Can dogfight pilots fly through debris?

Question

Often in Hollywood you will see aerial or space dogfights in which a pilot will line up on a target’s 6 o’clock, destroy the target, and then fly straight through the cloud of smoke and fire and carry on. Is this realistic?? Aren’t there massive chunks of metal in this cloud waiting to chew up the insides of the attacker’s engines? Does this happen IRL?

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Answer 1

It happened with V1 flying bombs aimed at London in WW2, but they had a ton of explosives on board and the debris or fire could damage the attacking aircraft.