The USSY has been thinking about the possibilitys of a dug out hole in the ground that is very big.
Inside the hole heated air will be place inside, once fired the hot air will hit an aircraft destableiseing it. Also the hot air will choke the engine.
Roycelandia
15-01-2004, 12:12
And interesting and novel approach to AA defences, but ultimately redundant for three important reasons.
1. Basic Geothermal Physics. By the time the heat got anywhere near the aircraft, it wouldn't be sufficient to affect the plane's flight in any way, or if it was, it wouldn't destablise in enough to cause a crash. (Perhaps someone who knows more about this than I could enlighten or correct me on this one...)
2. How would you aim it? Ack Ack Guns during WWI and WWII worked by throwing huge numbers of Flak shells into the air and hoping the plane flew into one of them. Your weapon would need precision targetiing that would be simply unfeasible for this sort of weapon.
3. Modern Aircraft Engines won't be affected too much by a rapid change in air temperature and the resulting uplift/vacuum/etc effect.
It might bring down a Morane-Saulnier or a D.H.2, but it won't do anything vs. a Spitfire, Mustang, MiG-21, or F-22. Ditto choppers- you might take out a Mil-8 or a Bell Sioux, but no such luck vs. a KA-52 or an AH-64D.
Back to the drawing board, perhaps? :wink:
:cry:
Yes back to the drawing board.