Avoiding drones

It can happen if the practice round (which is hollow) has a manufacturing defect and cracks open once it leaves the cannon muzzle.

Ibra wrote:

They made that joke with A10 thunderbolt but stopped with going slow to stall rather than backward

It’s also bad if you go faster !

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/dutch-f-16-takes-cannon-fire-from-itself/

https://datagenetics.com/blog/august22017/index.html

Thank you Ibra for these two brilliant links, very interesting read!

@Medewok you’ll want to read Corky Meyer’s Flight Journal (available on Amazon) with more test pilot stories on the F11 (and the Grummann stable in general).