Originally Posted by Rosevidney1
The yield was tiny
Not by air-to-air missile standards it wasn't. Your average AAM is a big handgranade with some fragmentation and, sometimes, a pyrophoric component. Nothing like that big bang, I assure you. By nuke standards, yes it was small, which I'm sure is what you mean. In terms of only needing to get close to your target, it was very different to your average AIM-120, etc.