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Title    F-16 Flies into Its Own Bullets
Date    Wednesday May 15 2019, @01:20PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the Ready!-Shoot!-Aim! dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/05/15/0243226

Booga1 writes:

What's faster than a speeding bullet? The Dutch F-16 that shot itself.

The Netherlands' Defense Safety Inspection Agency (Inspectie Veiligheid Defensie) is investigating an incident during a January military exercise in which a Dutch Air Force F-16 was damaged by live fire from a 20-millimeter cannon—its own 20-millimeter cannon. At least one round fired from the aircraft's M61A1 Vulcan Gatling gun struck the aircraft as it fired at targets on the Dutch military's Vliehors range on the island of Vlieland, according to a report from the Netherlands' NOS news service.

Two F-16s were conducting firing exercises on January 21. It appears that the damaged aircraft actually caught up with the 20mm rounds it fired as it pulled out of its firing run. At least one of them struck the side of the F-16's fuselage, and parts of a round were ingested by the aircraft's engine. The F-16's pilot managed to land the aircraft safely at Leeuwarden Air Base.


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  1. "Booga1" - https://soylentnews.org/~Booga1/
  2. "The Dutch F-16 that shot itself." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/dutch-f-16-takes-cannon-fire-from-itself/
  3. "according to a report from the Netherlands' NOS news service." - https://nos.nl/artikel/2278988-f-16-boven-vlieland-geraakt-door-eigen-kogel.html
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=33771

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