The military doesn’t like airspace violations much…
Doesn’t really matter which country.
It happened to a friend (with a pilot license I precise).
He was flying a small two seat aircraft and got contacted through the radio and for asked if he was ok to do a exercice with military aircraft.
He agreed so soon after two fighter jet arrived on his left and right. To be able to fly at the same speed as him they were almost standing vertically. They directed him for a bit without any radio contact, then thanked him through the radio and left.
They were doing a exercise to direct someone with no radio contact.
I’m reminded of Mathias Rust. The guy is very lucky he wasn’t shot down.
Holy shit. Yeah, he’s incredibly lucky to not be a pink mist. Still did 14months of a 4 year sentence in a labour camp though.
Me when I launch my paddleboard without my permit. Who’s gonna stop me? The water cops? (Yes, yes they will 😞)
Where do you live that you need a permit to paddleboard?
PA, as with kayaks I need a launch permit for the lakes and rivers.
Good grief.
I don’t know where op is from but a lot of states, especially in the western US require invasive species tags on any craft over a certain length, like 10 ft. Some also require state registration decals. Idaho is an example of one that takes the invasive species decals and water craft checkpoints very seriously.
Certain locales in CA are pretty big on it too. My local lake is huge on the decontamination thing and require certification on even small kayaks. They also like money too.
yep. got a warning once for not having purchased a permit on my paddle board.
What goes up most come down
depends on how far up you go
Depends on how
far upfast you go. Reaching space doesn’t mean you can stay there. You need orbital velocity.if i’m half a light year from earth i’m not going to be falling back down
That thing is not gonna fly forever!
Not with that mindset
That’s why I drink and fly. Who’s ever heard of a FUI?
It’s called a crash and burn
Shoot the gas tank, I’m sure it’ll come down sooner or later…
If a cop managed shoot the gas tank on a flying plane, I wouldn’t even be mad if I died in that crash
The fuel tanks are in the wings on most planes, they’re not that hard to hit.
I would love to see you hit a flying plane, anywhere on the body at all, with a 9mm
Did you know, other people have planes as well?
True story, I even found one out in the woods hunting blackberries.
And they make very difficult targets when they are flying over 80m/s and half a kilometer in the air
So wait until they either land or take off.
Come on dude, this is basic stuff.
The entire premise of this conversation was about a plane mid-air lmao
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.
Wait, wtf are antbed explosions?
no man you don’t get it, I could totally do it with a 22
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F22?
Just be in a flying plane at the exact same speed and acceleration so that in your reference frame it becomes easy
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.
Cops have a LOT of rifles, not just hand guns. 🤷♂️
That doesn’t change the fact that you’re not going to hit an object going 125mph at 9000’
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.
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
If I was standing right at the end of the runway I’d quite fancy my chances.
But what if the runway was a treadmill?
Wait, we can haz hamster treadmill powered planes?
Planes take off at a given air speed, not ground speed, so that wouldn’t affect anything.
Did you not catch the reference, or are you dedicated to not having fun with this? 😆
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not
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.
You spelled drone wrong…
All fun and games until tower gives you a number to call.
They’ll shootcha down.
There is a city in the sky apparently.
I think they have cameras and radar guns up there, they’ll just mail you the ticket
