Blowin' Up Stuff Real Good Agin Open Thread

No this is a new one.

This is interesting if you're into guns: The slow-motion guys fire a teeny-tiny pin gun at the back of a bullet to see if they can ignite the second bullet by hitting its primer with its teeny-tiny bullet. I say it's interesting because it turns out, without a barrel, and without a closed hammer at the back of the barrel to force all gas forwards, a bullet that's been sparked off by a hit on its butt isn't much of a projectile. One could say it's a damp squid.

Okay that was a teeny-tiny round. Here are some bigger ones.

.50 caliber fired into a ballistic head. BTW, a lot of these cause actual fire/light upon impact just due to the energy of impact.

I did link this a while back -- firing the .577 Tyrannosaur elephant gun at blocks of ballistic gel.

And he tests whether the .577 Tyrannosaur could stop an actual Tyrannosaurus Rex, firing it at a balilstic head in the shape of a Tyrannosaurus's.

A nock volley gun is a multi-barrel rifle designed to shoot an entire volley of bullets with one shot. This particular volley gun is called "The Kraken," and has seven barrels each firing a .61 caliber round. Apparently it's based on a gun used in shipboard combat-- you'd fire it from the crow's nest down to the decks.

It's a big gun with a lot of recoil.

A howitzer shell fired at a ballistic torso. And then, that tank shell fired at a ballistic head.

A tank shell fired at a ballistic torso.

In this clip, they fire an RPG-7 (rocket propelled grenade, which isn't really what it stood for, but that has been made up as a retronym to explain the Russian initials) at a ballistic torso. In the first hit, the grenade doesn't detonate, because it passes through the torso quickly enough that its detonation mechanism doesn't detect it as an actual stop/hit. So they put some cinderblocks behind the torso, and make the detonator more sensitive, and blow it up real good.

Firing bowling balls out of a cannon:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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