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>aircraft traveling at Mach 0.8 (for an average 737) against a lighter than air balloon where the most rigid components are small circuit boards

>they wouldn't even notice

What?

Imagine an aircraft sitting stationary on the runway and you fire a circuit board at it at mach 0.8, which is 988km/h or 274m/s. It's the same thing.

From google, an arduino pro micro, which is a small circuit board, about the size of a usb flash drive, weighs 13g.

From wikipedia, a .22 bullet weighs 1.3 to 3.9 g, so about 1/10 of that small circuit board, and goes at a velocity of 175 to 533 m/s.

Do you really think that's safe?

Would you be happy to fly in a plane where they shot at it with ten rifles before you get in?





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