True idiocy survives like cockroaches.  The breakaway escape system returned in this proposal from the 1950s.  Take a perfectly good fighter plane and compromise the airframe with a breakaway section that adds to the weight and adds all sorts of wonderful places for control cables and wiring to go wrong, and all for a marginal improvement in safety over an ejector seat. 

Of course, if you take a hit forward of the wings you're ground scatter, but what do you expect for two bits?  Chimes?

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