“Let me just stand on this traffic congested road full of cars and people and randomly fire my MANPAD, maybe it will lock on to something along the way.”
Also loving that no matter in which direction the camera pointed the entire horizon is covered in smoke from countless fires. That area got absolutely devastated.
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:
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.
“Let me just stand on this traffic congested road full of cars and people and randomly fire my MANPAD, maybe it will lock on to something along the way.”
Also loving that no matter in which direction the camera pointed the entire horizon is covered in smoke from countless fires. That area got absolutely devastated.
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.