Maybe even auto laser-turrets for more epic-ness?
Since we have such a shitshow of a US government, can someone tell the new FAA person to add turrets to planes? Ya know, 'Murica 2nd Amendment and all… 👀
Surely, nothing will ever go wrong with this? Right?
What’s the terminal velocity of a bullet? My guess is that it’s similar to the terminal velocity of a penny.
In other words, raining bullets are highly unlikely to directly kill anyone (although they could still sting if they hit you, or chip your windshield).
They could use ice bullets and solve that problem though….
Mythbusters found the ice bullet would evaporate before it could even leave the gun barrel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2003_season)#Episode_1_–_"Exploding_Toilet"
Yup… but they make noise and leave a lovely contrail.
Terminal velocity is really only relevant for objects that go below terminal velocity and then start falling. Bullets famously come out of guns very fast, so fast they go into people.
While air will slow the bullet down, tell that to the guy over over 2 miles away from Viacheslav Kovalskyi
Now, bird shot ain’t sniper rounds, but the point stands.
Bullets also famously come out of guns horizontally. As they travel, their horizontal speed decreases due to friction (slowly) and their horizontal speed accelerates until it hits terminal velocity.
Now one point here is that the only place where you’d be shooting at birds is during takeoff and landing; this is near the ground, and in both cases, the aircraft is nose up — which means the bullet wouldn’t be traveling at height until it lost momentum and fell, but would instead follow an arc that would still likely preserve a lot of forward momentum as the bullet approached the surface of the earth.
But it’s not falling bullets that are dangerous; it’s bullets moving forward with velocity that cause damage.