Guden Oden said:
Uhhhmmm...Powderkeg said:This is my very own picture.
Guden Oden said:Uhhhmmm...
Did the car collide with the plane, or the other way around
Guden Oden said:Cut the roof off? I guess the cruiser was too tightly wedged in that simply deflating the tires wouldn't have done the trick? What about taking the wheels off completely?
Then again, that car was probably a total write-off anyway, might as well cut it up. What were the damages to the plane? I suppose some kind of insurance covered it, if that cop would have to pay for repair himself I guess it would only amount to like 3-12 of his lifetime salaries.
I'd rather put the car on a bunch of cinderblocks or such to support it, and then jack the wheel up enough to remove it, but whatever.Powderkeg said:You've got to be able to jack the car up off the ground to get the wheels off.
I bet the cop breathed a sigh of relief. "Armored" though, isn't that overstating it a bit? Seems to me that skin can't be particulary thick or it would quickly become very heavy... The warthog might qualify as being armored I guess, but a fighter jet?Actually other than some really minor denting and scratched paint the plane was unharmed. The plane is armored after all.
Guden Oden said:I bet the cop breathed a sigh of relief. "Armored" though, isn't that overstating it a bit? Seems to me that skin can't be particulary thick or it would quickly become very heavy... The warthog might qualify as being armored I guess, but a fighter jet?
Considering its length and wing span, I don't think that is exceedingly heavy, especially considering just the turbines and afterburners have to weigh at least a [metric] ton each. After all, those things have to withstand 9+ G turns while carrying quite a lot of deadly shit strapped on underneath them...Powderkeg said:An F-15 weighs about 27,000 lbs (12,250kg)
Then I would assume the armoring is actually around the COCKPIT, since a heatseenking missile would easily blast completely through the airframe of the craft, warhead of a typical air-to-air missile being what, a couple kilos of shaped-charge military-grade explosives? No armor (able to fly that is) would be able to stop something like that... Heck, DU autocannon rounds go through jet fighters like they were made of tissue paper.but they do have enough that if the plane were hit in the engine with a heat-seeking missile the cockpit and pilot would survive long enough for the pilot to eject.
Heh, well, I guess that depends on how fast you drive it. By the way, was that plane fuelled? One thing I definitely would NOT want to experience EVER is crashing into an airplane and then have thousands of liters of jet fuel start flooding down all over my crashed car, perhaps into the passenger compartment... Gah. Stuff of nightmares that is!but it will stop a police car.
Wow, some very cool stuff thereepicstruggle said:
Guden Oden said:Considering its length and wing span, I don't think that is exceedingly heavy, especially considering just the turbines and afterburners have to weigh at least a [metric] ton each. After all, those things have to withstand 9+ G turns while carrying quite a lot of deadly shit strapped on underneath them...
Then I would assume the armoring is actually around the COCKPIT, since a heatseenking missile would easily blast completely through the airframe of the craft, warhead of a typical air-to-air missile being what, a couple kilos of shaped-charge military-grade explosives? No armor (able to fly that is) would be able to stop something like that... Heck, DU autocannon rounds go through jet fighters like they were made of tissue paper.
Speaking of missiles, the phoenixes the F14 carries, isn't that like a 10 kilo warhead? That'd blow an airplane to smithereens. Not sure if a pilot would be able to eject after such a blast, if he survived at all, chances are he'd be knocked unconscious by the shockwave and plummet to the ground/sea with the rest of the wreckage. Is there some kind of automatic safety system for cases like that?
Heh, well, I guess that depends on how fast you drive it. By the way, was that plane fuelled? One thing I definitely would NOT want to experience EVER is crashing into an airplane and then have thousands of liters of jet fuel start flooding down all over my crashed car, perhaps into the passenger compartment... Gah. Stuff of nightmares that is!
How easily does kerosene spark into flame anyway? GAH!
It's designed specifically to shoot down Russian heavy bombers carrying nuclear weapons, which is why it has such a long range (Officially around 150 miles, closer to 300 is the true range). It's not something meant to be used against fighters, as it's big, heavy, and easy to dodged.
If the missile has a proximity fuse, the blast - especially if warhead is loaded with shrapnel - might damage the aircraft enough to cause a crash even if it dodges the actual impact...mjtdevries said:(And if you can "kill" multiple F16s it cannot be all that easy to dodge)