F-16 shoots up school in New Jersey

Gotta love those M-61’s.

good thing this doesn’t happen with A-10’s, I hear the training rounds are more dangrous than the actual high explosive rounds(nevermind the DU). The HE rounds bury themselves deep in befor ethey go off, throwing dirt, the Training rounds are stacked metal washers, which get thrown all over like shrapnel… do some damage.

Just for info. So it happens everywhere.

(I was clearing out an old briefcase when I found in it some old newspaper cuttings, some of which concerned military aviation.)

Coincidentally, an English (Hong Kong) article dated 4 July 2001, and titled “Stray shots add ammunition to residents’ complaints” by Peter Hadfield, probably from The South China Morning Post, reported:

In the week before 4 July 2001, a JASDF F-4 strafed a residential area in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidou, Japan.
13 rounds hit the roof and walls of the Kitahiroshima rehabilitation centre, and damaged the windows of several parked cars. One round hit a nearby golf course.
The F-4 was one of four practising in an exercise range near Chitose AB, Hokkaidou.
After launching four rockets, they climbed to 2,250 m, and armed their cannons – when one of their cannons fired a burst by mistake. It fired 188 rounds in two seconds.
A report released two days after the accident concluded the cause was an electrical fault.