[tester756]

I do wonder what happens if the missile runs out of memory

It just drops?

[michaelmrose]

Presumably undefined unless specifically designed to fail safe but a logical thought would be it keeps burning at present trajectory until it falls and blows up at end of trajectory if device uses an impact fuse. I would be very interested in a more precise answer if you can find one.

https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/why-do-some-missiles-e...

[rootsudo]

There's a star trek episode about such a thing, https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warhead_(episode)

Apparently it will "hijack" more memory and attempt to reconstruct it's orders.

But, real world, I would say that data corruption would occur and outside of chemical/physics, it will just drop and lockup.

May have a failsafe to detonate, but that is a fun question indeed.