Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes?

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Passengers, please disregard the banging noises. That’s totally normal.”

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  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never understood why they can’t make a missile detect this and just aim for the center point where all the heat / chaff / IR is coming from.

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      • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The pilots would be evading hard so the center is moving around a lot too

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now that you put it that way, it’s mildly terrifying.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So we shoot blanks at them to get the loud noise without having to be accurate, got it

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And in fact, this is exactly what airports already do.

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