RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 19, 2020 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/f-16.html?fbclid=IwAR3ndKN6cae84b_gtr3TWgFgH74Lw24meh-_HoSSu1WyERr44dZsMv_jWIA 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Now the makers can claim that the cannon can destroy planes 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Don't park combat aircraft pointing at each other! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 Or let someone work on an aircraft loaded with live ammunition. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I have heard plenty of such stories from both several of my Pa's colleagues at deHavs who had returned from wartime active service, and FiL who served as a Fleet Air Arm Pilot. I think the best was of a Mosquito's worth of 60lb rockets accidentally discharged while at a dispersal point and considerably holing a distant (fortuitously unoccupied by people) hangar. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Nobody at General Dynamics, or latterly Lockheed Martin, thought perhaps the ability to discharge ordinance might want to be in circuit with...ooh I dunno, landing gear up? Fail safe obviously not in the vocabulary. (Please don't ever EVER go near railway control). That said, we now know that Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were absolutely right in using a two seat F16 as an escape vehicle, in full knowledge it'll launch weapons whilst on the ground. C6T. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 I'm sure I heard a very similar story a few years back. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 35 minutes ago, Reorte said: I'm sure I heard a very similar story a few years back. It was about two years ago. From Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Air_Component Quote On 11 October 2018 a Belgian Air Force F-16 caught fire during maintenance works at Florennes Air Base. The fire, reportedly caused by the accidental firing of a cannon, completely destroyed that aircraft. A second F-16 was also damaged The website is called War History Online. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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