Interesting. WHen I was at Mosul, Balad, and Bagram, we had drone strikes since I was UAV detatchment commander. 2 Ravens and a Shadow.
Raven 1 hit a UH60 that dropped into UAV AOA unauthorized. Nice dent. Soiled pants of pilot and crew. Aircraft grounded until repaired.
Raven 2 hit a Airbus....nice dent. Airbus grounded 24 hours for inspection.
Shadow hit by IL 76. BIG DENT. Grounded airplane that got into our AO.
All drone strikes were pilots not following NOTAMS or leaving their airspace into ours.
Mini copters hitting a 747 ain’t going to bring it down. Much less probable than durka durka with a Mosin Nagant with 100 year old ammo (golden bb).
Nice Blogpimping though....our company blocks all spam and blogs though so I couldnt get on it.
“Mini copters hitting a 747 ain’t going to bring it down.”
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate real-world military related experience.
Your examples did not involve intentional ingestion of a drone by a high-bypass turbofan...a very delicate machine.
As posted up-thread, here, again is the link to the crash of a 747 freighter which was done in by a tiny kestrel bird:
“The aircraft experienced a stall in its inboard right-hand Pratt & Whitney JT9D engine after it ingested a kestrel during the take-off roll on 25 May last year.”
A single Canada Goose can take out a jet engine as seen with Captain Sully’s crash in the Hudson and with the AWACS Yukla-27 crash, and they weigh less and have softer parts than available cheap multi-copters.
Here is the accident report on the AWACS Yukla-27, which inspired my blog (please check the blog out when you get home!):
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0