senojekips
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Here is a sobering shot of an SUV that got lit up by mistake, by an F16 driver near the air-ground gunnery range outside Dugway, Utah.
The custom panel beating job, is the result of a one second burst by the fighter's 20mm gun, which fires about 3000 rounds per minute. An estimated 70 rounds left the gun; the results are as you see here.
What's even more astonishing is - the SUV was being driven at the time. The driver and the guy in the right-hand passenger seat escaped with some light glass injury to the driver, and a dislocated shoulder to the passenger. The shots hit the gas tank, but didn't explode; the gas just leaked out. The passenger who normally sits in the back seat had just moved to another vehicle.
The vehicle was on the military reservation, but a full three miles away from the gunnery range.
The pilot is probably doubtless be busily writing "I WILL NOT ENGAGE SOFT CIVILIAN VEHICLES IN NO-FIRE ZONES" 10,000 times, after which he will be PCS'd to Shemeya AFB, Alaska .
The good news is that he only had 508 plus or minus 2 rounds of ball training ammo and not HEI (high explosive incendiary)!
I would imagine this event will have an impact on his career
The custom panel beating job, is the result of a one second burst by the fighter's 20mm gun, which fires about 3000 rounds per minute. An estimated 70 rounds left the gun; the results are as you see here.
What's even more astonishing is - the SUV was being driven at the time. The driver and the guy in the right-hand passenger seat escaped with some light glass injury to the driver, and a dislocated shoulder to the passenger. The shots hit the gas tank, but didn't explode; the gas just leaked out. The passenger who normally sits in the back seat had just moved to another vehicle.
The vehicle was on the military reservation, but a full three miles away from the gunnery range.
The pilot is probably doubtless be busily writing "I WILL NOT ENGAGE SOFT CIVILIAN VEHICLES IN NO-FIRE ZONES" 10,000 times, after which he will be PCS'd to Shemeya AFB, Alaska .
The good news is that he only had 508 plus or minus 2 rounds of ball training ammo and not HEI (high explosive incendiary)!
I would imagine this event will have an impact on his career
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