Bombs hitting the planes that dropped them - video

[Jon]

Aircraft store separation incidents. 2:51 video:

Previously:

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[neilbourjaily@gmail.com]

What kind of vortex can mover such mass like that?

[VinnieL]

Wow that's scary!

[bruce.desertrat]

What's not immediately apparent is that at least some of these aircraft seem to be diving at pretty high rates of speed. When you're already flying at or close to terminal velocity of the object you're dropping, it's going to behave like it's in zero gee. On one of the shots you can see a lot of vapor coming off the top leading edge of the wing as the pilot pulls out of the dive to get away from the wayward ordinance.

Other cases, I'll bet, are faulty releases, doesn't take much lag between the front and rear release to get one of these things tumbling in that airflow, and at least one of them looks like the wing pylon came off with the bomb.

All in all, serious pucker factor for the pilots!

[Duke_of_URL]

The Pentagon requires missile manufacturers fly and release their products at >Mach 1.0 before the military attempts any launches. Now we know why. Also, some of these may have been performed above the airspeed for intentional release for test purposes.