3 points:
- This picture nicely shows what happens (talking about missile-1), just one part of the equation is missing here...
... instead of the theoretical path, missile actually flies the kinematical path.
(if you look at the the picture more closely, you can see that the missile started left turn earlier.)
- Another problem is that Google Earth is displaying events only by seconds, and interpolates between.
(What you see on Karat is the real missile flight path, and it is much flatter at Google Earth)
- As we are discussing HALF Lead instead of FULL lead, the targeted impact point is not fixed at the target path, but moving in the direction where the target flies, as the missile is getting closer.
So, you believe this is the right behaviour and no bug? Does any officer confirms that?
EDIT: As the target is traveling with a almost constant speed, the system must calculate the impact point.... Because of the 4 degrees limit, the missile will go to this limit and when the point of impact (PoI) appears to be inside this 4 degrees angle, the missile will go for it... Here we have a factor which is the distance between missile and target (PoI). I think this is the factor which is the most important for the calculation....
