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Can't ticket what you can't catch (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago* (33 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (30 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (28 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    And they make very difficult targets when they are flying over 80m/s and half a kilometer in the air

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    So wait until they either land or take off.

    Come on dude, this is basic stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    They're not hard targets when they fly right over your house. Hell, if anything, I had to time my antbed explosions away from the time they'd fly.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, wtf are antbed explosions?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    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 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    But what if the runway was a treadmill?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    Planes take off at a given air speed, not ground speed, so that wouldn't affect anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Did you not catch the reference, or are you dedicated to not having fun with this? 😆

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