With any luck, that would confuse the radar picture, and perhaps mislead the Tomcat into keeping the missile locked on the chaff rather than his aircraft.

Fitzhugh then confronts Nicolae where he activates a personal transmitter (and dials Carolyn's cell phone, where she hears the entire conversation), hoping to obliterate the entire GC headquarters, and himself, with a missile locked onto the transmitter's location.

It would take some fantastic maneuvering to avoid a missile locked onto you at the speeds they were traveling.

There was a missile locked on to him - judging by its tone, a Sidewinder.

With one missile locked on his tail, Colonel Abunnasr Manesh simultaneously pulled the control stick and enabled the flare dispenser by depressing a button on the control column.

Working quickly, he selected a second missile, locked on a second target, and fired.

The torpedo carried by that missile locked on to its target immediately.