Shooting at a fighter aircraft while in a parachute seems like a very bad idea to me, you’re in trouble if the pilot shoots back.
Odds are if a fighter is close enough for a pistol then the fighters were committing war crimes by shooting parachuting aviators. The Japanese were known for shooting down parachutes.
It wasn’t a war crime back then, of course.
What I’ve learned about “war crimes” is that it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you don’t lose. And if you win you get to punish the loser for their war crimes and pretend like you didn’t commit any.
Japan lost and they still deny the horrible, Holocaust-tier atrocities they committed during WW2
They didn’t lose hard enough
IDK, they unconditionally surrendered. That pretty much never happens.
And yet we didn’t execute any of the people responsible.
“History get written by the victors”
A statement routinely banned in serious historical communities because of the mountains of evidence against it
So this is who the Battlefield games are based on
For ever crazy stunt pulled off in one of those games, even crazier shit has happened in real life. Humans under extreme stress in life threatening situations tend to get really creative.
So you’re saying someone has jumped out of a moving f16 and shot down another f16 with an rpg and then landed back into their f16 and flew off? Nice
I saw this a few times in Nam
Yeah I did it the other day on my lunch break.
Well, the F16 is called Prius and shooting down the F16 with an RPG is called grabbing McD from the drive through window. But you know, I was really far from the window and had to open the door to step out with one foot.
