Submitted 4 hours ago by IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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?
The intake of a jet engine can kill birds a dozen at a time. The exhaust can drive them extinct. A turret would be just showing off.
I bet it’s much cheaper to just let people die in the occasional plane crash, than to add weight to the plane.
That would be cool. Boringly though, there are safer ways as well. Birds tend to be scared of loud bangs, so you could scare them away with just sounds.
So we shoot blanks at them to get the loud noise without having to be accurate, got it
And in fact, this is exactly what airports already do.
“Passengers, please disregard the banging noises. That’s totally normal.”
The bullets that don’t hit the birds would rain down on populated areas.
Bird strikes happen at lower altitudes and airliners flu much higher than birds unless they’re taking off or landing, and they almost always takeoff or land near a play populated area.
More people would die on average from stay bullets then from airplane crates caused my bird strikes
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….
But, what’s your take on the lasers though? 🤔
You’d need chemical lasers to quickly vaporize birds, but it could be done.
Easy, use dry ice bullets!
The bullets that don’t hit the birds would rain down on populated areas.
So… just your average Fourth of July celebrations?
🇺🇸🦅🎆💥🪦
Their actually isn’t a statistics large amount of aviation incident recently. Its like a couple years back when everyone was freaked out about shark attacks despite them being no more command than usual.
Yeah, that one at Reagan was just especially tragic and in a wild week.
Any repercussions of the gutting of the FAA and similar crap from the administration will likely take more time to become apparent, as the general air traffic control system becomes less regulated
Good news: Not only do we have BirdStrikes, but also CrowdStrikes
Not soon enough.
If anything like this was ever done it’s more likely it would be independent drones flying ahead of the plane at its 10 and 2 o’clock
But then you don’t get 'Murican style 2nd Amendment epic movie-style action 🇺🇸🦅🎆
You do if those drones lay down firepower to clear the airspace for the aircraft.
And as a side benefit, the drones stay in the ATC zones where aircraft go through bird airspace, so you don’t have weapons on foreign planes AND you can shoot down anything else that makes it into the aircraft’s collision zone, like other drones, balloons or military helicopters.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Why not just have a guy with a shotgun riding in a lawn chair bolted to the wing?