Taking the shot...

To the great fortune of fighter pilots, they rarely see a body... Being someone that they were responsible for eliminating.

So this make their job easier to deal with, they are not thinking that they are probably killing people, it becomes impersonal, you start to think only in the structures or in planes that your taking down...

There is no big deal, it's just how the things goes on a combat aircraft cockpit. Of course that some pilots may be affected by the "weight" of their actions, but the lack of visual outcome helps to think less about it.

The vision is completely different from a ground battlefield, where the corpses are all around, you see people dying, in all the possible ways, you smell the blood, you feel the pain... A "spetacular" view of the chaos... Nothing compares to this.

Then we come to the time of the mission where the pilot needs to shoot and thus eliminate the target and so the mission will be accomplished. Today this is a relatively simple action, follow your waypoints, take care with enemy radar stations, penetrate in enemy airspace and launch you bag or "war toys" to make the enemy have some fun.

But in the time to pull the trigger or push the button can be a very tense moment... Many things can come in a pilot mind but it all must go, to let the pilot do what have to be done!

The duty comes first, and the shot is done... TARGET HIT! The mission is accomplished, time to get back home...

Doesn't matter what we have blown up, I gotta an hot coffe waiting me on the base, and a delicious dinner to eat later...

Jaguar One...

Fox two!