Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Sonic Boom As A Weapon - Russian Top Secret M-25 Hell Reaper" video.

Sonic booms can be used as an ersatz weapon. I did come across a reference to and incidence in the one of the Gulf Wars were a US pilot used a sonic boom to help some British Special Air Service (SAS) troopers who were in close contact with a force of Iraqis. The firefight was at night and with low cloud the US pilot was finding it very difficult to launch an attack in support of the SAS. It was obvious from the radio that things were getting extremely deadly but though he felt he knew where the Iraqis where he did not feel he could attack them without putting the SAS troopers in danger. So out of desperation he came up with a plan. He dived his aircraft towards the ground where he believed the Iraqis were, going supersonic as he did so. At last minute he pulled up but the sonic boom traveled on, as he knew it would, and hit the ground sounding like an explosion. The Iraqis knowing that there was an aircraft above them believed they were being attacked by the aircraft and withdrew. It was not until sometime later that the US pilot was told that his plan had worked and it had allowed the troopers to withdraw.
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@waynesimpson2074 Thanks for setting the record straight👍
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