Message posted by The Major on January 10, 2007 at 22:15:56 PST:
Hmmmm.... Muzzle velocity 3450 fps. The weight of the business end of a 20mm HEI cannon round is 1312.5 grains. If you knew the ballistic coefficient of the round, effective headwind or tailwind, and the altitude and angle of fire of the Raptor, you could plug these numbers into a ballistics program and plot an intercept point where a Raptor could, with serious application of military power and moving beneath the arc of the rounds' trajectory, shoot itself down. I'm guessing it would take a lot of distance, altitude, and every last bit of the Raptors' blazing speed to accomplish such a thing. In other words, it might be theoretically possible, but doesn't sound like an issue that Raptor Pilots are losing any sleep over.
In Reply to: Re: Back to the F-22's cannon question. posted by Dave Bethke on January 09, 2007 at 19:04:17 PST:
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