This is what people don't want you to know about ultra-fast aircraft
When we are thinking about the aircraft like MiG-25 (1) and MiG-31(2), which are the extreme fast interceptors, we might think that those aircraft are somehow harmless. The thing is that the ultimate fast speed would allow them to fly to the outer atmosphere, and they are capable to destroy the low-orbiting satellites. But there are also rumors, that in some of those aircraft robot versions would be installed the nuclear bombs, and they would be used as the cruise missiles, what can return to the base if they are no need to use.
And sometimes we might wonder, why they are mentioned in the list of the gunships?
Many people believe that effective attack aircraft would need a sophisticated weapon system for being dangerous, but this is not true if we would want to sweep away the entire enemy army. So have you ever heard the term "sonic boom"? The term means the conical pressure wall, which is forming if the aircraft is moving faster than sound. This means that when the aircraft would cross the sound barrier the air would not have time to go away from the front of the plane. That causes effect, where the air molecules are pushed away from the surface of the aircraft with the speed, which increases Mach 1.
The thing is that the pressure wall would travel faster than the speed of sound, and that turns the air to the wall, which is called "shock wave". This term is taken from the explosives. The pressure impact of explosives causes the pressure wall, which travels in the air by the burning speed of the explosive. A nuclear weapon creates a pressure effect by increasing the temperature very fast at the point, where the explosion happens, and the expanding gas is the thing, that is called a shock wave.
The thing is that if the aircraft, what travels by speed Mach 3, would fly very low, the pressure wall would be hard as steel, and that thing would cause terrible damages in the area, where that thing affects. But what if we would install loudspeakers to the nose of MIG-31 or MiG-25, which are the Mach 3 interceptors? That thing would cause the movement of the air molecules would get the speed of aircraft behind them, and this means that the pressure wall would travel 4000 kilometers per hour to the target. This is the reason, why the aircraft cannon is effective.
If the speed of the ammunition of the cannon in a stable position is 1000 kilometers per hour, would the aircraft cannon, what uses the same ammunition would be installed in the aircraft, what is flying 1500 km/h, the speed of ammunition will be 2500 km/h. This makes the aircraft cannons more effective than the similar cannons, which is installed on a stable platform. And if the aircraft is flying speed of Mach 3 it can make the ballistic jump, which makes it capable to destroy low orbiting satellites.
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