re: Serious question concerning shooting at a moving target (vid link added)

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False. It will be like shooting with a crosswind equal to the speed of the chopper.

ETA: Assuming you were shooting straight out of the side of the chopper perpendicular to the direction of travel

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uumm no. of course the velocity will slow due to the drag through the air. just like having a crosswind. But what i said is correct. if you are tranlating in a direction and fire a bullet, the bullet will continue to translate.

this is just like the whole dropping a bullet and firing one but ad a 3rd dimension. drag slows the bullet going forward and sideways.

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I'm thinking Downshift is correct here...the speed of the chopper is like shooting into a crosswind of the same speed, thus compensating by leading the target the appropriate windage for, say a 50 mph crosswind.

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that is if you assume you are and the object are stationary and you have a crosswind...... yes easier to calculate on paper.