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[Combat] MANPADS operators in Moscow on Jun 18. (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

maybe it will lock on to something along the way

Assuming that this is like a Stinger, I'm pretty sure that it did have a lock on something. That's that high-pitched sound you hear shortly before the operator fires

it plays when its infrared sensor sees something bright, something hot:

Stinger lock-on tone recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KSJVM9Ymck

Now, it does look like it wound up heading after something other than what the operator intended, but I believe that he had something hot in its sights at the time that he squeezed the trigger.