>There's a small door that opens so the gun can fire. Apparently for stealth reasons. The opening door creates an aerodynamic disturbance and the plane yaws or

>There's a small door that opens so the gun can fire. Apparently for stealth reasons. The opening door creates an aerodynamic disturbance and the plane yaws or does something else and the aim is off. So that has to be corrected in the flight software - the plane must countersteer with the tail surfaces when the door is opened. And for some reason it's been very slow to create these rules. This thing? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AJhTDzeMYkI/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AJhTDzeMYkI/maxresdefault.jpg That "door" really struck me as absolutely insane the first time I saw it. I simply cannot understand how a competent engineer could have designed this When you watch the associated video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8mqs93y1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8mqs93y1s), The thing literally flaps up and down freely when the cannon is firing in static position on the ground. Could they seriously not design it to retract? This is the first I had heard about the software compensation they added specifically to deal with the drag though. That just makes the entire thing hilarious.