Jwestie15 t1_j624g0n wrote on January 27, 2023 at 4:05 AM

Reply to comment by Bob_Juan_Santos in TIL that World War II Spitfires only had about 20 seconds of 'gun time' before running out of ammo, making most movie depictions wildly inaccurate by TimmyIsBaller

Well sorta, alot of the time you would have to visually verifying with mk1 eyeball that what your launching on is actually hostile and not a transceiver error or something. Lots of stuff to go wrong in BVR without an AWACs

Jwestie15 t1_j6248wj wrote on January 27, 2023 at 4:03 AM

Reply to comment by Business-Emu-6923 in TIL that World War II Spitfires only had about 20 seconds of 'gun time' before running out of ammo, making most movie depictions wildly inaccurate by TimmyIsBaller

Well I was on my ACT upgrade Standard 4vX The AWACS guy was out to lunch And I couldn’t get no decs

But I knew that they were hostile But I couldn't take the chance So I flipped the switch to outboard And said, "Boys, it's time to dance"

And they asked me, "Where ya goin'?" As I started to diverge Said "I had enough of this shit, man I'm goin' to the merge"