Beagle, of course the fighter jocks lie. The only way to prove the missile would have worked was to fire it, like the F4-Jag Fox 2.
Quite agree going beam on would have worked. Also I didn't say he went Fox 1 at 20 miles. He WENT to 20 miles and then ran in calling Fox 1.
We did not know he was even coming back so we were just in a standard orbit.