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Major Gür felt the hard jar as Captain Tamar’s F-16’s tail clipped the underside of his left wing.
A warning light flickered on for the Number Three hardpoint’s AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The rear mount broke loose, but the front one held. The partially severed wiring harness sparked once, twice, then the missile launched.
The bent rear nozzle and fins—also damaged by the collision with Captain Tamar’s Falcon—aimed the dangling Sidewinder up and to the right.
It launched directly into Major Gür’s cockpit.
Major Gür could only stare down at the long gap bisecting his leg for an instant before the Sidewinder ignition circuit fired and utterly destroyed his plane.
