p51
Sr Member
From personal experience, when you discuss stuff like that, you usually go into a room, any paperwork stays there on the stuff, and then you leave. And yes, you do not discuss details openly unless you're in a room with others read into it, for specifically that purpose.Soldiers/sailors/airmen discussing classified information out in public! I finally watched that "Stealth" movie and the three pilots are sitting with a Thai citizen, who they assume can't speak English, in an outside restaurant and openly discussing the classified aircraft they are flying!
Now, sometimes you do discuss it, but it's more like, "Sir, that thing we talked about this morning? It's [insert distance here]..." and nobody would know that you'd previously discussed wanting to know what danger close was for the weapon you discussed or the maximum effective range of another.
Having flown on fighters (one WW2 and one jet), I always laugh at that, myself.That reminds me of yet another fighter related peeve. Like in the "Stealth" movie, pilots grabbing hold of the flightstick with both hands and flying the jet like they are holding a handgun. So... how are you working the throttle? How hard is it to find some former pilot to consult on your movie? They are all over Youtube!
That, and in any movie where the stick shakes when the pilot fires a machine gun of any kind. In any fighter since the 30s, the guns aren't physically attached the stick in any way and only activate servos adjacent to the weapon itself. You'd barely even hear it, let along feel it.