• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    You don’t actually need to be ahead of them on the horizontal plane. The plane just needs to be able to cover the distance the bullet travels as it slows from drag before the bullet falls to the intercept point.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      I was gonna say at least a portion of the plane had to be ahead of it unless it struck the very tip of the plane (which wouldn’t likely take it down).

      But it is traveling at supersonic speeds. So yeah - the bullet could just be falling in front of the plane at that point and the plane could run into the bullet - so it’d be traveling faster than the bullet at that point, but the bullet would be in front of it. Weird lol