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To: Revolutionary
. It may be a 1 in a 1000 chance

Hitting the moving target at hundreds of miles per hour of the jet engine intake a couple feet across in the 3 dimensions space needs a lot more zero's behind than 1000.

19 posted on 05/02/2013 10:14:57 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Kind of like shooting a musket ball out of the air with a slingshot.


20 posted on 05/02/2013 10:18:27 AM PDT by tatown
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Actually it is almost exactly 1 in 1000.
The aircraft will be within plus or minus 100 ft both vertically and laterally. That is 40,000 square feet. The engine has an area of about 20 square feet. Two engines equal 40 square feet. If the UAV doesn’t move, the random odds of hitting an engine is 1/1000. I just did the math for fun.


67 posted on 05/05/2013 5:12:48 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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