight. Am I doing something wrong here or is this just the hornet being buggy?

Glad to see someone else making this observation. It seems to me that for anything the size of the AIM-9 or larger has a very high fatality rate for my pilot. This includes being hit directly behind or on the underside of the aircraft. Of course I have no doubt that being hit by a missile is a huge danger for the pilot, but sometimes I contemplate if I should just eject a few seconds before that AMRAAM hits me. To me, surviving the flight even in defeat is a great satisfaction on its own.