At 200 V sub C and 179 Kts at 1000 ft range, what's your next plan if you miss?
Is the reticle a hard sight or a CCIP?
If it's a tracking shot, it looks like a miss to me. A snapshot?
High deflection, 1.7 G, no lead, nose low, flight path marker buried even lower, 179 ias, huge HCA, no energy . . .
Gun kill? I doubt it. Looks more like a stall recovery. Any bullets coming out of that airplane are going to the bottom of the screen.
Hornet was probably already a mort and Raptor was moving on to next target.
AA Cunningham keeps putting out that silly photo. Somebody explain to him what "lead" is - he seems unclear on the concept. Anybpdy can bunt a reticle dot on the target - it doesn't mean the bullets are going there. He just can't accept the fact that the Navy is stuck with old, non-stealthy aircraft. He should stop embarrassing himself.
AMEN!!
I see YOU can do the photo-interpretation that I can only guess at!