ICYMI: The Air Force's Chicken Gun

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When the United States Air Force tests a new aircraft it needs to make sure it won't crash should a stray bird slam into the plane's side. Thankfully, the military has an artillery piece with a 60-foot barrel that hurls chicken more than 400 miles an hour. The chicken gun allows the military to make sure no stray bird will foul up its expensive jets while they're mid-flight. If you think the chicken gun is weird, it’s only the tip of a strange and fascinating iceberg.

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0:13.0	Hello, angry-plated listeners, this is Matthew Galt.
0:16.0	It is Turkey Week here in America, which means we are going to run an old one,
0:21.0	very old one, one of the first episodes we ever did actually.
0:25.0	This was from five years ago. Jason's still working for Reuters. The show was still at Reuters.
0:31.0	And we had no idea how to master our episodes.
0:34.0	So this will actually be slightly improved.
0:38.0	You may probably be able to hear it better.
0:40.0	People yelled at us about not being able to hear the damn episodes for a long time before we
0:43.8	figured out how to fix it.
0:46.7	We're going to learn about chicken guns, why the military is putting chickens into
0:50.1	bazookas and firing them at Plains?
0:52.6	The answer is actually pretty fascinating.
0:55.5	We'll get into it right now.
0:57.1	The opinions expressed in this podcast
0:59.3	are those of the participants, not of Reuters News.
1:04.1	Are there currently any people making use of military maggots,
1:07.5	medicinal military maggots?
1:08.9	I just wanted to say that.
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