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While I'm unaware of an ejection seat which blows the tail off the aircraft backward with another shaped charge, there's nothing preventing this.
by samatman 5y ago
While I'm unaware of an ejection seat which blows the tail off the aircraft backward with another shaped charge, there's nothing preventing this.
- alanbernstein 5y agoOf course there is: whatever event warranted the ejection. The seat/canopy mechanism is relatively localized within the aircraft, adding one more system to fail is perhaps frowned upon in this absolute last-chance survival system.