Thank you!
I was going to say something. That was like when people say, after the police kill a bad guy, “Why didn’t they shoot the gun out of his hand like on TV?”
Precision rapid-fire cannon shooting of only a couple of rounds at a person in an oversized aluminum tube while flying at 500 mph... Just nope.
Yeah, even the power of an air-to air proximity explosion pales in comparison to the disruption and unbalancing of the aerodynamic forces that are created instantaneously. Even if you could, which you can’t, there are no outcomes other than dramatic and catastrophic destruction of the aircraft.
The pictures show engineers trying to do temporary repairs on bullet holes in fuselages, before the aircraft are flown on to Europe for full-scale repairs.
https://theloadstar.co.uk/exclusive-images-of-the-damage-caused-by-the-battle-for-tripoli-airport/
Damage awaiting temporary repairs
Every green square indicates a bullet hole covered with a temporary repair
An engineer makes a temporary fix over a hole made by flying shrapnel
Fixing bullet holes on an Afriqiyah Airbus A319