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Old 07-17-2014, 10:30 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling View Post
Hopefully it wasn't and they just "blew up".
Not really how those missiles work. sorry to be grim, they usually don't actually hit the aircraft and explode. They use a proximity fuse that explodes a set distance behind and aircraft and send out a wide expanding cloud of penetrative fragments, they're designed to create catastrophic damage in as wide an area as possible.

Those poor people.
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