• Ilovethebomb
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    1 year ago

    The fuel tanks are in the wings on most planes, they’re not that hard to hit.

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      1 year ago

      I would love to see you hit a flying plane, anywhere on the body at all, with a 9mm

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        1 year ago

        Did you know, other people have planes as well?

        True story, I even found one out in the woods hunting blackberries.

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        1 year ago

        Just be in a flying plane at the exact same speed and acceleration so that in your reference frame it becomes easy

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          I’m actually a little curious how screwy bullets fly when they’re shot perpendicular to a high speed. Door gunners on a chopper are the closest I can think of, but I’m not sure how accurate they are in general and I don’t know how less a 7.62 round would lose course vs a 9mm.

          Edit: The guns on an AC-130 or any comparable craft would probably be moving faster, but from my vast military knowledge of Call of Duty, I know that the rounds they fire are even larger.

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          1 year ago

          That doesn’t change the fact that you’re not going to hit an object going 125mph at 9000’

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            It absolutely does. Airplanes were being shot down in Vietnam with an SKS firing 7.62 rounds. Now, the question at that point would be do you want someone lobbing bullets into the sky so they can fall back down and potentially hurt someone or damage something? Absolutely not. But it’s not only possible, it has been done before.

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              1 year ago

              The planes dropping napalm were flying low, not damn near 2 miles up.

              You can think you’re john wick all you want, it’s not fucking happening

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                1 year ago

                You’ve put far too much time and effort into something nobody else is taking seriously.

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                  1 year ago

                  Ah yes, the extensive time and effort of typing a handful of sentences

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        1 year ago

        If I was standing right at the end of the runway I’d quite fancy my chances.