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I think the most proper thing for the jet should be to destroy itself. In a war enviornment I would not like my enemy to gain intel about my military jets.
by darkhorn 11mo ago
I think the most proper thing for the jet should be to destroy itself. In a war enviornment I would not like my enemy to gain intel about my military jets.
- crazygringo 11mo agoI think its high-speed collision with the ground or ocean generally takes care of destroying it. Especially with no pilot attempting to keep it level and slow it down and minimize damage.
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoNot my wheelhouse, but doesn't that involve packing the aircraft with explosives, and wouldn't that involve risk of blowing up if someone else shoots you? Or is there some better way to self-destruct?
- SoftTalker 11mo agoImpacting the ground usually does it.
- DonHopkins 11mo agoJets are usually full of jet fuel that can blow up if someone else shoots you, or they run into the ground.
- klysm 11mo agoAssuming there is an autopilot present, nose diving at max afterburner straight down is probably going to yield a similar result
- estimator7292 11mo agoOne could calculate the amount of energy in a given amount of explosive and smashing into the ground at high velocity. I'm too lazy to do so, but I can tell you they're on the same scale. A heavy object moving fast has a shocking amount of energy. When such an object impacts the ground, all that energy has to go somewhere.
- cosmicgadget 11mo agoThere are probably a number of clever and failsafe ways to divert jet fuel somewhere that would destroy the plane on command.
- miki123211 11mo agoYou could self-destruct just the software / computers by encrypting everything with a few keys that are easy to destroy. This is a standard technique for quick and secure data wipes, particularly on e.g. modern SSD drives where a traditional wipe might be incomplete due to wear leveling algorithms.
- jojobas 11mo agoWould you go near a plane that's an electronic signal away from blowing itself up? Even if mechanical, warplanes get combat damage, and having a system like that could make a difference between survivable and sure death.
- dylan604 11mo agoMaybe bring some strong jamming equipment to prevent the electronic signal from being received?
- jojobas 11mo agoThe signal can originate on the plane itself due to a software glitch, stray currents in the grounding skin or whatever. If anything, jammers tend to interfere with the carrier's electronics itself.
- mikkupikku 11mo agoYou could erase computer memory, but blowing up the plane won't stop them from gaining intel about the materials, mechanism, and whatnot that make up the plane. An explosion won't vaporize the airplane, just break it into smallish pieces. Those can be collected and analyzed to reconstruct most any detail about the construction of the airplane. They even do this with missiles and bombs. Even shell fragments. When artillery shells packed full of high explosives go off, their intricate fuse mechanisms are left remarkably intact.