>737 Max Takeoff Weight (MTOW) is around 70.000 kg>Fill it completely up with jet fuel and explosives>Paint it in Aeroflot livery>Put it on auto take-off and autopilot, destination Kerch Bridge>Make it fly around Crimea, so it comes up from the South>Swarm the area with Palianytsia drones just before to mess up air defence>Gigantic BTFO explosionTell me why weaponizing commercial planes is a bad idea. Ukraine has plenty of them just lying around airfields.
>>62788232>tell me why weaponizing commercial planes is a bad idea.because the enemy will start shooting down commercial planes you dipshit. It's the same reason why the 747 cruise missile truck never happened.
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>>62788232>Swarm the area with Palianytsia drones just before to mess up air defenceAs if russian AD has ever needed anyone to confuse them for them to shoot down a civi airliner
>>62788239Ukraine doesn't have any commercial flights. Russia will start shooting down their own. I fail to see why this is a problem.
>>62788245What's weird is that despite we are almost 3 years in, Russian AD has yet to shoot down a commercial airliner (except Prigo's ofc lmao)
>>62788239In fairness, Russians often do that anyway.
>>62788239This.But also, air.infers are A) really goddamn expensive, and B) only have a handful of producers. So if you start weaponizing them without permission, they’ll stop selling to you.Also, autopilot doesn’t work that way
>>62788497Its not weird, the whole airspace over Ukraine has been rerouted because god knows what bloo-alcohol level the S400-crews has
I’m pretty sure you can’t do any significant modification to a passenger jet and expect it to fly safely. They’re very specialized aircraft.
>>62788232>he thinks planes are allowed to fly willy nilly>never heard about the Flight Plan requirementBased retard, here have a well deserved hide thread from me
>>62788239Not OP, but say you took perfidity out of the equation, and are a cash-strapped state (or non state actor) in need of something *resembling* PGMs. Would it be viable, considering the effectiveness of drones that are about aa fast and maneuverable as a piper cub.
>>62788232>>62789207There was this small Saudi insurgency group that used this tactic in the early 2000s
>>62788232the "auto land" requires nav aids that the kerch bridge doesen't have, you could try programming fixes but the accuracy of that depends on the GPS and IRS units.aside from that painting the plane with a livrery doesen't do shit what matters to controllers is what the transponder is saying. A non autorized plane is going to be intercepted, once intercepted they will quickly notice that there is no one on board and shoot it down. positive of this option is that you can probably fit so much explosive to destroy the interceptors once they get close to check, negative this is perfidy.the only use a civilian airliner can have in a war is transport troops
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>>62789207Ignoring the geopol issues loading a 737-400 with 25 tons of HE is going to be devastating to hardened targets. You would easily break the containment dome on a nuclear reactor, shatter a dam or move so much soil any nearby structures would collapse.If only really works for terrorism because in a hot war no one is going to look at an airliner dropping from 35,000ft to dive on their infrastructure and let it hit.Even faced with the possibility it is civilian it would be politically easier to justify killing 300 civilians than letting a reactor get cracked open.
>>62788239literally a 737dumbduck
>>62789601Gotcha, though unlike OP I was thinking more of just employing it as a kind of field-expedient V1 type flying bomb but thank you for the thoughtful reply
>>62789601Would using an ancient military IL-76 cargo plane in the same way be okay? Ukraine has used old recon jets for cruise missiles.
roll off cruise missile spamroll out ballistic missilesit's an easy thing
>>62790640No, Russia shoots down airliners that are meant to be there so they are going to shoot down airliners that aren't.
