pilot: RB fires, Y is the main mount, and guided missiles produce the first kills

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fire_probe.sh holds each pad input in flight and photographs the HUD ammo
counters. RB moves NOSE BM 06000 -> 05956 in 4 s (~11 rounds/s, HEAT rises);
Y moves MAIN MPM 00300 -> 00299; nothing else moves either counter. So the
control mapping is measured rather than assumed, and 'we never shoot' is dead:
we shoot and miss.

The disc data says to stop shooting: Shell_TCAF_DeltaSaber_Missile_P is Power
200, GuidanceType 5 (guided), MaximumRange 5000, versus the nose gun's Power 15
unguided — one missile is worth ~14 gun hits on a 500 HP fighter and it steers
itself. Launching them (press Y, release a tick later, >=2 s apart) produced
YOU KILLED: WARPLANES 0002 — the first non-zero kill counter of the series,
against 0000 in all five gun-only runs, with hostiles down 134 -> 104.

Still only 2 kills per 98 missiles (~2%). Likely cause: the game expects a lock
before launch and an unlocked missile is wasted. Reading the lock state out of
RAM is the next step.

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