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solemnwarning:

--- Quote from: Calum ---how could they shoot in a plane?
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I think he means they would shoot the plane down :P

mobrien_12:
No.  You can shoot in a plane.  During all the skyjackings in the 1970's, a special slug was developed for the sky marshalls called the Glaser Safety Slug.  

Here is the Wikipedia article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaser_Safety_Slug

Basically, it will produce large shallow wounds, but it fragments easily and has very low penetration.  It goes through prison mattresses and thick clothing, but not things like drywall.  You could shoot it in an airplane without explosive decompression.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Neat ... would be useful on a plane. Of course, they also have all sorts of non-lethal weapons like tazers and bean bags or rubber bullets (they might go through the wall of an aircraft ?)

pofnlice:
Explosive decompression from a single bullet hole to a fueselage has been proven to be unfeasible. Several bullet holes also would not cause this as the preassure would have more escape routes, thus lessening the effect in a single area as well. You need cataclysmic structural failure to get explosive decompression....even then it's more like rapid decompression since the structurally sound bit fails and "falls out", it would resemble an explosion in appearance though.

It's still a neat thought though...

Master of Reality:

--- Quote from: Calum ---how could they shoot in a plane?
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over here in the modern world we have this neat thing called a firearm... it "shoots" projectiles out of it using "gunpowder".

Anyways, enough of patronizing calum :p
Would there really be "explosive" decompression with a 1cm hole in a commercial airliner... or is that just in movies?

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