• Alto
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      10 months ago

      If a cop managed shoot the gas tank on a flying plane, I wouldn’t even be mad if I died in that crash

          • @[email protected]
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            810 months ago

            Did you know, other people have planes as well?

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

          • @[email protected]
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            410 months 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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              10 months ago

              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.

          • Dr. Dabbles
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            310 months ago

            Cops have a LOT of rifles, not just hand guns. 🤷‍♂️

            • Alto
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              010 months ago

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

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                110 months ago

                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.

                • Alto
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                  110 months 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

        • Alto
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          010 months ago

          I can’t tell if you’re joking or not

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        310 months ago

        Oh I don’t think it will be the police you need to worry about.

        And I’m pretty sure even the smallest militaries have AA guns at this point.