>>63931109
The missile needs to acquire the target with its onboard seeker first, for which it needs to slow down against the atmosphere via a pull-up maneuver, which happens in the lower and denser air, and only after that can the now significantly slowed down missile home in on the target using very limited altitude, speed and gliding surface, resulting in a tiny correction radius. Against a fast and actively maneuvering target from a considerable distance away the probability of actually lobbing the missile in the right area is nothing short of guesswork.
>and why it makes it impossible to hit a ship
I love it when fags know they lost the argument so they created a blatant strawman as a last cop-out.