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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Mao does [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWXL-Pjl0o this] to protect a helicopter full of refugees in the first episode of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] The Second Raid''. Of course, it was justified that her AS is custom-equipped with electronic warfare equipment. Plus the fact that she did this with ARF missiles which also exist in real life; according to [[The Other Wiki]], they are specifically built in a way that if someone attempts to jam them, they lock onto the jammer instead(!).
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* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'':
** Marko Ramius, the Soviet's submarine captain equivalent of an [[Ace Pilot]], does this with a ''ballistic missile submarine'', defeating not one but two torpedoes fired by a lurking "[[Reporting Names|Alfa]]"-class. The first he charges, reducing the torpedo's run distance past its safety arming setpoint and resulting in a dud; when the "Alfa"'s captain orders all safeties off the second torpedo, Ramius leads the torp back toward the boat that fired it.
{{quote|'''Alfa sonar officer:''' Torpedo is in active homing... torpedo has acquired... [[Oh Crap|(sick look)]]
'''Alfa XO:''' You arrogant ass - you've just killed ''us!'' }}
** The second torpedo actually gets misguided ''twice''; a few minutes earlier it has the ''October'' cold until the more maneuverable ''Dallas'' interposes itself then crash-surfaces to get away.
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* Inverted in the first Backfire raid on the NATO carrier battle group, in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Red Storm Rising]]''. Soviet target training missiles launched by TU-16 Badgers decoy US Navy aircraft away from their carrier group, instead of aircraft leading away missiles.
** Also played straight in the novel, where the anti-sub helicopters of the HMS ''Battleaxe'' and USS ''Reuben James'' play "decoy" to lure away anti-ship missiles from their respective ships, after it was determined that the Soviets were focusing on the escorts to make the job easier for other Soviet forces to get at the convoys the escorts were defending.
** And also played straight with the NATO convoys in general, with the use of chaff to decoy missiles away from ships. The problem was that a missile that had flown through a chaff cloud would then attempt to reacquire the closest target in its seeker head, which was
** In the Ryanverse novel ''Executive Orders'', the Chinese purposefully incite an incident with Taiwan by using this as an excuse. A Chinese pilot fires a missile at a jetliner, then claim the Taiwanese are the ones that did it. Unfortunately, they didn't realize that US intelligence capabilities were so good, allowing the Americans to point out several discrepancies with the incident, and ultimately resulting in the formal recognition of Taiwan as a legitimate country.
* Stewart Cowley's ''Terran Trade Authority'' universe - Gerling, the commander of the human forces in the Laguna Wars, reminisces about how he earned his seniority: the missiles of the assault ships in the Terran battlefleet had entered a decay cycle which would result in their unavoidable premature detonation. Unwilling simply to fire them off into the wild black yonder where they might hit unwary ships, he orders a half-built ship to be towed into orbit to act as the sacrificial target.
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** Twice in the miniseries. Apollo leads a missile away from Colonial One, saving the president, later Starbuck does the same for Apollo.
** Averted in the Season 4 premiere: There are simply [[Macross Missile Massacre|too many missiles]] and while they manage to shoot down the one heading for ''Colonial One'', ''Zephyr'', ''Astral Queen'' and a few others do end up getting hit.
* Done more than once on ''[[JAG]]''. {{spoiler|Commander Rabb put himself in front of a "dirty nuke" missile aimed at a Carrier Group after it closed too close to be shot down to lead it away until
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. Basically the entire plot of "Dreadnought", in which a sentient missile with a [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|massive anti-matter warhead]] is convinced an inhabited planet is its authorised target. In the end Captain Janeway is willing to fly Voyager into its path, but fortunately her Chief Engineer is able to deactivate the weapon in time. The plot was repeated in "Warhead"; this time the crew were able to convince the (literally "smart") weapon to blow up the other missiles and avert war.▼
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'':
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** The plot was repeated in "Warhead"; this time the crew were able to convince the (literally "smart") weapon to blow up the other missiles and avert war.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The final mission of the first ''[[Medal of Honor]]'' has you sabotage a V2 rocket, then launch it to destroy the base.
* Homing weapons in the ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' series may lock onto the originating ship if jammed, provided that weapon has a particular Boolean flag turned on in its wëap resource. The games don't feature any examples, but the modders have added them.
* In ''[[Star Control]]'' Mycon Podships can be hit by their own plasmoids guided back into them. Technically, this may happen with other guided munitions (except the few [[Friendly Fireproof]] ones), but their velocities and turn radii usually prevent it.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In the Falklands War, this was the job of a number of RN pilots in Sea King helicopters- including Prince Andrew.
** Either that or [[Margaret Thatcher|Maggie]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090217140151/http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/21/145709.shtml threatened to nuke Argentina] if not given (French made) missile deactivate codes by the then French president Francois Mitterrand.
* During the 2nd Indo-Pakistanese War (1973), an Indian Mig fired a missile at a Pakistani Mirage IIIE, but the missile shot down the Mig's wingman.
** Similar incidents were recorded during the First Gulf War.
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