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This happens quite a lot but it is going to be a bit tricky to prove because it is hard to make a save before but it happens.
In the screenshot the flight Rumble 11 has launched two Meteors at one Su-27. At the same moment one missile hits the Su-27 a KA-29 helicopter that is nowhere near but at the same vector is also hit by the second missle.

The "proof" that the helicopter wasn't targeted and did no evasion is that the impact angle is rear-olicque. Helicopters usaly turn 90 degrees to an incoming missle

I think that is a WAD, and this is a feature since CMANO. When ARH active it's radar anything inside it's radar search cone can be targeted (except friendly units).

That's the reason why I usually use single plane or a loose formation in my CAP mission. I have seen a lot of cases in which the first ARH missile shot down the flight leader, then the 2nd ARH pass through the wreck and slammed into the wingmen.

The "proof" that the helicopter wasn't targeted and did no evasion is that the impact angle is rear-olicque.

FYI, If the A/C did not detect the incoming missiles it will not conduct defensive maneuver.
Another possible explanation is the A/C can neither detect the accurate location of the missiles nor read the incoming missile's speed but think he can outrun the missile, that happen very often for those have poor cockpit visibility.

Yeah I knew this was goning to be a tough one to explain. It is not that the missile misses the aircraft and then procced to target the helicopter. The missile never travel the distance beetween the Su-27 and the KA-29, it is instantly teleported to the helicopter. As you can see in the screenshot the impacts are at exactly the same time. The two missiles where fired at the same time so that would be impossible.

The Helicopter is an AEW so it can detect missiles

I realized the Title of this thread was misleading so I changed it

Yup. I've seen this too. In my case it seemed that both aircraft were destroyed—the one that was actually hit and the one much farther away along the same vector.

It is definitely not WAD.