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* For ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Michael Bay, famous for his love of U.S. military hardware and blowin' stuff up, strangely chose the less-awesome Hollywood version of an A-10 strafing run, with their Avenger guns making the "lines of little thwippy poofs" effect and sounding like machine guns. Compare the link under "Real Life", where an Avenger burst makes it look like you and everything within a few dozen yards got blasted by God's shotgun, [[RealityIsUnrealistic followed by the sound of Him farting in your general direction.]][[note]] The Avenger's 30mm rounds travel faster than the speed of sound. Combine this with the plane being some distance from the observer and/or target when he fires, and it takes a few seconds for the sound of the gun to catch up with the projectiles.[[/note]]
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* For ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/Transformers2007'', Michael Bay, famous for his love of U.S. military hardware and blowin' stuff up, strangely chose the less-awesome Hollywood version of an A-10 strafing run, with their Avenger guns making the "lines of little thwippy poofs" effect and sounding like machine guns. Compare the link under "Real Life", where an Avenger burst makes it look like you and everything within a few dozen yards got blasted by God's shotgun, [[RealityIsUnrealistic followed by the sound of Him farting in your general direction.]][[note]] The direction]]. [[note]]The Avenger's 30mm rounds travel faster than the speed of sound. Combine this with the plane being some distance from the observer and/or target when he fires, and it takes a few seconds for the sound of the gun to catch up with the projectiles.[[/note]]
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Showing the path of devastation wrought by the likes of the P-47D's [[MoreDakka eight .50 cal machine guns]] would be much more difficult, expensive, dangerous and confusing, and the likely results [[LudicrousGibs would not be suitable for most audiences]]. The guns were individually aimed at a single point of intersection a certain distance in front of the plane (think about it - if the guns weren't turned slightly inward so that the shots converged, planes would have trouble with air combat as they'd end up missing targets to both the left and right at the same time). They were also [[{{BFG}} far too powerful]] to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill waste on a single individual]]. These planes were said to be capable of sawing fully grown trees in half on a strafing run. Pilots described train cars being pushed over and horses being thrown 30 feet by the sheer kinetic impact. Not that a pilot would be likely to see a single person on the ground in any case. Without spotters on the ground in radio contact, pilots would strafe vehicles, roads, trains, or large obvious targets.
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A second reason to show strafing unrealistically is the ugliness of real-life strafing attacks. By the Second World War, fighter aircraft were carrying as many as eight .30- or .50-caliber machine guns, or a mix of machine guns and 20mm cannon. Showing the path of devastation wrought by the likes of the P-47D's [[MoreDakka eight .50 cal machine guns]] such a storm of bullets]] would be much more difficult, expensive, dangerous and confusing, extremely dangerous, and the likely results [[LudicrousGibs would not be suitable for most audiences]]. The guns were individually aimed at a single point of intersection a certain distance in front of the plane (think about it - if the guns weren't turned slightly inward so that the shots converged, planes would have trouble with air combat as they'd end up missing targets to both the left and right at the same time). They were also [[{{BFG}} far too powerful]] to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill waste on a single individual]]. These planes were said to be capable of sawing fully grown trees in half on a strafing run. Pilots described train cars being pushed over and horses being thrown 30 feet by the sheer kinetic impact. Not that a pilot would be likely to see a single person on the ground in any case. Without spotters on the ground in radio contact, If they didn't have specific targets, pilots would strafe vehicles, roads, trains, or large obvious targets.
gun batteries, and other targets of opportunity.
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no strafing in that scene??
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* Happens with ornithopters in the intro to ''Series/ChildrenOfDune]]''.
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* A vehicular version in ''Film/{{Condorman}}''. Condorman is driving a Bond-type WeaponizedCar when five black sports cars of the elite KGB Pursuit Squad start chasing him. He pushes a button and a laser gun fires from the rear of the vehicle, but the cars smoothly dodge to either side of the road. He then deploys more lasers that do the standard either-side-of-the-road strafing trope, but the drivers anticipate this and move to the centre of the road.
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* In John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', for some unknown reason the rifle armed Norwegians use their helicopter to do strafing runs on the Thing!dog, instead of just hovering in the air and sniping at it (which would have made for more accurate shooting). Of course, the real reason they did so was for [[RuleOfDrama dramatic purposes]].
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* In John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', for some unknown reason the rifle armed assault rifle-armed Norwegians use their helicopter to do strafing runs on the Thing!dog, instead of just hovering in the air and sniping at it (which would have made for more accurate shooting). Of course, the real reason they did so was for [[RuleOfDrama dramatic purposes]].
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* Happens with ornithopters in intro to ''Series/ChidrenOfDune]]''.
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* Happens with ornithopters in the intro to ''Series/ChidrenOfDune]]''.''Series/ChildrenOfDune]]''.
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* In ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'', a Stuka dive bomber tries to strafe the fleeing {{Heroes}}. On [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvElm_Dzag starting at 0:35]].
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* In ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'', a Stuka dive bomber tries to strafe the fleeing {{Heroes}}.heroes. On [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvElm_Dzag starting at 0:35]].
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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. A Nazi fighter plane does this to Indy and his father as they're escaping by car.
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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. A Nazi fighter plane does this to strafes Indy and his father as they're escaping by car.
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* In the premiere of ''Series/{{UFO}}'', the motor convoy carrying General Henderson and Commander Straker is attacked by a FlyingSaucer which stafes the nature strips on either side of the road; somehow this crashes their car. The saucer's distinctive high-pitched whine substitutes for the Stuka dive-bombing sound.
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* In the premiere of ''Series/{{UFO}}'', ''Series/UFO1970'', the motor convoy carrying General Henderson and Commander Straker is attacked by a FlyingSaucer which stafes strafes the nature strips on either side of the road; somehow this crashes their car. The saucer's distinctive high-pitched whine substitutes for the Stuka dive-bombing sound.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Wings}}'': Strafing is road-aligned, has muzzle-flashes and MG noises, can have a pattern of bullets approaching the target, only direct hits cause damage, and some missions require strafing infantry. Infantry may take cover or dodge, while vehicles make no reaction (other than AA-guns counter-firing). There's also only one pass of the plane.
