My sister who was in the Air Force, tells a story where a NK Mig attempted to shoot down a Blackbird. The story goes that when the MIG reached it’s max altitude, it nosed up and wildly fired it’s air to air missile.
The Blackbird, detecting the launch, gained even more altitude. The air to air missile eventually lost the ability to climb any more and “fell over”. At which time it started to track the only other signature it could find - the Mig.
My sister insists that the NKs are the only country that has successfully shoot down their own aircraft using a self fired missile.
F-104 Starfighters did the “self-shoot down” bit as well: Shoot down towards a target on the ground. Continuing in the dive, the aircraft (already faster than the bullets) flies below the bullet trajectories (which are slowing down slightly due to air resistance), and then the airplane has to pull up from the ground and so slows down. Bullets come from “behind” and hit the Starfighter.
Misaligned gun or mis-attached/loosened gun pod on the plane could do it too. (And may have happened here.)
By the way.
Notice that the administrators want to find out “IF” the aircrew was “ever in danger” - WHEN THE BLOODY AIRPLANE HAD BULLET HOLES IN IT! That is WHAT BULLET HOLES DO TO AIRPLANES!
Bullet holes ALWAYS put the airplane and its crew “in danger” .
Amusing story but no where near truth.
The SR-71 was shot at many times, most usually via SAMs, occasionally other jets. . .but the story you mentioned never happened.
A missile may have been launched but (if lucky) would be at max altitude and max range. . .would have been ineffective, moreover, the missile would fly out until it missed (with the motor burn-out shortly after launch).
No way the missile would have been able to fly back and “lock on” to someone because it would never be able to maneuver after expending all its energy, especially after the missile “fall(s) over” - meaning no flyable airspeed - and then get the airspeed necessary to chase a jet down with missile fins defecting (zapping energy/airspeed).