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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Absolutely not.
A jet engine gets easily totaled by sucking a metal debris. Let alone flying into metal debris at Mach1. It would mean doubling the speed of impact between the debris and the engine blades.
Also, movies do compress distances a lot to create pathos. If you shoot a plane with your gun, you are still far enough you need a hard maneuvering to catch the exploded aircraft. You need to fly one or more minutes and pull a lot of G forces to manage to pass through the falling debris.
If you hit the plane with a missile, you are way too far to even try. If you hit the plane with a modern long range missile, you don’t even see the plane or the explosion.
In movies you see people shooting at eachother in the same frame. IRL footage you see only one guy/vehicle on one side shooting at the horizon. That’s how real distances are.
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