I see pictures and hear stories of aircraft struggling back to base with hundreds of bullet holes or missing engines/parts of wings or shrapnel inside the wings. How did they stay in the air after all that anti air fire and why are modern aircraft weaker than them (Iran shot down one easily)?
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It’s not that the planes got worse, the guns got better.
You can put quite a few holes in something before it goes from operating optimally to not operating at all. The holes just make it operate a little bit worse. That is what machine guns do – they aim to put a bunch of small holes in the plane to cause enough damage to cause the plane to crash. Modern missiles only put one hole in the plane but it’s more likely than not going to be a big enough hole to make the plane inoperable.
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