I am a retired Army Combat Medic, Baghdad Class of 2004. I love your videos. As a Medic, I was attached to our Heavy Mortar Platoon, 120mm. One thing that was taught to us medics, is how a shock wave from an explosion could and would, depending on how close you were to the detonation, cause internal injuries, such as rupturing internal organs. So just because externally, the patient may not seem that bad, well, looks can be misleading.
A way I like to describe being hit by a shockwave is to slap water as hard as you can with your hand. Now times that by 100 and imagine it hitting your whole body with shrapnel.
Navy Corpsman here and your right, the concussion wave can cause horrible injuries. The affect on the lungs can literally burst blood vessels causing drowning and you may never see an obvious injury.
They sat the watermelon on top of a heavy liquid like material. Im guessing that binary explosive is working to push up as well as down except the explosion can move thru what’s in it but not underneath. That is amazing tho. I do little things like this with my son and firecrackers
@@danamullins2723 That is not a shaped charge. It was directed into the table by the mass of the melon confining the blast towards the bottom. Google it.
I love this channel so so much. One of the few rare gems on the internets. This footage was just unreal. I wonder if this footage is beneficial to Ironclad to fine-tune their product haha. We also need a slo-mo guys, BHS, Kentucky Ballistics, Demo Ranch, GY6 vids, Full Mag to form the ultimate ultra mega super collab to end all collabs to get all their collective equipment to catch some epic magical footage at every sorts of angles.
@@watcheater9229 Oh I was wondering if the reaction pattern, which can be somewhat seen in some of the footage, helps them with their current composition, size of the avg reactants, etc. It obviously works very well; but I’m wondering if the footage validates their work, or they may find something interesting to improve upon it.
oh fuck my bad i didn't realize that's what you meant lol sorry for being aggressive as hell i just expected a specific type of people from the comments and assumed you were a dick or something
Seeing you guys blow up the miniature house reminded me of the various high detail miniatures (or 'bigatures', in some cases) that movies would use for destructive practical effects shots! If you guys were able to partner with a miniatures building channel who would be willing to build something to be destroyed/blown up in slow motion, that would be amazing!!
3:06 man this shot is just so unique. People don’t usually bother to do this because it makes everything else too dark. But this allows you to directly compare the appearance of a conventional explosive detonation and nuclear detonations, and really get an appreciation for the scales at play
Wait until 2024 to witness the massive combined explosions of Trumperite and MAGArite. Behold the disintegration and vaporisation of the criminal lunatic Democrat Left.
Hey guys, an idea! You should put a EN ISO 12312-2 filter on the camera. That's used on telescopes to observe the surface of the Sun. This should help you recording the explosions fine-detailed but without lowering the resolution.🤘🏼
@@WCM1945 I think you're probably right. Filtering most of the light or using a set of Rapatronic cameras (the type they used to photograph nuclear weapon fireballs in the first few milliseconds) would get around the brightness problem but the inner parts of the explosion would still be obscured. Flash x-ray cameras can image inside explosions and were used to verify the implosion mechanisms of nukes, but I can't imagine it would be easy to get access to one of those.
I see on the 5lb that the bullet hit right near the bottom. I was wondering if the blast itself would have looked different or you hit it in the middle or the top? Great job guys, keep it up.
again some amazing footage! Ive used your video's in some of my lessons as visual material and i can say the guys love it. maybe an idea for future content : shaped charges and EFP? I would love to see a shaped charge on rhm in slowmotion 😮
@@TheAbyssalStorm I actually watch wendover productions, real life lore, and brick immortar but I'll have to check them out since I'd never heard of them
Amazing video guys!! You should make a plexiglass bath tub and fill it full of water, then shoot one of those 5lb containers submerged 3/4 under water with a torso in the tub as well lol. It would be an awesome demonstration of the effects water has on explosives!
i think im most curious about the flame front propegration through binary explosives, maybe try some different lenght and thickness of binary lines and see if you can see a proper flame front on 5 pounds laid out in a 3-6 feet line
I would love to see camera angles from behind the dummy. Put up some bulletproof glass in front of the camera to keep it safe and do the same thing. I bet it would be a lot of useful information about the behavior of the target after the blast. Keep up the good work!
It totally makes my day when I see something go FOOM!! You guys should do a big clear block of ice. Put a sheet of black paper or plastic between the binary and the ice to shroud the light so we can see the shatter effect clearly!!!
At 2:14, you’ve effectively got quite a nice streak camera image. Because the explosion all happened while the (non-high-speed) camera frame was being read, you’ve got a timeline from the top of the frame to the bottom of the explosion. This means (if you know the speed at which the frame is read) you can work out the duration and propagation speed of the explosion. (Of course as you were also filming this with the other camera at 400k fps you can do all that stuff more easily from that footage, but it’s a nice illustration of how more basic equipment can be used in research, depending on what you want to know.)
This is some of your best work! These targets ended up looking more interesting than C4 because the explosions aren't as bright and you can see a lot more details. I like that you did multiple ones at different frame rates. Awesome.
Crazy small scale version of a Mach-stem shockwave! Beginning @ 1:52 The incident wave of the primary blast wave meets with the reflective shockwave off the platform surface. The Y-wave forms just as it does in a nuclear air blast. You should make little pressure sensors to measure over pressure changes.
At 1:38, yes it's there. Good eye. They could try tests at differing heights above the table to see if they can make a better one. Anything getting hit by it would see double the blast overpressure.
Coolest thing about tannerite in slow mo is seeing the bullet impacting the container surface. I love seeing the whole thing chain react in such good detail
Another idea: at 6:24, you talk about that the problem with this explosions is that if you record it dark enough to see the details of explosion then it's too dark for the subject itself. 1. Take 1 frame from the pre-explosion part, and freeze it. 2. Put the explosion on the next layer with 'Lighten' Blend Mode. (In After Effects, or certainly Davinci Resolve should also have this basic feature, from PS.) I can't test it but it may worth a try. The bullet might be made visible using the 'Darken' Blend Mode. With a proper timing of switch from one Blend Mode to another.
I think the problem is the number of light photons getting to the sensor. At 400,000 frames per second, 400x less light is integrated so there are no detectable pixels. When I've run tests to see dark objects like this video, we used blindingly bright lamps to overcome the 'darkness' of full day sun.
8:20 it is the shockwave moving through the melon and it is faster than in the air because the melon is mostly water. shockwaves move way faster in water.
This is awesome. It would be really great if you could measure the temperature near the blast zone like at the ballistic dummy. Keep up the good work. Love it.
I used to enjoy putting firecrackers in clay and setting it off in a room so the blast sticks the clay to the walls, ceiling and floor. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say what it gives some insight into. Clay ball hanging from a string vs ditto but with a block of wood stuck to one side, varying ball and block shape types of blocks and etc it is really fun seeing how the flying clay can be shaped and directed. I don't think there is a good way to do it with so much explosive indoors but maybe less and inside a dumpster. I guess playdoh would be more photogenic than the red sculpting clay I used. The clay does a lot to dampen the sound and fury but probably not a good idea to be in the room when it goes off, if for no other reason than you'll mess up the splatter patterns. Anyway, I think combined with the slow motion camera you could have a lot of fun with hands on learning. Well, hopefully you keep your hands on.
@8:18 - It is the shock wave. You can see the spherical ripple of it's border extend out above the blast by looking at the background logs here @7:48. You can see this same wave in the close-up views as well and it looks like it extends from that lit part of the melon.. So I think it is the result of "bent" light from the shock wave near its boundaries
If I had to guess about the glow at 8:31, it's the shockwave. Right as it's coming out it's going to have really extreme density and the change from air to shockwave pressure is going to difract the light a LOT. So it's picking up the glow of the explosion below and bouncing it around making a sort of glowing shockwave. Nuclear blasts have shockwaves that are so dense that for the first few fractions of a second they are actually opaque.
Awesome footage you guys! So here's what's going on in these detonations: in regards to the explosion with the head, it was just outside of the blast radius, hence less damage than expected. The explosion with the torso obviously used more explosive charge, but it was within the blast radius and suffered much more damage as a result. In regards to the charge inside of the watermelon, the charge was closer to the steel table and had more mass of the watermelon on top of the charge. That's basically a water tamp charge... all that extra mass of watermelon on top forced much more of the blast down into the table, hence the reason it caused much more damage to the table vs a charge sitting there with nothing on top of it. Lastly in regards to a complete or full detonation of a binary charge, a telltale sign of an incomplete or partial definition is the residual brown/orange smoke. That is nitrogen dioxide and is formed by all of the excess oxygen after detonation, reacting with nitrogen formed in the detonation. If the binary charge were oxygen balanced and had an average particle size small enough to allow full high order detonation, there would be no leftover oxygen to react with nitrogen because all of it would react with the fuel in the mixture, and you would have a much more powerful and larger detonation. 😁
How about showing the difference between types of containers for the explosive? Put some in a steel box or similar and see how it changes the effect of the blast.
Getting a couple good sized flat mirrors will help with the lighting for high-speed in the outdoor situation and possibly bring more detail out of the dark. Cheap, and the sun does all the work needed to provide the extra lighting. Just realize that can heat things up a bit once you go past about two of 'em. And those can be staged at a somewhat safe range as long as there's line-of-sight.
You can set off tannerite with a bottle rocket. Drill a hole about 1/4 inch in diameter in the lid, remove stick from bottle rocket, shove the bottle rocket down into the jar through the hole in the lid. Light the fuse and throw, or run away. Fireworks use flash powder to explode, which is more powerful and faster than gun powder, and it's just fast enough to set off tannerite.
I really hope the UA-cam snobs know just how educational this video is. Safety is number 1!! Crazy awesome video guys! I can't wait for the archery vids. 🎉
I used to be in Army artillery. There is an area around the muzzle known as "Danger Area Echo". It's called that because the concussion in this area when the gun fires is stout enough to cause extreme internal injuries. Bad enough that doc essentially comes over to give you drugs so you die in as little pain as possible. Danger Area Echo is also substantially larger than you may think it is.
Also would love to see if you can make shape charges out of them? If you get a metal cone, fill it and place it over a steel door lock. Will it blast the lock out or just blow the metal cone off the door. Thanks! Love your videos, Awesome work!
Interesting. As a suggestion for the development of the topic. Try to shoot different types of explosives: 1) with positive (tetranitromethane), negative (TNT) and close to neutral (PETN) oxygen balance 2) brisant, initiating (azides), intermediates (acetone triperoxide, HMTD) and gas mixes (acetylene/methane with oxygen, etc). 3) Substances with different detonation speeds (from black powder to octogen). They all explode differently. For fun, you can put 50-100 grams of explosives in a large dark plastic cylinder, then there will be no bright light and there will be an interesting video of how the cylinder expands in slow motion. It will also be interesting to shoot how a cumulative jet of copper or other metal is formed, flies and burns through a thick layer of metal, concrete, etc. Well, the icing on the cake: volumetric detonation, when a binary explosive sprays ethylene oxide or something similar and then this mixture detonates. It will be WOW.
I think the glowing "skirt" (as you described it) is the natural wax coating the rind literally combusting in the shock wave and heat. I believe it's a similar phenomen to an oxide layer that reacts and flashes when you fire a bullet into a metallic target (especially an aluminum object). You're literally dumping so much energy into the waxy substance that the oxygen molecules dissociate, generating light and heat.
Just a thought, I believe the ballistic gel is permeable enough to light. So you guys were speculating about what happens to the brain inside the skull when shockwave impacts. Insert a powerful LED light into the brain. With some experimental exposure testing, the internal dynamics should show up nice in high speed.
Could the moving glow in the watermelon (around the 8:40 mark) be from the speed of sound being fast in water, when compared to the air surrounding it?
I tend to agree with the lighting comment. I think you need to get some absurd stage lighting on a generator to nail the exposure. Or maybe flash bulbs (which die in the course of operation) so that you can put them close enough to be useful. What you're doing is awesome, but clearly you're aware and frustrated by the exposure and dynamic range being insufficient to show it beginning to end. Does anyone make a mirroring array so that one lens could feed two bodies? Go super dark and high speed to catch the initial blast and then transition to the footage from the lower frame rate with longer exposure.
7:10, the table bent because the watermelon effectively acted as a tamp down for the explosives. I would expect even binary explosive would bend/crack steel when tamped down.
8:46 looks like a pressure wave in the watermelon changing the refractive index of the melon causing more or less light to flow through causing that pressure wave to glow.
15:29 - Did no one happen to notice the surface ablation off of the dummy's scalp just as the ignition front reached it? Or the triple-ripple caused by the walls bouncing the sonic shock back through the explosion @ 14:43. Shows that the origin point was not 'centered' in the apex of the bunker and the concussion bounced off of one wall, then the second, and the third interference wave where they crossed.
The 'HeadShot': amazing to see that there was enough compression from the fireball hitting the head to re-ignite/whatever all that stuff in the fireball. That head got roasted.
Archery in slow motion is so cool! The arrow looks like a wet piece of spaghetti!! What would be even cooler is archery combined with iron clad targets. If not enough speed, shoot the back of a 209 primer with the arrow first!
I am a retired Army Combat Medic, Baghdad Class of 2004. I love your videos. As a Medic, I was attached to our Heavy Mortar Platoon, 120mm. One thing that was taught to us medics, is how a shock wave from an explosion could and would, depending on how close you were to the detonation, cause internal injuries, such as rupturing internal organs. So just because externally, the patient may not seem that bad, well, looks can be misleading.
A way I like to describe being hit by a shockwave is to slap water as hard as you can with your hand. Now times that by 100 and imagine it hitting your whole body with shrapnel.
God bless you. I love combat medics.
Navy Corpsman here and your right, the concussion wave can cause horrible injuries. The affect on the lungs can literally burst blood vessels causing drowning and you may never see an obvious injury.
Hydrostatic shock is no joke.
Does the damage tend to be due more to shear stress or compression?
Can we take a minute and give some props to whoever built that cart. That things a tank.
They sat the watermelon on top of a heavy liquid like material. Im guessing that binary explosive is working to push up as well as down except the explosion can move thru what’s in it but not underneath. That is amazing tho. I do little things like this with my son and firecrackers
@@shythawks9549 it's known as a shape charge.
Made in Russia.
@@danamullins2723 That is not a shaped charge. It was directed into the table by the mass of the melon confining the blast towards the bottom. Google it.
@@leodmcabre5548 Was looking for the watermelon-shape charge comment lol
Oh man I never get enough of seeing those blast waves that travel in front of the explosion. That’s my favorite part of these.
I love this channel so so much. One of the few rare gems on the internets.
This footage was just unreal. I wonder if this footage is beneficial to Ironclad to fine-tune their product haha.
We also need a slo-mo guys, BHS, Kentucky Ballistics, Demo Ranch, GY6 vids, Full Mag to form the ultimate ultra mega super collab to end all collabs to get all their collective equipment to catch some epic magical footage at every sorts of angles.
fine tune their product?
edit: i changed my wording i was being a dick
@@watcheater9229 Oh I was wondering if the reaction pattern, which can be somewhat seen in some of the footage, helps them with their current composition, size of the avg reactants, etc. It obviously works very well; but I’m wondering if the footage validates their work, or they may find something interesting to improve upon it.
oh fuck my bad i didn't realize that's what you meant lol sorry for being aggressive as hell i just expected a specific type of people from the comments and assumed you were a dick or something
Thank you guys. I've seen people underestimate the pressure of binaries. This brings a better understanding of what can happen.
My day has officially been made.
😕😉
@@joegagnon2268 😁
Glad we could help!
Seeing you guys blow up the miniature house reminded me of the various high detail miniatures (or 'bigatures', in some cases) that movies would use for destructive practical effects shots! If you guys were able to partner with a miniatures building channel who would be willing to build something to be destroyed/blown up in slow motion, that would be amazing!!
3:06 man this shot is just so unique. People don’t usually bother to do this because it makes everything else too dark. But this allows you to directly compare the appearance of a conventional explosive detonation and nuclear detonations, and really get an appreciation for the scales at play
It would be interesting to see what that stuff would do under water, like in a pool or large clear tank.
There's a whole book on under water demo you can get that teaches a ton
Another great video, guys. The footage is just fascinating. 👏 👏 👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wait until 2024 to witness the massive combined explosions of Trumperite and MAGArite. Behold the disintegration and vaporisation of the criminal lunatic Democrat Left.
@@BallisticHighSpeedhey try two to five pounds under like a 5 gallon bucket fill with 3 gallons of gas, it will make a pretty fireball 😃
Hey guys, an idea! You should put a EN ISO 12312-2 filter on the camera. That's used on telescopes to observe the surface of the Sun. This should help you recording the explosions fine-detailed but without lowering the resolution.🤘🏼
I think the compressed and incandescent gases would obscure any detail within the burst. Such would be effectively opaque.
@@WCM1945 I think you're probably right. Filtering most of the light or using a set of Rapatronic cameras (the type they used to photograph nuclear weapon fireballs in the first few milliseconds) would get around the brightness problem but the inner parts of the explosion would still be obscured. Flash x-ray cameras can image inside explosions and were used to verify the implosion mechanisms of nukes, but I can't imagine it would be easy to get access to one of those.
Now that is what you call “Little house all over the prairie”.
😂
This comment definitely wins lol
"Not nearly as destructive this time!"
Famous last words around Adam XD
I see on the 5lb that the bullet hit right near the bottom. I was wondering if the blast itself would have looked different or you hit it in the middle or the top? Great job guys, keep it up.
The owner of Ironclad you’ll get slightly less detonation if hitting at the top, but the middle and near the bottom react about the same 🙂
I never ever get tired of watching these videos. I hope you have a long future her on youtube.
The algorithm must not like you guys because this is gold!
algorithm really doesnt like explosions im pretty sure...
i cant believe these guys dont have more subs yet either honestly
So under rated UA-cam channel
again some amazing footage! Ive used your video's in some of my lessons as visual material and i can say the guys love it. maybe an idea for future content : shaped charges and EFP? I would love to see a shaped charge on rhm in slowmotion 😮
11:32 you'd definitely be looking at TBI and blast lung if you're that close to 2 lb Tannerite. I will hazard a guess that would be instantly lethal.
phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal
This is crazy how violent such a small amount is when you compare it to what happened at the Port of Beirut in 2020 🤯
A fellow Plainly Difficult enjoyer? I respect that
The Beirut one was like a backpack nuke equivalent
@@TheAbyssalStorm I actually watch wendover productions, real life lore, and brick immortar but I'll have to check them out since I'd never heard of them
Amazing video guys!! You should make a plexiglass bath tub and fill it full of water, then shoot one of those 5lb containers submerged 3/4 under water with a torso in the tub as well lol. It would be an awesome demonstration of the effects water has on explosives!
the archery target gives me hope for future videos! :)
Great video as always, guys!
i think im most curious about the flame front propegration through binary explosives, maybe try some different lenght and thickness of binary lines and see if you can see a proper flame front on 5 pounds laid out in a 3-6 feet line
dammit guys!! you out do yourselves with every other video!! great job!
I would love to see camera angles from behind the dummy. Put up some bulletproof glass in front of the camera to keep it safe and do the same thing. I bet it would be a lot of useful information about the behavior of the target after the blast. Keep up the good work!
You can use a mirror too, doesn't matter if that gets broken.
Good point. Less risk there.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252Nailed it. The original comment proposed the what better than the others and you gave them the how.
What a great way to kick off the weekend 🔥🔥
So damn brutal, but also fascinating and cool as hell.
Love it
It totally makes my day when I see something go FOOM!! You guys should do a big clear block of ice. Put a sheet of black paper or plastic between the binary and the ice to shroud the light so we can see the shatter effect clearly!!!
At 2:14, you’ve effectively got quite a nice streak camera image. Because the explosion all happened while the (non-high-speed) camera frame was being read, you’ve got a timeline from the top of the frame to the bottom of the explosion. This means (if you know the speed at which the frame is read) you can work out the duration and propagation speed of the explosion. (Of course as you were also filming this with the other camera at 400k fps you can do all that stuff more easily from that footage, but it’s a nice illustration of how more basic equipment can be used in research, depending on what you want to know.)
This is some of your best work! These targets ended up looking more interesting than C4 because the explosions aren't as bright and you can see a lot more details. I like that you did multiple ones at different frame rates. Awesome.
imagine breaking into a house and hearing "high speed's ready"
😂😂😂
Crazy small scale version of a Mach-stem shockwave! Beginning @ 1:52 The incident wave of the primary blast wave meets with the reflective shockwave off the platform surface. The Y-wave forms just as it does in a nuclear air blast. You should make little pressure sensors to measure over pressure changes.
At 1:38, yes it's there. Good eye. They could try tests at differing heights above the table to see if they can make a better one. Anything getting hit by it would see double the blast overpressure.
Coolest thing about tannerite in slow mo is seeing the bullet impacting the container surface. I love seeing the whole thing chain react in such good detail
Can you guys do some shape charge stuff please?
Thinking same thing
Absolutely!
When you slow a bullet down to 3 or 4 seconds before it hits!
Awesome as always!!
The water content of the watermelon caused the pressure wave to move downwards! nice ! A water explosive charge
Another idea: at 6:24, you talk about that the problem with this explosions is that if you record it dark enough to see the details of explosion then it's too dark for the subject itself.
1. Take 1 frame from the pre-explosion part, and freeze it.
2. Put the explosion on the next layer with 'Lighten' Blend Mode. (In After Effects, or certainly Davinci Resolve should also have this basic feature, from PS.)
I can't test it but it may worth a try.
The bullet might be made visible using the 'Darken' Blend Mode. With a proper timing of switch from one Blend Mode to another.
I think the problem is the number of light photons getting to the sensor. At 400,000 frames per second, 400x less light is integrated so there are no detectable pixels. When I've run tests to see dark objects like this video, we used blindingly bright lamps to overcome the 'darkness' of full day sun.
8:20 it is the shockwave moving through the melon and it is faster than in the air because the melon is mostly water. shockwaves move way faster in water.
This is awesome. It would be really great if you could measure the temperature near the blast zone like at the ballistic dummy. Keep up the good work. Love it.
I used to enjoy putting firecrackers in clay and setting it off in a room so the blast sticks the clay to the walls, ceiling and floor. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say what it gives some insight into. Clay ball hanging from a string vs ditto but with a block of wood stuck to one side, varying ball and block shape types of blocks and etc it is really fun seeing how the flying clay can be shaped and directed. I don't think there is a good way to do it with so much explosive indoors but maybe less and inside a dumpster. I guess playdoh would be more photogenic than the red sculpting clay I used. The clay does a lot to dampen the sound and fury but probably not a good idea to be in the room when it goes off, if for no other reason than you'll mess up the splatter patterns. Anyway, I think combined with the slow motion camera you could have a lot of fun with hands on learning. Well, hopefully you keep your hands on.
@8:18 - It is the shock wave. You can see the spherical ripple of it's border extend out above the blast by looking at the background logs here @7:48. You can see this same wave in the close-up views as well and it looks like it extends from that lit part of the melon..
So I think it is the result of "bent" light from the shock wave near its boundaries
11:24 that shockwave expanding out!
hell yeah. bring the boom
Outstanding capture fellas! It’s not easy to get the proper lighting to capture these shots.
You know better than anyone! Much appreciated.
If I had to guess about the glow at 8:31, it's the shockwave. Right as it's coming out it's going to have really extreme density and the change from air to shockwave pressure is going to difract the light a LOT. So it's picking up the glow of the explosion below and bouncing it around making a sort of glowing shockwave. Nuclear blasts have shockwaves that are so dense that for the first few fractions of a second they are actually opaque.
anything in slow mo looks sick - love your production!!!
Always a treat when y’all post a video. 👍
Awesome footage you guys!
So here's what's going on in these detonations: in regards to the explosion with the head, it was just outside of the blast radius, hence less damage than expected.
The explosion with the torso obviously used more explosive charge, but it was within the blast radius and suffered much more damage as a result.
In regards to the charge inside of the watermelon, the charge was closer to the steel table and had more mass of the watermelon on top of the charge. That's basically a water tamp charge... all that extra mass of watermelon on top forced much more of the blast down into the table, hence the reason it caused much more damage to the table vs a charge sitting there with nothing on top of it.
Lastly in regards to a complete or full detonation of a binary charge, a telltale sign of an incomplete or partial definition is the residual brown/orange smoke. That is nitrogen dioxide and is formed by all of the excess oxygen after detonation, reacting with nitrogen formed in the detonation. If the binary charge were oxygen balanced and had an average particle size small enough to allow full high order detonation, there would be no leftover oxygen to react with nitrogen because all of it would react with the fuel in the mixture, and you would have a much more powerful and larger detonation. 😁
Great job. Thanks for being safe. Amazing results.
How about showing the difference between types of containers for the explosive? Put some in a steel box or similar and see how it changes the effect of the blast.
Getting a couple good sized flat mirrors will help with the lighting for high-speed in the outdoor situation and possibly bring more detail out of the dark. Cheap, and the sun does all the work needed to provide the extra lighting. Just realize that can heat things up a bit once you go past about two of 'em. And those can be staged at a somewhat safe range as long as there's line-of-sight.
Awesome video I can’t wait to do a collaboration with you guys
Nearly headless Nick was a fantastic reference on the spot haha
You guys have such an amazing channel and hope to see you more often!
Have you tried using a polarized lens filter to eliminate some of the light?
As the father of a wonderful toddler, I appreciate the Micky Mouse Clubhouse reference
Another cool video... Thanks for allowing Us to be a part of your Life.... I can't wait to see what the future holds for you guys....
8:47 If you look carefully, you can just see the shockwave advancing ahead of the debris cloud. Very nice.
Also much more clearly at 11:22.
3:18 and a little after
“It looks fake”
Naw, looks like a pint of Guinness being poured, legitimately reminded me of the old advert
The new pit looks awesome by the way!
You can set off tannerite with a bottle rocket. Drill a hole about 1/4 inch in diameter in the lid, remove stick from bottle rocket, shove the bottle rocket down into the jar through the hole in the lid.
Light the fuse and throw, or run away.
Fireworks use flash powder to explode, which is more powerful and faster than gun powder, and it's just fast enough to set off tannerite.
Excellent video as always so keep it up y'all. Definitely interesting to see what happens when you "slow it down". 🙂
You guys are super impressive, for such a new channel you guys are fucking killing it! 🎉
7:11 It's Watermelon Time... but only very briefly. 🤣 I hope Scott has seen this video.
I really hope the UA-cam snobs know just how educational this video is. Safety is number 1!! Crazy awesome video guys! I can't wait for the archery vids. 🎉
I used to be in Army artillery. There is an area around the muzzle known as "Danger Area Echo". It's called that because the concussion in this area when the gun fires is stout enough to cause extreme internal injuries. Bad enough that doc essentially comes over to give you drugs so you die in as little pain as possible. Danger Area Echo is also substantially larger than you may think it is.
These guys are so legit 🔥
I ALWAYS look forward to these videos ❤
Fantastic video! It would be interesting to see bullets vs a meat target in slo mo. Like Paul's target that he uses.
That was incredible to watch in slow motion
Also would love to see if you can make shape charges out of them? If you get a metal cone, fill it and place it over a steel door lock. Will it blast the lock out or just blow the metal cone off the door. Thanks! Love your videos, Awesome work!
@supercomp65 Oh cool! Thanks for the explanation!
Why don't you have more subs? Your videos are so amazing, definitely the best videos of all UA-cam.
Interesting. As a suggestion for the development of the topic.
Try to shoot different types of explosives:
1) with positive (tetranitromethane), negative (TNT) and close to neutral (PETN) oxygen balance
2) brisant, initiating (azides), intermediates (acetone triperoxide, HMTD) and gas mixes (acetylene/methane with oxygen, etc).
3) Substances with different detonation speeds (from black powder to octogen).
They all explode differently.
For fun, you can put 50-100 grams of explosives in a large dark plastic cylinder, then there will be no bright light and there will be an interesting video of how the cylinder expands in slow motion.
It will also be interesting to shoot how a cumulative jet of copper or other metal is formed, flies and burns through a thick layer of metal, concrete, etc.
Well, the icing on the cake: volumetric detonation, when a binary explosive sprays ethylene oxide or something similar and then this mixture detonates. It will be WOW.
I think the glowing "skirt" (as you described it) is the natural wax coating the rind literally combusting in the shock wave and heat. I believe it's a similar phenomen to an oxide layer that reacts and flashes when you fire a bullet into a metallic target (especially an aluminum object). You're literally dumping so much energy into the waxy substance that the oxygen molecules dissociate, generating light and heat.
Slow mo guys n In a room with you guys. It’s the perfect nerd/guy combo😊
Awesome videos ❤. You guys bring the best mix of expertise to make this work just right. Love it!
Can we take a minute and give some props to that badass Butterfly at 9:34 around 5 o´clock down from the head?! Megachad!!!
8:30. I think the watermellon became or discharged corona plasma for a moment. colour is very close to ionised nitrogen gas in the air.
Just a thought, I believe the ballistic gel is permeable enough to light. So you guys were speculating about what happens to the brain inside the skull when shockwave impacts. Insert a powerful LED light into the brain. With some experimental exposure testing, the internal dynamics should show up nice in high speed.
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Could the moving glow in the watermelon (around the 8:40 mark) be from the speed of sound being fast in water, when compared to the air surrounding it?
The ATF: - "We're here to search your premises as we have reason to..."
Me: 4:31
I tend to agree with the lighting comment. I think you need to get some absurd stage lighting on a generator to nail the exposure. Or maybe flash bulbs (which die in the course of operation) so that you can put them close enough to be useful.
What you're doing is awesome, but clearly you're aware and frustrated by the exposure and dynamic range being insufficient to show it beginning to end.
Does anyone make a mirroring array so that one lens could feed two bodies? Go super dark and high speed to catch the initial blast and then transition to the footage from the lower frame rate with longer exposure.
@7:29 Foreshadowing
Note to self: Do NOT pet a binary explosion. Keep hands AWAY from explosions. 😂
You’d think we’d have learned that by now 😂
Interesting blast reflections with the five pounder. Subscribed!
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Foreshadowing 💯
Way cool video! Also this could be used as a great safety example for those non knowing people blowing up lawn mowers at close range
"It's extremely difficult to crack welds"
Clearly has never seen my welds
7:10, the table bent because the watermelon effectively acted as a tamp down for the explosives.
I would expect even binary explosive would bend/crack steel when tamped down.
Amazing vid.... Good work fellas
8:46 looks like a pressure wave in the watermelon changing the refractive index of the melon causing more or less light to flow through causing that pressure wave to glow.
15:29 - Did no one happen to notice the surface ablation off of the dummy's scalp just as the ignition front reached it?
Or the triple-ripple caused by the walls bouncing the sonic shock back through the explosion @ 14:43. Shows that the origin point was not 'centered' in the apex of the bunker and the concussion bounced off of one wall, then the second, and the third interference wave where they crossed.
FLAMETHROWER! now That would be an Awesomely beautiful shots.
Bullets of different caliber go through balloons full of water.
The 'HeadShot': amazing to see that there was enough compression from the fireball hitting the head to re-ignite/whatever all that stuff in the fireball. That head got roasted.
11:24 does anyone know why the footage is messing up as the shockwave moves past 🤔i havent seen that before in any other slow motion footage before 🤔
You guys are freaking awesome, I love the videos. Keep up the awesomeness
Archery in slow motion is so cool! The arrow looks like a wet piece of spaghetti!! What would be even cooler is archery combined with iron clad targets. If not enough speed, shoot the back of a 209 primer with the arrow first!