ObserverQM / Retaliation gunship anon, I know you have gifs in your quests I thought you might like this game mathematics / programming article about missiles hehe. I actually learnt the name of that "anime missile swarm effect" the one with the sinuous curving trajectory twisting contrail blizzard attack you see in Armored Core and many mech / spaceship games etc, it is apparently colloquially called Itano Circus originally from Macross. But this article shows how to make it with quaternions
https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/missile/ 