E=MC2baldeagle wrote:What's the formula for figuring out how much you have to lead a jet at 10,000 feet traveling 200mph in order to hit it with a round from an AR-15 in just the right place to bring it down?
A long time ago I was a volunteer fireman with a man who had served as a machine gunner on a halftrack in France (obviously in WWII) He said that even with the special sight on his gun, and tracers, he was never able to lead a Stuka properly to just hit it much less bring it down. He said he did hit a lot of countryside, and houses, and barns, and even some people, in the effort, and shortly just decided it wasn't a paying proposition. He did get a medal for bringing down a plane though, it was coming straight at them strafing and he and a couple of other halftrack gunners stayed at their guns and shot it down. The Army couldn't decide who did it, so they just gave them all Bronze Stars, at least that's the way he told it.
He said he felt much safer when he got promoted to driver.