missile lock
Radar has you
Missile lock is the condition achieved when a weapon's guidance system has acquired and is actively tracking a target, enabling the missile to be fired with a high probability of intercept.
Fighter pilots hear a distinctive tone when their targeting radar achieves lock: I've got missile lock—fox two!
The term extends to any situation where someone or something has become an unavoidable target: Once the media got missile lock on the scandal, his career was over.
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- targetObject of pursuit
- dead aheadDirectly in one's path
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- heat-seekingAttracted to warmth sources
heat signature · acquisition · tone · tone deaf · warning · hostile · fighter · jet · cockpit · evasive maneuvers · chaff · flares · dogfight · intercept · infrared · guidance · alert · beeping
- Air Combatair strike, airstrikes, fighter pilot, bombing run, combat aircraft
- fighter pilot termsfighter jets, interceptors, dogfighting, scramble, combat air patrol
- Dogfightingdogfight, barrel roll, wingman, bandit, six o'clock
- aviation hazardsbird strike, engine failure, icing, midair collision, pilot error
- Fighter Pilotsace, fighter ace, flying ace, combat pilot, dogfighter
missile lockbroken lock
Damaged securing mechanism
evasion · standby mode · untracked · jammed · cold
missile lockall clear
Signal danger has passed
safe · clear skies · cold · disengagement · disengaged
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