Netherlands F-16 fighter jet literally ran into its own rounds during exercise

[Yaseen1]

easy way to avoid this is to change direction of jet immediately after firing bullets

Air resistance + accelerating fighter aircraft. Same thing happened to an F-11 tiger.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/

 

[Sabretooth]

The only thing I can think of is he fired the rounds at slow speed, say 250 mph then went on afterburners clocking 1,000 mph thus catching and colliding into his own rounds. Can't think of any other explaination.

Or the pilot could have fired a burst of cannon during a tight G-Turn and the swinging rounds came back at him at the end of the turn.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

swinging rounds

Would the rounds not move straight, or away from the turning circle because of centrefugal force thus it would be impossible to hit them?

 

[rambro]

No more super power lol

Anyway this is why we need plasma/laser gun

 

[Sabretooth]

Would the rounds not move straight, or away from the turning circle because of centrefugal force thus it would be impossible to hit them?


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Yup, you are right. This isn't possible both theoretically and practically.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

What people don't realise is that the max speed of a fighter jet (2,120 km/h for F16 block-50) is much higher than the speed of bullets (800-900 km/h).. Bullets fired from onboard machine gun or cannon travel at subsonic speeds and once fired

According to Wikipedia, M61 Vulcan which the F-16 use fires 20mm bullets at the velocity of 1050 m/s which is equal to 3780 km/h and that is 3.062 Mach and they are supersonics

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

How is it possible an aircraft running into it's own fired bullets?

Look whats happening in their neighbour, Belgium!

 

[war&peace]

According to Wikipedia, M61 Vulcan which the F-16 use fires 20mm bullets at the velocity of 1050 m/s which is equal to 3780 km/h and that is 3.062 Mach and they are supersonics

Well, I don't know how credible or accurate this figure is but still this is muzzle velocity i.e. that the moment at leaves the barrel and if it is flying at 1050 m/s, it experience huge amount of drag (shock wave drag) so will slow down very fast..because it is a bullet and has no thruster attached to it.