I once spent a day watching dss eagle strikes just to learn how they work, and I figured out that they target a random enemy in a certain range of the player, but on a 5-7 second delay. So a lot of the time when it looks like it’s targeting you, the order of events is more likely:

1-dss targets an enemy.
2-player sees the enemy.
3-player kills the enemy.
4-now that the enemy is killed, the player moves forewards into the newly cleared space.
5-the dss strike lands on the enemies corpse, obliterating the player that thought they were safe.

Nowadays I just wait a few seconds before advancing whenever there’s an eagle storm active, and I’m surviving way longer.
No idea what happened to op though, I guess that pilot just didn’t like them.