Talk:Biplane/@comment-70.53.100.239-20120901230659/@comment-205.134.201.25-20120929194118

Bending projectiles a pretty slow compared to guns(unless your talking about lightning)

A bullet flys fast. Real fast. Unless you create a teleknetic shield like an earth or fire shield around you are not going to move your hand fast enough to block it.

A metalbender would have to make his movement a split second before the bullet leaves the barrel and with automatic weapons it might be useless. Unless metalbenders can create an invisible shield like the Matrix they stand no change. Also if the bullet is purified lead and copper they could not bend it.

A firebender has to create a super hot and high pressure fire shield to stop that kind of pressure from a bullet. Bullets are pretty much on fire and the copper jacket prevents it from melting.

Ice? It has to be super thick to stop a rifle bullet.

Unless benders are super agile compared to the real world a standard bender soldier would lose to the worse soldier with a gun in a fight especially if they were at long range.