That ejection is going to put a lot of G-forces on his back. Whether he can continue flying in the future is a big question.
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Would have been better to stay in... I was kind of surprised that he ejected himself after all the rodeo settled, could it be an automatic system ? He didn't land far from the plane at all... with the top fan its a bit scary.
You never know when sht will hit the fan. Better late than never, the pilot did good with ejecting. Never depend on luck
Sure that it's safer to leave the jet area, but he was so close of it. The plane continued advancing after ejection... parachute could have been sucked in big time, nice that the nose stuck something. Perpective is messy tho.
Apparently the F-22 can do Mach 2.0 at 40,000 ft. with 118% power (out of 150%). Holding level flight at 40,000 ft. it can accelerate from .9 mach to 1.3 mach in ~40 seconds, but can then accelerate from 1.6 mach to 1.9 mach in ~20 seconds.
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I am answering this here as it’s more relevant than the QBZ191 thread.
First watch this video demonstration.
Mac is firing a 26 inch barreled 6.5mm PRC which is a close match to the 6.8x51mm round. It’s not likely that the 6.8x51mm round fired from M5, M250 or M249 will have lost much of that power at infantry combat ranges out too 300m.
Now his first shot doesn’t penetrate but it’s a lead cored copper jacketed round. Despite this It clearly does significant damage to the plate, with major back face deflation. A soldier wearing this plate is going to have at the very least the wind knocked out of him if not multiple rib fractures.
A military infantry round would likely be a steel penetrator cored copper jacketed round which would likely penetrate the armor.
If not in the first then as we see in the demonstration successive rounds. which is likely to be lethal as these plates are covering highly sensitive areas of the human anatomy. Heart, lungs, liver, spinal column. If you farther switched to a Tungsten carbide round then the plate might as well not be there.
Keep in mind that these plates are operating beyond their intended Spec, all this means that unlike today vs 5.56, 5.45x39mm, 5.8x42mm, 7.62x39, 7.62x51mm or even 7.62x54mm the chances of surviving an impact to the chest plate are no longer guaranteed. However as a rule the plate is only covering critical anatomy. It’s still possible to die by penetration into surrounding areas. Which basically means that suppression is still effective.
The V-280 Valor tiltrotor will become the main helicopter of the US Army. The V-280 won the tender, which also included the Defiant X helicopter, developed by Sikorsky and Boeing. The US will replace 2,000 Army UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters with one unified Bell V-280. The V-280 Valor tiltrotor was developed by Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin. The V-280 has an all-composite fuselage, superior flight performance and lower cost than the competition. The V-280 Valor does not have a removable rotary wing, which significantly reduces the weight of the machine, and there is no rotary engine - only the propeller rotor changes the position. By using dual motors with common drive shafts, both rotors can be powered by the same motor in the event of a mechanical failure. The tiltrotor crew consists of four people and can carry up to 14 paratroopers with heavy weapons. The tiltrotor has a cruising speed of 520 km/h, a service ceiling of 1800 meters and a combat range of up to 1480 kilometers.
The article reports that there were no weapons on board the aircraft. But this is information to be evaluated, because operational procedure is not to open the weapons bay doors until the aircraft has reached its final parking location. There is still a procedure of not launching real weapons during emergency needs, if there was some ammunition on board at the time of the flight and the aicraft failed in this flight, it is very difficult for the crew to obtain authorization to release the ammunition.