"Rob van Riel" wrote in message
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Not necessarily (although I don't have enough details to be certain).
If I recall correctly, standard doctrine was to fire both an IR and a
radar missile at any given target, to insure at least on hit. The
communications transcript I have shows the pilot firing both missiles
at the same time. Whether this was due to the mentioned doctrine, or
to a hunch/calculations that a single missile would be insufficient, I
don't know.

IIRC the plane wasn't disabled until the second one hit.