Fighter jets top of at Mach 6.7, they ain't hitting that. And the jets will target the entire rocket, so if the rocket gets damaged far enough, it goes boom, killing everyone on board.
Catapults can be easily destroyed, and even if there's a few in the sky, it's like picking off paper with an M134, it's completely brutal for the opposing end. And for this case, the killmotes are the paper, and the F16 Tomcat is the M134.
Easily out-maneuvered. Fighter pilots are trained to fight weather conditions like heavy winds and heavy rain. So tornadoes and Hurricanes are useless to fight a Fighter Jet.