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It doesn't look like a drone. Although possible, war planes should not be as affected by strikes. Why do you think it's a drone?
by aaron695 4y ago
It doesn't look like a drone.
Although possible, war planes should not be as affected by strikes.
Why do you think it's a drone?
- leetrout 4y agoVouched for your comment. It looks like you are shadowbanned. You might want to send an email to HN.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoHow can you tell that someone is shadowbanned?
- leetrout 4y agoAll their comments are dead
- fsckboy 4y agoif part of the way the shadowban works is that the banee isn't alerted, why are you alerting them which works against "the system"?
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- adwn 4y agoBecause "the system" might have made a mistake. And even if the shadowban was warranted at some time, the poster might have improved their conduct in the meantime and should be given another chance. Usually, when I see a reasonable but dead comment, I vouch for it. If the commenter is shadowbanned and their other most recent comments are also reasonable and civil, I (sometimes) alert them to their status.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoI don't get it. How do you know that GP is shadowbanned? The post looks just like a normal post to me; I'm not even sure what it means for it to be dead.
- maxbond 4y agoLooking through their comments, it's pretty clear they know they're banned, why they're banned, spoke with dang about it at the time, and embraced being banned (I think because they feel it filters out low effort replies? Their statement was on the matter was terse, but semiparphrasing they said "I'm aiming for a shadowban" because "replies are the worst").
- leetrout 4y agoOh OK, I didnt look in detail.
- Alupis 4y ago> war planes should not be as affected by strikes. There is nothing special about a war plane that makes it less affected by strikes of any kind, be from birds or drones alike.
- someweirdperson 4y agoA bullet-proof windshield protects the most vulnerable part (the pilot) a lot better than any civilian plane can.
- Alupis 4y agoMost (practically all) aircraft do not have bullet-proof windshields (including military), for starters, and secondly a several pound meat ball travelling at closing speeds anywhere between 60kts (GA) to 200+ kts (jets/airliners/mil) is going to do a number on the aircraft regardless if it incapacitated the pilot. Doubly-so if it's a several pound metal ball... You don't want to hit anything in an aircraft, ever.
- someweirdperson 4y ago> Most (practically all) aircraft do not have bullet-proof windshields (including military) The P-63 did (example picture [0]), like many others that were designed to attack bombers and/or ground targets. [0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3031666813 https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3031666813
- Alupis 4y agoThe person in the picture is speculating it's a bullet proof windshield, and he's mistaken (particularly from the P-39 aircraft mentioned in the link). If you look at both a P-63 and P-39 you will not find any windshield or window that is even remotely shaped like what is held in the image. Regardless, modernly speaking, very few (if any) aircraft have bullet proof windshields. They are impractical for a number of reasons, including weight, size, thickness (distortion of picture), and efficacy. If a pilot is within small-arms distance they generally are already in trouble...
- maxbond 4y agoIt looks like a small black spec a few hundred feet off the ground to me. Drone seems pretty likely. Perhaps it's junk that fell off another aircraft, it could be a satellite falling to Earth for all I know, but drone seems like the first hypothesis to rule out. Or that the footage is inauthentic I suppose.
- maxbond 4y ago(My current understanding is now that the footage being inauthentic or misunderstood is the most likely.)