• hactar42@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can’t outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don’t follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.

    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      lol yup one thing I can’t ignore are helicopter and plane sounds. There could be an actual friggin blackhawk landing (Jack Ryan is a perfect example) and they edit in incorrect sounds!

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        2 days ago

        They probably didn’t even record any sounds when they shot the scene.

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        2 days ago

        I especially hate it when you see a Warthog firing the old Avenger and they’ve made it sound like a slightly more rapid version of the original Gatling Gun. So underwhelming.

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        3 days ago

        I hate it when they have a modern fighter jet firing it’s guns and it sounds like “thunka thunka thunka thunka”.

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            2 days ago

            They do still mount guns on most. Notable examples of gunless fighters I can think of are the F-117 Nighthawk and the F-4 Phantom. F-117s weren’t really fighters, and got the F designation to lure in crazy fighter jocks. F-4s were later fitted with a gun pod, and then (IIRC) retrofitted with a gun.