Netherlands F-16 fighter jet literally ran into its own rounds during exercise

[Kailash Kumar]

Netherlands F-16 fighter jet literally ran into its own rounds during exercise

Apr 6, 2019

The Dutch state broadcaster NOS has reported a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft literally ran into its own rounds in January during an exercise over Vlieland.

According to the Dutch Broadcast Foundation, the incident occurred during the January exercise at the Leeuwarden air base, but information about it appeared only now. January 21, two F-16 fighter jets took off and opened fire on targets at the test site.

The pilot of one of the F-16 fighter jet aircraft had flown into his own stream of cannon rounds and later suffered considerable damage.

At least one fired round caused damage to the exterior of the aircraft. Parts of the munition also ended up in the engine.

Nobody was hurt during the incident. The pilot followed emergency procedures and was able to land the fighter jet safely at Leeuwarden Air Base.

The Netherlands Defense Safety Inspection is looking into how one of the aircraft was able to shoot itself. The inspection would also like to find out if aircraft crew or ground personnel was endangered during the exercise.

The investigation is now in full swing. Tests are being run and the inspection is in conversation with those involved. “This is a serious incident. We therefore want to fully investigate what happened and how we would be able to avoid this in future”, inspector-general Bagerbos said.

Damage to the exterior of the F-16.

https://defence-blog.com/news/nethe...-ran-into-its-own-rounds-during-exercise.html

 

[Safriz]

Amateures

 

[Bengal71]

How is it possible an aircraft running into it's own fired bullets?

 

[siegecrossbow]

How is it possible an aircraft running into it's own fired bullets?

Air resistance + accelerating fighter aircraft. Same thing happened to an F-11 tiger.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/

 

[Indus Pakistan]

How is it possible an aircraft running into it's own fired bullets?

The only thing I can think of is he fired the rounds at slow speed, say 250 mph then went on afterburners clocking 1,000 mph thus catching and colliding into his own rounds. Can't think of any other explaination.

 

[SQ8]

Had happened before as well. A Grumman F-9F panther shot itself down when it outran its bullets in a dive and pulled into them

 

[Bengal71]

The only thing I can think of is he fired the rounds at slow speed, say 250 mph then went on afterburners clocking 1,000 mph thus catching and colliding into his own rounds. Can't think of any other explaination.

Yes that's what I thought too. But that would mean the jet hit the bullets from the back of the bullets, not the bullets hit the jet.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Had happened before as well. A Grumman F-9F panther shot itself down when it outran its bullets in a dive and pulled into them

Takes the meaning of 'own goal' to altogether another level.

 

[JonAsad]

Ofcourse the bullets were loosing it momentum and the fighter gaining it..

 

[Yaseen1]

There are also instances when bomb launched from jets go in wrrong direction and hits your own fighter jets so anything can happen and nothing is perfect except ALLAH ALMIGHTY

 

[Beast]

Bullets are outdated and slow for modern aerial combat

 

[GriffinsRule]

This briefly shows the importance of design and testing for every little change to an aircraft or a new weapon system/fuel tank that is added to a plane and why there are parameters within which you can safely release or drop ordnance.

 

[war&peace]

What people don't realise is that the max speed of a fighter jet (2,120 km/h for F16 block-50) is much higher than the speed of bullets (800-900 km/h).. Bullets fired from onboard machine gun or cannon travel at subsonic speeds and once fired, they are only decelerating due to air resistance while the A/C can reach twice the speed of sound with afb. Thus, firing the bullets at while flying at subsonic plus the speed of the bullets will add up relative to the ground but if the pilots accelerates with afb on, it will very quickly be travelling at a higher speed than the bullets and will catch up with them and under the right conditions can hit them.

There are also instances when bomb launched from jets go in wrrong direction and hits your own fighter jets so anything can happen and nothing is perfect except ALLAH ALMIGHTY

This is different from the firing of the bullets. This is called store release and it is different physically than the bullets that fired from the gun at the front.

 

[Yaseen1]

Firing bullets at high speed is risky particularly when jet is doing manuevers due to multiple factors such as airpressure, G forces on bullets and high speed of jet particularly if jet takes wrong turn after firing bullets

What people don't realise is that the max speed of a fighter jet (2,120 km/h for F16 block-50) is much higher than the speed of bullets (800-900 km/h).. Bullets fired from onboard machine gun or cannon travel at subsonic speeds and once fired, they are only decelerating due to air resistance while the A/C can reach twice the speed of sound with afb. Thus, firing the bullets at while flying at subsonic plus the speed of the bullets will add up relative to the ground but if the pilots accelerates with afb on, it will very quickly be travelling at a higher speed than the bullets and will catch up with them and under the right conditions can hit them.


This is different from the firing of the bullets. This is called store release and it is different physically than the bullets that fired from the gun at the front.

What people don't realise is that the max speed of a fighter jet (2,120 km/h for F16 block-50) is much higher than the speed of bullets (800-900 km/h).. Bullets fired from onboard machine gun or cannon travel at subsonic speeds and once fired, they are only decelerating due to air resistance while the A/C can reach twice the speed of sound with afb. Thus, firing the bullets at while flying at subsonic plus the speed of the bullets will add up relative to the ground but if the pilots accelerates with afb on, it will very quickly be travelling at a higher speed than the bullets and will catch up with them and under the right conditions can hit them.


This is different from the firing of the bullets. This is called store release and it is different physically than the bullets that fired from the gun at the front.

 

[war&peace]

Firing bullets at high speed is risky particularly when jet is doing manuevers due to multiple factors such as airpressure, G forces on bullets and high speed of jet particularly if jet takes wrong turn after firing bullets

I already explained it my posts. Please read them.