HYDRAULIC PRESS VS OLD AND MODERN ARMOR

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  • @garrettord3304
    @garrettord3304 Рік тому +3277

    I love the "Do not repeat at home" warning, as though we're all going to pull out our hydraulic presses and punch holes through all the spare titanium armor plates we have lying around.

    • @VogatronYT
      @VogatronYT Рік тому +52

      Wdym, just finished up picking up the pieces of glass that my shard of metal broke when it hit the neighbors window. I also fucked up my hydraulic press. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • @Datrebor
      @Datrebor Рік тому +8

      No worries here as mine can't make that much force. It's made for lighter softer stuff.

    • @Carboy45
      @Carboy45 Рік тому +6

      Yup well they have to better be safe then be sorry and get sued & someone getting injured or worse killed u see how many safety procautions they took around the press just imagine if their was none.

    • @Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke
      @Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke Рік тому +6

      Well, they had to get more careful after that incident with the documentary about the Manhattan Project.

    • @Datrebor
      @Datrebor Рік тому +4

      @@Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke Did someone tried that at home? What happened? I wanted to try that myself but don't know how. Just think, to be able to teleport to another place and time.

  • @nervsouly
    @nervsouly Рік тому +9495

    I've seen this press destroy so many things... I was quite surprised when something actually managed to push back for once.

    • @emmw7794
      @emmw7794 Рік тому +181

      Rifle plates can stop any Small arms bullet except maybe a 50 bmg. They are strong af. I have some armor plates myself.

    • @Vulcan_Raa
      @Vulcan_Raa Рік тому +148

      He took explosions to a whole new level. And there was no bomb. Dam!!!

    • @x_andy7407
      @x_andy7407 Рік тому +87

      pay attention to the hydraulic tips, they use different tips..i doubt the results they get.

    • @sennevolyn
      @sennevolyn Рік тому

      this pushed back totally ua-cam.com/video/snEKkZfV3AM/v-deo.html

    • @frankfurt9679
      @frankfurt9679 Рік тому +40

      "push back" .... now ain't that a Newtonian term :)

  • @tl3139
    @tl3139 Рік тому +20351

    The greatest fear of tank drivers everywhere is that someone is going to sneak up to a tank, setup a hydraulic press, and slowly penetrate the armor.

  • @Lycan4
    @Lycan4 Рік тому +137

    Even with the countdown, the steel explosion at the end jump-scared me. Holy crap! That was so instant!

  • @majortwang2396
    @majortwang2396 Рік тому +4238

    I love the "do not try this at home" warning.
    If I had a hydraulic press, there would be no stopping me

    • @beltrangarrote1982
      @beltrangarrote1982 Рік тому +33

      I’d try it at home. But like at home in the living room with the cats sneaking.

    • @eggchin22x78
      @eggchin22x78 Рік тому +42

      why don't you have a hydraulic press at home.

    • @mcyclonegt
      @mcyclonegt Рік тому +5

      I think that armor would disagree

    • @Handepsilon
      @Handepsilon Рік тому +6

      Hydraulic press at home :

    • @rrrohan2288
      @rrrohan2288 Рік тому +8

      everyone that uses a press is impressive to me

  • @killerbunny7206
    @killerbunny7206 Рік тому +3654

    That plate went from passive defense to counteroffensive, real quick.

    • @Daily-Trending-Viral
      @Daily-Trending-Viral Рік тому +90

      Like Ukraine ❤

    • @kittytrail
      @kittytrail Рік тому +70

      ​@@Daily-Trending-Viral it ended up faster in broken armor in the fabled ukies counter-offensive though... 🙄

    • @nbsp3527
      @nbsp3527 Рік тому +64

      @@Daily-Trending-Viral Like Cocainelensky 😘

    • @Vhite
      @Vhite Рік тому +72

      ​@@kittytrailStill going strong, vatnik.

    • @kittytrail
      @kittytrail Рік тому

      @@Vhite still kvetching about the million vaillant ukies counter-offensive of last Summer that ended up being a year late and turned be a one way trip to explosive leg number reduction land or death for them poor ukies while the kievan grifters kept on buying multi-millions luxury properties in Europe, Israel and the UK, sipping Champagne and laughing at how stupid those poor ukies goyim are? yeah, right, still going strong... 🙄

  • @OriginalLictre
    @OriginalLictre Рік тому +1994

    This video provides a critical example of the importance of making sure that your protective measures can stand up to sudden fractures or shatters at the upper end of the scale of the forces being used for testing.

    • @TheScandoman
      @TheScandoman Рік тому +74

      And hearing protection, too!

    • @jotto64
      @jotto64 Рік тому +62

      Nice and interresting video 👍 However, it was a bit ironic that chipboard plates were used as protection when testing state of the art armour to destruction 🤔

    • @halvarmc671
      @halvarmc671 Рік тому +16

      Say you don't know how modern armor works without saying it. Modern armor is designed to be reactive and provide a counter concussion to absorb.

    • @OmikronTitan
      @OmikronTitan Рік тому +36

      @@halvarmc671 Uh, think you responded to the wrong comment. Not sure this has anything to do with the video being an example for the importance of protective safety measures.

    • @MrSquishles
      @MrSquishles Рік тому +36

      @@halvarmc671 he's not talking about the armor, he's talking about the presses "OOO shit" protection. If he where standing nearby this could have killed him, as it is it just cost him a camera.

  • @gking1022
    @gking1022 9 місяців тому +56

    One of the best Uno Reverse cards I’ve seen on UA-cam.

    • @k4tar781
      @k4tar781 9 місяців тому +2

      to be honest this is russian channel which named crazy russian experiments

  • @loyalsandman
    @loyalsandman Рік тому +1587

    Can you imagine if he had a thermal camera, the amount of heat produced by the pressure must have been insane.

    • @Felix-Sited
      @Felix-Sited Рік тому +83

      I would love to see that. Especially because it was cold in the first place. Would have been very interesting indeed.

    • @Felix-Sited
      @Felix-Sited Рік тому +48

      ​@@wagu7003 We actually did. Those sparks you saw were molten metal, and they were so much cooler 1 meter away from their inception at around 3000-4000 degrees Celsius.

    • @greg77389
      @greg77389 Рік тому +2

      Not really. It's not a gas dude, it doesn't follow ideal gas laws.

    • @undrgrndhp
      @undrgrndhp Рік тому

      I thought the same! Thought of one of those solidworks stress simulations that get all red

    • @compwiz00
      @compwiz00 Рік тому

      @@greg77389
      I bend steel pretty often. bending a piece of 0.25 inch mild steel 90 degrees in a 2 inch die makes it heat several degrees and become noticeably warm to the touch.

  • @jstephan03
    @jstephan03 Рік тому +1625

    You should add thermal imaging camera to these tests. The heat generated from friction would be amazing to see.

    • @AncientEvilSaiyan
      @AncientEvilSaiyan Рік тому +57

      and a better slowMo camera

    • @mojaveclimber
      @mojaveclimber Рік тому +4

      Abrupt yield.

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 Рік тому +13

      @@AncientEvilSaiyan and faster hydraulic press as he was cooling the plate with this ball for 10 seconds...

    • @jdogdarkness
      @jdogdarkness Рік тому +2

      Good idea

    • @vovkoTube
      @vovkoTube Рік тому

      The thing I want to ask

  • @Johnny_200
    @Johnny_200 Рік тому +1633

    All of this makes you actually frigthened of the things that these armors stand against. After all, the armor of WW2 was already tough and that was already difficult to deal with. But the modern one that survived a lot more punishment makes you actually impressed about what modern anitarmor weapons can actually DO.

    • @willkenny5687
      @willkenny5687 Рік тому +211

      Do not forget that the majority of modern tank armor uses higher quality alloys than what was shown here, and also usually is layered with some form of composite (usually advanced ceramics or in the case of the abrams, spent uranium-derived materials) that works in conjunction with the high end alloys to slow, catch, and disperse the energy of, modern super high velocity anti-tank rounds, as well as handle the heat jets from modern shaped charges. A T-90M, Abrams of any model, or a Leopard 2 of any model would simply sneer at any cannon or AP round that WWII could feasibly throw at them.

    • @skitidet4302
      @skitidet4302 Рік тому +69

      @@willkenny5687 "A T-90M, Abrams of any model, or a Leopard 2 of any model would simply sneer at any cannon or AP round that WWII could feasibly throw at them."
      From the front? Most definitely. From the sides? Then I would be a bit concerned. From the back or top? They're a goner. Even ww1 artillery would go though the roof of a modern tank like a hot knife through butter.
      Also, your tank list is weird, why list the T-90M, which is a top of the line tank, along with any model of Abrams and Leopard 2? An original Abrams or Leopard 2 is no where close to a T-90M, they are more like a T-72B but with a much worse gun in the case of the Abrams who originally only mounted the near obsolete L7 105mm riffled gun. The soviets where way ahead when it comes to guns as they already moved to a 115mm smoothbore gun back in the 60s when they made the T-62. Even the latest version of Abrams would probably be at a disadvantage against the T-90M as the Abrams tank has bigger weakpoint in the upper glacis. In a hull down fight, it's anyone's guess who has the better chance of penning the other since both armor compositions are unknown to the public at this point.

    • @carlosmarquez5901
      @carlosmarquez5901 Рік тому +18

      It would be very interesting to see WW2 naval armor

    • @willkenny5687
      @willkenny5687 Рік тому +103

      @@skitidet4302 The latest version of the abrams at a disadvantage against a T-90M? Don’t make me laugh. The M1a1 abrams handled T72s using the same 2a46m main gun as the t90m in iraq, and was never penetrated. I have strong doubts that that situation has changed dramatically enough to put the M1a2sepv3 at substantial risk.
      The soviets in the 50’s absolutely were leading the way by a lot when it came to tank technology, and the IS-3 was definitely better than anything the allies or axis had at the time, but materials technology has come a long way since then, I have very strong doubts that even its 122mm gun with WWII era ammo could take out a modern mbt.
      And the reason as to why I included all of those tanks together is because the original M1, the original leopard 2s, and the T90M, all use technology from the 80’s and 90’s, and are thus roughly contemporary if not equivalent.

    • @autogaming8324
      @autogaming8324 Рік тому +70

      @@skitidet4302
      >Iraq
      >Ukraine
      Yeah nah I’m taking the Abrams and the Leo 2. They 100% are in the same category as, or are better than, the T-90M

  • @Resistance718
    @Resistance718 11 місяців тому +13

    He was shaken to the core..But it was the most chilling moments of all..Good job..

  • @OldManTenno
    @OldManTenno Рік тому +3833

    Crazy to see that modern armor can almost stand up to the pressure I have to go through as an adult…

    • @briancarey1116
      @briancarey1116 Рік тому +116

      Ice-cold ball forced against you until you just can't take it anymore and bust?
      I wish I had your problems.

    • @vincent_hall
      @vincent_hall Рік тому +12

      You must be a diamond geezer!

    • @vxer1000
      @vxer1000 Рік тому +43

      Taxes will do that to a man

    • @TheXnocf
      @TheXnocf Рік тому +8

      Yup, crazy too that the result is typically the sum of the choices made a long the years. Picking bad material to go with is a poor choice.

    • @AutitsicDysexlia
      @AutitsicDysexlia Рік тому +12

      ​@TheXnocf Yeah, but the materials tend to lie all the way to the alter, so you never know what you're really going to get. 😂

  • @peckelhaze6934
    @peckelhaze6934 Рік тому +2258

    I was expecting the ball to shatter. Quite a surprise.

    • @philipreasons3298
      @philipreasons3298 Рік тому +59

      What he said.
      Wow

    • @Corsa15DT
      @Corsa15DT Рік тому +48

      Everybody did.

    • @bigbubba357m
      @bigbubba357m Рік тому +17

      Same

    • @Sharpless2
      @Sharpless2 Рік тому +152

      @@Corsa15DT except those people that know how spheres work. Unlike on any other shape, on a circle/sphere there are no weak points because stresses are distributed equally along the surface. Theres no corners or edges so there cant be a single weak point.

    • @Bruce6001
      @Bruce6001 Рік тому

      No those balls were too big

  • @mrhappyface4181
    @mrhappyface4181 Рік тому +1407

    Regular people: AR500 is armour, and it's hard to penetrate.
    This man: AR500 is the weapon, and it penetrates.

    • @vihreelinja4743
      @vihreelinja4743 Рік тому +23

      And people working with metal know that ar500 is not a armor material.. as people stated in the comments above..

    • @ctvaughan6623
      @ctvaughan6623 Рік тому +55

      @@vihreelinja4743And people who do basic research know that ar500 is in fact, used in body armor

    • @iangmrotter
      @iangmrotter Рік тому

      What types of armor is it used in?
      @@ctvaughan6623

    • @demoncore5342
      @demoncore5342 Рік тому +7

      Did he use a modern tungsten or uranium sabot equivalent tho? Nope, homogenous rolled toilet paper barely counts as armor since 90's.

    • @johnslugger
      @johnslugger Рік тому +1

      Depleted uranium is a Weapon

  • @hunterrulz609
    @hunterrulz609 Рік тому +458

    Titanium: "I identify as glass."
    1940 Steel: "I identify as rubber."
    2010 Steel: "I identify as YOUR WORST F**KING NIGHTMARE- NOOOO HOW DID YOU FIND OUT THAT I'M ALLERGIC TO LIQUID NITROGEN!?!"

    • @generalgrievous5452
      @generalgrievous5452 Рік тому +1

      slide 5

    • @sli-fox
      @sli-fox 10 місяців тому +14

      Allergic? More like super power. The ball was AR500 and got harder after the dip in nitrogen.

    • @notlegoguy2511
      @notlegoguy2511 8 місяців тому +1

      "ACHOO"

    • @jona2844
      @jona2844 8 місяців тому

      😂😂

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 7 місяців тому +5

      I put safety goggles on to watch this. It was never going to end well.

  • @harlech2
    @harlech2 Рік тому +804

    Fun fact: Old style AP shells weren't actually 'pointed'. They were very much like truncated, shouldered cones. It allowed the shell to penetrate, while alleviating a good bit of the weakness of an acutely angled point. The classical 'bullet' shape was actually just a cap that served to increase the ballistic coefficient and to crush as the projectile made contact to help support the shell so it didn't shatter on impact.

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 Рік тому +54

      The naval dude Drachifell ! has a good episode on shells vs armor.

    • @7071t6
      @7071t6 Рік тому +31

      also its the inside of the AP round that did the job, meaning tungsten carbide and explosive detonation based on tests so that once inside a tank it would exploded killing everyone and also disabling the tank as well?

    • @davidcox3076
      @davidcox3076 Рік тому +45

      Yep. Ballistic capped. Just there for the aerodynamics.

    • @7071t6
      @7071t6 Рік тому +11

      @@davidcox3076 spot on champ

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt Рік тому +22

      I was really expecting that super-cooled ball to shatter way before the armor.... quite the opposite happened. If they could cool a projectiles tip like that, it would penetrate virtually any armor. heh

  • @maxschmerz574
    @maxschmerz574 Рік тому +881

    As a man who knows a little bit about materials, especially metals and steel, this was very very impressive! Thank you.

    • @hamzagorcevic8443
      @hamzagorcevic8443 Рік тому +3

      whats diffrence between new and old , aint they all old same ? Is it only about remaking them again

    • @maxschmerz574
      @maxschmerz574 Рік тому +12

      @@hamzagorcevic8443 Yes and no, the "old" armor from 100 yrs. ago is the same material mixture/structure/steel, but back in those days they didn´t have had the steel compound/mixture discovered or researched from today, so that armor from 2010 is "new".

    • @KoflerDavid
      @KoflerDavid Рік тому +15

      ​​@@hamzagorcevic8443not a metallurgist, but there are better alloys, casting techniques and treatment techniques available to improve the resilience. They are usually secret. Even if available, back in WWII the Soviets might simply not have had the time for all these process as they had to churn out lots of tanks to be able to stop the Axis.

    • @mustang1912
      @mustang1912 Рік тому +1

      It's a fake video, you can see their 2010 armor is rusted and old.

    • @did_I_hurt_you_feefees
      @did_I_hurt_you_feefees Рік тому +4

      Why did the armor shatter instead of the super cold steel sphere?

  • @SWA-Projects
    @SWA-Projects Рік тому +394

    That… Is sick! The armor fragmented and “exploded” just like a grenade with an insane power. I think this was the most dangerous press video I’ve seen so far. Great show

    • @TheScandoman
      @TheScandoman Рік тому +3

      Hmmm...very dangerous!
      Not going to think too much about it: definitely w Top 5!

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy Рік тому +13

      This video is actually a great example of why tanks shouldn't have too sturdy armor; although this isn't a perfect example, seeing it shatter like that is similar to the phenomenon of 'spalling', which is when armour fractures instead of deforming, causing armour chunks on the inside to break loose, which is _extremely_ hazardous for the crew inside. During WWII the T-34 was notorious for this because they made it overly strong, and therefore brittle.

    • @arjensmit6684
      @arjensmit6684 Рік тому +5

      @@TheEDFLegacy So i guess they need a double layer of armor ? A very strong outer layer and a softer inner layer so that the inner layer stops the fragments of the shattering outer layer. Maybe even an armor plate with gradient hardness where the outside is super hard and it gradually softens to the inside would work ?
      Oh well since nothing receives better funding than the army and weapons industies, im sure they have thought about that and tried everything :)

    • @ethanwilliams1880
      @ethanwilliams1880 Рік тому +1

      @@arjensmit6684 Yep, and this is one of the conventions you see with a lot of modern tanks. The M1 Abrams had depleted uranium as a dense shock absorber. The problem there is that they had to stop using that because of situations where uranium did the uranium thing and irradiated the crew, depleted or not. Other materials are still used, however.

    • @ctrlaltdebug
      @ctrlaltdebug Рік тому +2

      @@TheEDFLegacy the T-34 armor here looked as if it was mild steel. These days tanks will use some lightweight kevlar spall liner.

  • @aesoundforge
    @aesoundforge Рік тому +34

    As far as I know, tank armor in ww2 was tempered to be soft to absorb the energy a bit. Tempering to too hard would make the armor brittle. I could see hard armor like this working well as a skin on top of softer steel...Im sure the modern engineers have worked all this out...

    • @NFSgadzooks
      @NFSgadzooks Рік тому +7

      That's kind of the way battleship armor such as Class A face hardened steel is designed, it's also always backed by a softer steel splinter protection layer to catch any spalling

    • @adriantowe278
      @adriantowe278 10 місяців тому +1

      I would like to see some krup steel from ww2

    • @maxbennett5412
      @maxbennett5412 9 місяців тому +5

      The armor of the T-34 that was used was actually a bit hard and you will see a lot of knocked out T-34s with large cracks in them from getting hit.

  • @martintuskevicius8084
    @martintuskevicius8084 Рік тому +1376

    The way that steel blew up at the end was like a giant fragmentation grenade! Pretty scary stuff actually. Now I can see why all of the safety precautions are necessary. I’m very surprised by how much stronger our steel has gotten, I didn’t think there was this much room for improvement.

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 Рік тому +62

      that's how the people on the titan sub died when the sub imploded that quickly

    • @dynagoat7374
      @dynagoat7374 Рік тому +180

      Part of the reason is because different steels are made for different purposes.
      The Soviets could have made armor steel similar to AR500 back in the 1940's. in fact, some of their tank armors were even harder, but there's a reason they didn't continue doing this. Tank armor is not supposed to be as hard as possible. Steel is on a spectrum between hardness (ability to resist deformation) and toughness (ability to withstand shock). Too far in either direction would make it bad for the armor.
      If tank armor was super hard, then it would also be super brittle, and big impacts (like incoming shells) would cause it to shatter super easily. Shards of razor-sharp metal would fly everywhere inside the tank and kill a lot of people.

    • @thewiseoldfox
      @thewiseoldfox Рік тому +14

      ​@@raven4k998the pressure of the water was more deadly than that carbon fiber vessel. If that's what you meant, you'd be correct

    • @c0dy1287
      @c0dy1287 Рік тому +15

      ​@@raven4k998With the Titan they used carbon fiber, very strong but when it fails it fails suddenly instead of deforming and bending which could be the difference between getting back to the surface before total failure. I've also seen an example of this in motorcycle racing where a damaged rear wheel made of carbon fiber failed instantly and blew into pieces so they don't use those now haha

    • @k.mankeiru8359
      @k.mankeiru8359 Рік тому +4

      I think we have long ways to go not just alloy formulas but more like techniques of structural manipulations

  • @rohawaha
    @rohawaha Рік тому +445

    Looked like a very expensive test , really enjoyed it . Thanks for all the work you put into it .

    • @steve00alt70
      @steve00alt70 Рік тому +7

      Dont wry he/she can afford

    • @SlimyShadeSlimShady
      @SlimyShadeSlimShady Рік тому +13

      ​@@steve00alt70They/them for when you don't know the persons sex. Shorter to write they then "^^".

    • @tomboysupremacist
      @tomboysupremacist Рік тому +35

      @@SlimyShadeSlimShady no

    • @sprei1533
      @sprei1533 Рік тому +33

      @@SlimyShadeSlimShady no

    • @kingkong7157
      @kingkong7157 Рік тому +31

      @@SlimyShadeSlimShady no

  • @joshreyes3624
    @joshreyes3624 Рік тому +1366

    The problem with the first test is that spaced and layered armor is meant to bleed energy from the projectile to eliminate its penetration. A constant input of energy, like from the press, is always gonna crack it because that's not what it was meant to defeat

    • @brandonlunchbag
      @brandonlunchbag Рік тому +35

      It looks like they made it to break perpendicular to the normal plane of the installed plate. It cracks perfectly horizontally and vertically. Very impressive.

    • @AzumaSKR
      @AzumaSKR Рік тому +97

      the point of this video is to see how it does against hydraulic press

    • @alexshugarov4700
      @alexshugarov4700 Рік тому +11

      ​@@AzumaSKR They only compare "yellow" and "warm" at the same time. The structure of steel is clearly different, while 1940 sends a big hello to 2010. Steel production is not drawing in office programs by "effective" managers.

    • @jeffbotelho5035
      @jeffbotelho5035 Рік тому +22

      Exactly, a true comparison, like apples to apples, would be a single piece of forged titanium the same size as the steel piece. This is grapes to apples.

    • @labsled
      @labsled Рік тому

      Well then it's fucking shit lmao, armor doesn't get attacked once. If it can't handle a volley of bullets then it just isn't good.

  • @ahmetizmir1081
    @ahmetizmir1081 10 місяців тому +3

    Wow. Congratulations. It was one of the craziest experiments I've ever seen, with unpredictable results. I'm sorry that your equipment was damaged.

  • @p38arover22
    @p38arover22 Рік тому +231

    To be honest, I thought and expected the super-cooled steel ball to shatter. I didn't expect what we saw. I'm glad I wasn't in that room.

    • @hammerheadxray8152
      @hammerheadxray8152 Рік тому +9

      Right, those armor chunks shot out with force. Bad day to be nearby

    • @YouKnowTheyExist
      @YouKnowTheyExist Рік тому +5

      Maybe someone can explain why the ball survived after the dunk in liquid nitrogen. I'm willing to guess that the ball actually work-hardened for several millimeters deep, maybe an inch deep? Is this possible? So if the armor was equally work-hardened, it has a shape that was not as strong to withstand the pressure? Internally the armor did not represent an equally tall sphere, for one thing, but has more middle dimension. This has me stumped somewhat.

    • @1223santigato
      @1223santigato Рік тому +1

      Think it has to do with the liquid nitrogen allowing energy to be conducted more efficiently through the ball to the metal block.

    • @azzarnthelizard
      @azzarnthelizard Рік тому

      @@YouKnowTheyExistthere are 2 big reason why this happen. As someone else pointed out the energy was dispersed a lot more with the liquid nitrogen and the shape of the ball will also disperse energy a lot more than a cone, it will stay more on the surface of the ball meaning it wont damage it as much.

    • @thomasjones7380
      @thomasjones7380 6 місяців тому

      ​@hammerheadxray8152 I was expecting the same thing honestly. My guess as a metallurgist is that the plate already had some cracks initiated in it from the previous test while the ball did not have any stress concentrating flaws. Both materials are brittle given the brittle fracture surface left in the plate but because the plate may have started with more flaws it fractured first.

  • @EagleScoutmano
    @EagleScoutmano Рік тому +107

    This was a pretty effective demonstration of why we use spall liners- to catch all the fragmenting metal.

  • @pab4435
    @pab4435 Рік тому +407

    First time I’ve seen something push back so thoroughly. The press is still undefeated though!

    • @Lubicuss
      @Lubicuss Рік тому +14

      not on the modern armor

    • @StephenDeTomasi
      @StephenDeTomasi Рік тому +45

      Could you say that you were imPRESSed?

    • @beeftec5862
      @beeftec5862 Рік тому +9

      Slow, progressive force isn't really like live munition situations though

    • @billabong9215
      @billabong9215 Рік тому +3

      The modern armour defeated it???

    • @BogotheMonkey
      @BogotheMonkey Рік тому +1

      3:24

  • @golonqa23
    @golonqa23 Рік тому +8

    Love the style of it! I'm lill over 30', and was looking for some no-brainer to watch something while eating my dinner, and damn me, I got blasted straight to 2012! No boring introduction/merch, just straight to the point with the dopeass electro in the background. Cool good old yt vibe :3

    • @cursedayanami
      @cursedayanami 8 місяців тому

      omg cute :3 face at the end

    • @arcadeinvader8086
      @arcadeinvader8086 7 місяців тому

      the apostrophe after 30 threw me for a second

  • @mike_havens
    @mike_havens Рік тому +659

    Holy crap,I thought the metal ball would shatter after being in liquid Nitrogen,I didn't expect everything else around it to break instead(Including the camera!)😂

    • @gamingweasel4633
      @gamingweasel4633 Рік тому +15

      Same, very interesting.

    • @ShadowzSharma
      @ShadowzSharma Рік тому +17

      Actually I was wondering whether his camera ever got broken due to these experiments. And the very next moment 💀✌️

    • @jhonbus
      @jhonbus Рік тому +61

      Putting heat treated steel in liquid nitrogen adds even more hardness (even after it has warmed back up again) Applied Science has a good video on this. BBs are already made to be extremely hard, so I'm not surprised it wrecked the AR500 plate. Obviously brittleness comes into play with dynamic loading so you couldn't expect it to survive being used as a bullet, etc.

    • @Patrik6920
      @Patrik6920 Рік тому +19

      @@jhonbus ..it wouldnt work as a bullet... perhaps on a very short distance wher it does not experience much friction and heating... would be interesting to see someone test actually..from 10m to 1km or so...
      ..and yes just because its already heat threathened (has a martensite electron structure) ... the way electrons move in the material makes it extremely much harder when he electron states r being locked at lower temperatures... but it would be hard to keep a bullet below 80 Kelvin (below -193 deg C), of scientiffic curiousity one could possibly use liquid nitrogen for 20 mins and then use liquid Helium pressurized (-4 Kelvins), it probably wouldent be extremely hard to build a pressure cylinder to pressurize a container for this guys...
      A SHARP WARNING!, LIQUID HELIUM IS VERY DANGEROUS TO PLAY AROUND WITH, IN IT LIQUID STATE IT CAN EXPAND (EXPLODE) WITH A FORCE GREATER THAN TNT!...

    • @erikcourtney1834
      @erikcourtney1834 Рік тому +11

      Ball bearings are made of 52100 steel. Around 1% carbon. They can be fairly hard. There’s more hardenable steel out there. But ar500 is not very hard at all and only it’s outer surface is hard. The core is soft (compared to martensitic steel like 52100 or ball bearings). Ar500 only has .3-.4% carbon, which is low carbon. It’s the .95% manganese and .75% chromium that gives it the boost. It is a very tough or strong steel. But isn’t very hard. This is of course in terms of actual hard steel. I’m not sure what his cone was made of but it wasn’t medium hard steel or hasn’t been heat treated correctly.

  • @crypto_que
    @crypto_que Рік тому +421

    When the disclaimer said “Do not attempt at home” it was really serious. I didn’t expect the armor to go all projectile on the entire lab. That was epic indeed!

    • @GunWillTravel
      @GunWillTravel Рік тому +24

      Oh well, I guess I'll have to return all the hydraulic presses I just got for our family home

    • @Rookie1706
      @Rookie1706 Рік тому +5

      Can I have plz plz plz plz plz, I really want to destroy stuff

    • @JJFX-
      @JJFX- Рік тому +2

      100% knew this would be a disaster. At best the steel ball would go flying like a canon ball. At worst that slab of AR500 would essentially explode and probably damage the press. I was surprised how well the ball stayed put until realizing it was sitting on the indentation from the previous run.
      Regardless, that was pretty f'in awesome.

    • @ralph3333
      @ralph3333 Рік тому +1

      I was expecting the ball to be brittle n explode early on.

    • @JJFX-
      @JJFX- Рік тому +1

      @@ralph3333 It's called cryogenic hardening which can greatly improve strength, hardness and wear resistance when used with certain steels. It will be more 'brittle' but a steel ball like that will be extremely strong in good condition.
      Now if the cryo-treated ball was hardened steel I believe it would have failed exactly as you imagined.

  • @chrissmith2114
    @chrissmith2114 Рік тому +435

    The take-away is - make your tank armour out of ball bearings

    • @vipertwenty249
      @vipertwenty249 Рік тому +43

      Really cool ball bearings.

    • @KnightRadiant-ip9qw
      @KnightRadiant-ip9qw Рік тому +56

      Or destroy modern tank armor using ball bearings.

    • @vipertwenty249
      @vipertwenty249 Рік тому +19

      @@KnightRadiant-ip9qw You'd need to accelerate them to the sort of velocity that meteorites move at - 5 miles/8km per second or greater. A rail gun could do that but the ball bearings would be prone to getting squeezed in half by the rail gun so they'd need to be very special ball bearings - an apfsds round from a modern tank gun would be much cheaper.

    • @rodrigoroaduterte9415
      @rodrigoroaduterte9415 Рік тому +13

      Yeah, frozen to -319°F. You be the crew…

    • @KnightRadiant-ip9qw
      @KnightRadiant-ip9qw Рік тому +5

      @@vipertwenty249 I know. I realized that as I was writing. But who knows? Maybe railguns will end up being the launcher for such a type of ammunition in the future.

  • @paultrigger3798
    @paultrigger3798 10 місяців тому +1

    6:17 there's no practical application for something like this which makes it so awesome. Great demonstration in material hardness

  • @samfischer1733
    @samfischer1733 Рік тому +594

    First of all I hope youre alright and I'm sorry for your destroyed equipment. Secondly THIS IS EXACTLY THE CONTENT WE WANT.

    • @ozone7
      @ozone7 Рік тому +2

      Content???

    • @НікулінВячеслав
      @НікулінВячеслав Рік тому +1

      This person test armor for russian army. You really witsh him long life?

    • @JaggedJack1
      @JaggedJack1 Рік тому +1

      @@НікулінВячеслав Yes, of course. Why wouldn't you?

    • @lonerovergoldenhay
      @lonerovergoldenhay Рік тому +1

      ​@@НікулінВячеславand how exactly is that a bad thing?

    • @moggadah
      @moggadah Рік тому

      ​​@@НікулінВячеславwar is always madness. The technology looks cool but in the end it always makes people suffer. "Coolness" makes people blind. There must be a better way to be human.

  • @Kalah_
    @Kalah_ Рік тому +633

    Diamond: "I was crushed by a hydraulic press; nothing can withstand that thing."
    Steel: "Hold my beer."

    • @vayalond7203
      @vayalond7203 Рік тому +54

      Because Diamond in insanely hard against cutting force (nothing than another diamond can cut a diamond) but also very weak to percussive impacts and crushing

    • @Avetho
      @Avetho Рік тому

      @@vayalond7203 Yeah, diamond is incredibly abrasion resistant, kinda like the AR500 steel brick that exploded in the video, both are used for things like teeth on a bore drill since they just don't wear away quick at all. Diamond is a 98.07 HRC, while AR500 is among the highest steels at 48.3 HRC. 6061-T6 Aluminium is a 60 HRB, and doesn't have an HRC since its just not in the same category of hardness as steel alloys, for comparison an HRB of 82 rates an HRC of 1, or 120 HRB rates 55 HRC, its due to the different weight and from using a different surface, HRB is measured with a 100kg weight on a 1/16" ball while HRC is a 150kg through a diamond brale indenter. There are steels harder than AR500, even up to 68, but much higher than AR500 seems to be going into specialty alloys that are very difficult and expensive to manufacture. There is also CrCoNi, which rates 468 HV hardness, which is about 46 HRC, but it performed excellently from the looks of things at extremely low temperatures, on the order of a yield strength over 500 MPa under 100K, where a material like 2.25Cr-1Mo, or A387 Grade 22, yielded at about 370 MPa at 100K, 380 MPa at around 20K. Shit, I did it again, I rambled but I typed so much I don't want it to go to waste, so lol sorry for the word vomit XD

    • @11C1P
      @11C1P 11 місяців тому +9

      @@vayalond7203 They routinely cut diamonds with water as well as lasers.

    • @bholdr----0
      @bholdr----0 10 місяців тому +8

      I think you may have misunderstood the 'hold my beer' meme- it's supposed to represent when an overconfident person says 'hold my beer' and then quickly gets humiliated by who-or-whatever they had just underestimated.
      The first example was an old Yosemite Sam cartoon where some yahoo is challenged by Sam and asks someone to 'Hold my beer.' before getting shot to pieces.
      But, I agree with your intent re: the strength of steel- most people still think, for example, that titanium is both harder than all steels, and stronger, by mass (which it is not) in addition to by volume (which is may be). And, re: diamond... yeah... (hardness has little to do with tensile/compressive/elastic/plastic/etc strength). Cheers !

    • @hermosillotramita480
      @hermosillotramita480 9 місяців тому +1

      @@bholdr----0 Okay, learned something new today

  • @Ian_Comics
    @Ian_Comics Рік тому +423

    That modern armour reminded me of a story my metal fab teacher told me. Someone he knew was asked to repair some part of a tank, but the nature of the material was secret, so he had to just guess a lot for working on it. After destroying a few tools and failing to cut the material with an acetylene torch, he finally to the military guys who had hired him that they'd have to disclosed what they could in order for him to work on the material. After taking the time to see what could be revealed, one of the first things the military guys asked was if the fabricator was wearing fully closed respiratory equipment and ventilation. Now, you should be doing that stuff in most cases anyway, but when working with normal steel it's not a big issue. After hearing this the fabricator said "I sure am now!"

    • @vincasvosylius6045
      @vincasvosylius6045 Рік тому +88

      depleted uranium?

    • @izoi24
      @izoi24 Рік тому +127

      @@vincasvosylius6045even just manganese steel fumes can be pretty damn nasty, you can get away without wearing a respirator for most materials, especially with good ventilation but any kind of armor plate is probably going to have chromium, vanadium, manganese, etc that you really don’t want to inhale

    • @affegpus4195
      @affegpus4195 Рік тому +11

      ​@@vincasvosylius6045thats for ammo not armor

    • @stonep11
      @stonep11 Рік тому +89

      @@affegpus4195 many modern tanks use depleted uranium plates on top of their standard armor. It’s incredibly dense and helps with sabot rounds.

    • @SherryAPerry
      @SherryAPerry Рік тому +9

      Beryllium

  • @DennisBrown-j5u
    @DennisBrown-j5u Рік тому

    I've watched this so many times, it's practically my new happy place!

  • @AhmetYilmazbnd
    @AhmetYilmazbnd Рік тому +786

    I was expecting the supercooled ball to be much brittle and explode easily when got in contact with the AR500. The outcome was unexpected.

    • @gnubbolo
      @gnubbolo Рік тому +6

      same !!!

    • @Mr4twitch
      @Mr4twitch Рік тому +2

      Right

    • @thatspiderguy8728
      @thatspiderguy8728 Рік тому +1

      ​@@JimmyR42v accurate

    • @deven6518
      @deven6518 Рік тому +29

      I believe cooling the steel makes it stronger. Reducing the heat would also reduce the repulsive forces between its atoms, making it denser for a short period of time. It'd also counteract the heat produced during compression, allowing it to retain integrity for longer, since heat causes expansion and that expansion isn't uniform which wof lead to catastrophic failure.
      I'm not sure what steel it was but I think stainless steel gets stronger at cryogenic Temps. Idk,

    • @MeganChic
      @MeganChic Рік тому +10

      The steel acts like a heat sink and start sucking the cold out of the ball bearing vary fast

  • @KGhaleon
    @KGhaleon Рік тому +244

    10 year old child: "Why don't we just make planes out of this?"

    • @God-of-canine
      @God-of-canine 8 місяців тому +17

      That’s what the MiG-29 wanted to do. But it was already a heavy load of crap with its powerful engines NEEDED to even get that thing of the ground.

    • @thatoneVtolvrplayer
      @thatoneVtolvrplayer 8 місяців тому +7

      In other word because steel is heavy as shit

    • @setesh1294
      @setesh1294 8 місяців тому +9

      They did, with the MiG-25. It's a piece of shit.

    • @williewilson2250
      @williewilson2250 8 місяців тому +9

      The blackbird made it work, all ironically from the Soviet titanium supply

    • @draggy6544
      @draggy6544 8 місяців тому +1

      Heavy

  • @daesong1378
    @daesong1378 Рік тому +91

    That “epic moment” was an understatement! That was way more “epic” than I was expecting.

    • @petenikolic5244
      @petenikolic5244 Рік тому +6

      I actually thought the ball would explode as it had been frozen in LN

    • @TheRealBatabii
      @TheRealBatabii Рік тому +1

      ​@@petenikolic5244yeah I thought freezing would make the ball weaker not stronger

    • @avixs1543
      @avixs1543 10 місяців тому

      @@TheRealBatabii freezing metal to near 0 will cause it to harden like nothing else. it was literally to hard to break, soo the block of hardened steel broke first and very violently

  • @InstrucTube
    @InstrucTube 9 місяців тому +1

    I mean, steady and continuous pressure will get through anything if there's enough of it, discounting material hardness of course. This doesn't accurately simulate things like bullets or artillery. Still cool though. Pressure welding that titanium at the beginning was pretty sweet.

  • @ironmonkey1512
    @ironmonkey1512 Рік тому +155

    The AR stands for 'Abrasion Resistant', it's not just for armor but used anywhere in industry where it needs to be resistant to abrasion.

    • @LawAbidingCitizen117
      @LawAbidingCitizen117 Рік тому +2

      Thanks for sharing.

    • @Texas2Step79
      @Texas2Step79 Рік тому +3

      Automatic Rifle

    • @micjubba709
      @micjubba709 Рік тому +1

      Armour Republic

    • @stefanmolnapor910
      @stefanmolnapor910 Рік тому +6

      It stands for Assault Rifle!!!

    • @heartobefelt
      @heartobefelt Рік тому +8

      correct and the 500 refers to the ISO standard and is 500 Brinell Hardness , There is also 600 Brinell hardness available , called AR600 or QT600 , QT refers to "Quenched and Tempered"

  • @SmokingGun39
    @SmokingGun39 Рік тому +606

    AR500 is typically used in abrasion resistant application like feeder bins for asphalt. Very hard stuff but also incredibly brittle

    • @danielmannelig1677
      @danielmannelig1677 Рік тому +13

      and body amour

    • @guessmyhandle
      @guessmyhandle Рік тому +48

      Thats why we back the armor up with a splinter shield made of softer steel.
      At least the Navy did... can't talk about tanks.

    • @bebetter5520
      @bebetter5520 Рік тому +2

      It also work hardens while cutting...

    • @Erik_coolman
      @Erik_coolman Рік тому +16

      Tank armor does not want armor that is brittle. A single impact could make the armor shatter or weaken to the point of breaking

    • @glowstickqueen7139
      @glowstickqueen7139 Рік тому +15

      Yes very brittle, it fractures only at 350 tons.

  • @manifestgtr
    @manifestgtr Рік тому +49

    The ending is a pitch perfect demonstration of how much energy goes into something like this. “Oh it’s just squeezing stuff”….naw man, the amount of potential energy in a demonstration like this is firmly in the “lethal” range. When several hundred tons of pressure finally equalizes (the armor breaks), it can send high speed, heavy shrapnel in any direction, doing the type of damage that would make a bullet jealous.

  • @naponroy
    @naponroy Рік тому +2

    So the old armour was probably just a basic steel a bit harder, probably carbon 0.40 or so. Not much in alloying to *really* strengthen it.
    Ar500 is heat treated high hardness but not a ballistic grade of armour.
    It used for bulldozer blades, shovels, garbage truck bodies in the bin where they compact it. Those big ass mining dump trucks like a 777 as the liner in the box. 500 is a reading in the Brinnell hardness scale. You can get 300, 350, etc up to 600 in the market. Look up SSAB Hardox 500 if you want tech details
    Hardox is a tradename by company ssab. But the end product is kinda the same, everyone who makes it has they own name.
    Ballistic armour is literally tested by shooting at it, and it isn't designed to shatter like that. It's measured on energy absorption to failure. Modern armouring concept is layering to dissipate energy when hit, not just stopping the projectile cold.
    "Harder" measured hy resistance to penetration in a scale of (applied load / area) penetrates by X, then convert to a number. "Tougher" is energy absorbed. Look up video of a Charpy impact test.
    At Algoma we sent 4x3ft plate peices to a US army lab. They set it up on a firing range, shot .50cal at it, and measured how much energy the plate absorbed when the bullet hit and went through. The samples we got back had neat little holes in them.
    Some of the thicker plates will stop the bullet but still throw a chunk off the back of the plate. That is called spalling. Depending on the armour grade that may be allowed.
    If you are doing a shooting range for your .22 or .305, you can get away with ar500 for backstops if you don't shoot from point blank.
    Humvees use something different for their gunshields and sideplates. MIL 46100J i think is what the gunshield on a 50cal top turret gunner has.
    Single plate gunshield. Good for small arms but probably not much help against a 50cal across the street or a high velocity sniper round. Small bullet with higher muzzle velocity is equal to larger bullet with slower muzzle velocity. Energy is the key factor you are looking at. Joules or newtons or ergs.
    Modern tank armor is not just about the plates, it's layers of different stuff.

    • @naponroy
      @naponroy Рік тому +1

      the old armor? I mean the 1940s steel. AR500 might be used, but it's not really "ballistics grade" steel. Read my whole comment. We make steel for the US army, and they dont use this.

  • @vanhattfield8292
    @vanhattfield8292 Рік тому +197

    I wish the pressure gauge was displayed in each of the examples. Regardless, these are always interesting videos and the effort required to create them is appreciated.

    • @Faktor78
      @Faktor78 Рік тому

      Also it looks that the pressing cone is not the same.. A shame

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 Рік тому

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      Salam (Peace) -----------

  • @buddylee19082
    @buddylee19082 Рік тому +208

    Absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! I had no idea that modern armor plates were this hard/strong!? That was an awesome vid, thank you for sharing.

    • @scasny
      @scasny Рік тому +14

      I am a bit skeptical because T34 is known to have way too much hardened armor. Sure the projektile will not penetrate but it was prone to crack. But worst of all on shell impact it absorb all the energy transfer it to the other side creating splatter of hot almost molten sharp shrapnel scattering inside the thank. So even thou it seemingly survived direct impact without visible damage the inside situation may not be so optimistic.

    • @charlesc.9012
      @charlesc.9012 Рік тому +37

      Metallurgy and heat treatment has improved by a lot since 1930, but a t-34 is the worst example to list for WW2, the steel was of a very poor quality even by the standards of the 1940s.
      Like the other guy said, it was radically treated for hardness, which made spalling common every time it was hit by a larger shell, and it happened a lot because it was only 45mm thick. Because the armour was highly sloped, there was little space inside for 4 grown men, so there was a lot of meat for loose metal to shred into.

    • @emmw7794
      @emmw7794 Рік тому +4

      Rifle plates can stop any Small arms bullet except maybe a 50 bmg. They are strong af. I have some armor plates myself.

    • @portnuefflyer
      @portnuefflyer Рік тому +3

      It makes one wonder, how bad ass are the tool used to work that armor?!

    • @SpaceCoffee700
      @SpaceCoffee700 Рік тому +7

      ​@@portnuefflyerhonestly some of our strongest to be produced from the Industrial age so far
      They have presses that do many times more than the 350 tons of pressure in the video

  • @mynameis4718
    @mynameis4718 Рік тому +32

    WOW, just wow!!
    My husband welds with AR500, both at his previous job making oilfield trenches and at his new job making bumpers... Him and my brother in law always talked about this steel, I just never in my life figured it would be this strong!!

    • @losttownstreet3409
      @losttownstreet3409 Рік тому

      AR500 is Iron, Carbon, Manganese, Phosphorus (!), Sulfur, Silicon (ok this is not toxic), Chromium, Nickel, Molybdenum, Boron (!)
      I don't think it's very safe for handling, and simple steel should do better if you have a welding torch at hand.
      The same is with aluminum: nobody like to repair this (cars, ships, ...). Carbon is more nasty to repair.

    • @Ribulose15diphosphat
      @Ribulose15diphosphat Рік тому

      @@losttownstreet3409 Phosphorous should not be more dangerous than Sulphur. It would likly only emit P2O5, wich is no more dangerous than SO3. In no way should working with a blowtorch create white Phosphorous (that would be toxic).

  • @nvmffs
    @nvmffs Рік тому +1

    LOL! That Ball would've defeated the press itself if it had continued to compress it

  • @chikkenbonz
    @chikkenbonz Рік тому +46

    Was NOT expecting that!! Was waiting for the ball bearing to 'splode...but the armor did instead?? Fascinating!! 😁👍

  • @bryanrosensteel3331
    @bryanrosensteel3331 Рік тому +501

    Can we take a moment to appreciate he sacrificed some very valuable and rare steel with that old armor!

    • @owlsayssouth
      @owlsayssouth Рік тому +74

      Plenty of rusty tanks still around to get it. Esp the Russian stuff.

    • @bryanrosensteel3331
      @bryanrosensteel3331 Рік тому +22

      @@owlsayssouth true, but only so many that predate 1945...

    • @killgaet6253
      @killgaet6253 Рік тому +53

      ​@@bryanrosensteel3331nah bro, it's T34, there is more than enough, these things were pumped out from factories extremely fast.

    • @bryanrosensteel3331
      @bryanrosensteel3331 Рік тому +34

      @@killgaet6253 yes, but there is an entire industry around reclaiming this steel...and once it is gone, that's it, we cannot reproduce it. That's all I'm pointing out.

    • @STRYKER1467
      @STRYKER1467 Рік тому +13

      if it was kruppstahl of the Tiger Ausf. B Tiger II or something similar well that would have been painful to see but a simple T-34 thats nothing.

  • @fr3dranger
    @fr3dranger Рік тому +40

    It is astonishing to see the power released by the exploded block! Sorry about the lens. Thanks

  • @bravelyHomoSapien
    @bravelyHomoSapien 7 місяців тому

    As an unqualified plumber, writer and experienced love maker, I appreciated the countdown to the epic moment.
    I fear a soiling of the pants, both front and rear would have occurred otherwise😂

  • @mikerifraf183
    @mikerifraf183 Рік тому +219

    That was truly epic! The amount of energy released is incredible.thank you for sharing this content.

  • @Nymphibious
    @Nymphibious Рік тому +331

    One: this was the most impressive thing I have seen on your channel, and two: I am glad you're ok, this was a proper explosion

    • @dagsbouch
      @dagsbouch Рік тому +5

      Yeah here here, just wow came out of my mouth, well it was "FK" really, but did not expect that.

    • @elpatron762
      @elpatron762 Рік тому +8

      Three: he needs to rethink his choice of music, because its hot garbage

    • @robertrosenthal7264
      @robertrosenthal7264 Рік тому +1

      Not an explosion at all, but still nasty to get hit by one of those fragments.

  • @sethwaggoner6497
    @sethwaggoner6497 Рік тому +187

    That detonation of a solid piece of steel goes to show how much energy a solid object can hold! Impressive!

    • @damien9683
      @damien9683 Рік тому +5

      The difference between strong and hard metals (you'd be surprised how many people think it's the same thing)

    • @benfordrin6978
      @benfordrin6978 Рік тому +3

      Technically it's far more then you think. You maybe heard of the famous formular E=mc², it's for calculating how much energy mass contains. And for example: The mass of a person with a weight of 65kg (~143 pounds) contains the same energy as approx. 100.000 Hiroshima Bombs. No joke. Mass contains extreme amounts of Energy. We are just not yet able to "use" it properly.

    • @Patrick_Cooper
      @Patrick_Cooper Рік тому +4

      @@benfordrin6978 Well, when we do I hope its for something everyone wants. 24/365 Mc Ribs...

    • @ryanbayne1033
      @ryanbayne1033 Рік тому

      How can we not use this to generate power?

    • @benfordrin6978
      @benfordrin6978 Рік тому

      @@ryanbayne1033 We allready do with nuclear power plants or fusion power. But you maybe want to know, why we can't just put a box of meat into an oven and turn the theoretical massive energy amount it contains into pure usable energy, right?
      It's very complex to answer this, but to describe it simply: Because there are 1. Different kinds of energy (kinetic energy, heat energy,.. ) and the big problem is the actual conversion from mass to energy or energy to mass.
      The Formula E=mc² actually just tells us how much energy mass contains, if we would be able to convert it 1:1 into energy. And that's technically impossible. By convert energy, you always have a loss and often you have to spend some energy first, before getting some. Also how to catch/store the energy?
      Think of an atomic bomb: By splitting atoms, enormous amounts of energy are released, which spread explosively in fractions of a second through enormous heat and force. If we were able to capture all of this energy without wasting any of it, nuclear fission would be an incredible source of energy. But we can't do that, not yet. We have nuclear power plants that do what an atomic bomb does under controlled conditions on a very small scale. But itself poses enormous risks and dangers.
      Perhaps at some point in the distant future we will find a way to better capture, use and transmit energy from conversion.

  • @aaronsmith593
    @aaronsmith593 Рік тому +2

    Wow the newer armor is amazing, it broke smashed the hydraulic tip twice !!! 😮

  • @johntrottier1162
    @johntrottier1162 Рік тому +366

    Has anyone considered the following:
    The super cooled metal ball was placed on top of the room temperature AR500 sample. This caused the AR500 to cool rapidly at the point of contact.
    As the pressure increased, the metal under the ball continued too cool, and reached the transition temperature between ductile and brittle fracture.
    The cooled area suffered brittle fracture, which then carried through the AR500 causing it to "explode".
    The dull appearance of the fractured faces are characteristic of Brittle Fracture

    • @Ethan_FPV
      @Ethan_FPV Рік тому +50

      With that much force? It was well beyond the transition temperature and probably was hot to the touch. All that energy has to go somewhere, so before it breaks it goes to heat. Once it breaks, it rapidly converts to kinetic, creating an explosion of sorts.

    • @jeffbotelho5035
      @jeffbotelho5035 Рік тому +14

      So your saying we need to super cool our rounds and make them steel then infantry can shoot through tank armor?

    • @piuli95
      @piuli95 Рік тому +12

      @@jeffbotelho5035 Im not sure what super cooled rounds will do to the firing mechanism and barrel. :F

    • @randallsmerna384
      @randallsmerna384 Рік тому +51

      Not buying it.
      * The sphere had 20 minutes of total immersion in liquid nitrogen for the ball to fully reach temperature. This whole thing was done in less than 2 minutes.
      * The AR500 was not submerged in the liquid at all and it had much more mass than the ball.
      * Because it was a sphere there was a very little surface-to-surface contact area between the AR500 and the sphere.
      * The AR500 had full surface contact with the base below it making the mass of AR500 even more.
      * There are ungodly high temperatures being created with that kind of pressure further working against any temperature transfer.

    • @rael5469
      @rael5469 Рік тому +11

      I believe that your analysis is the best explanation. That the difference in temperature of the AR500 is what shattered it. I would have thought the frozen steel ball would have shattered first though.....like a rose dipped in liquid nitrogen.

  • @mariusbarnardo5592
    @mariusbarnardo5592 Рік тому +103

    As a bladesmith, I can tell you 52100 ball bearing steel is no joke!
    Next time you purchase a handmade knife made from 52100, you should really appreciate that knife as it's not the easiest steel to work and heat treat. (Not the most difficult either but still)
    Awesome vid and the outcome surprised me too.

    • @TENthe10th
      @TENthe10th Рік тому +3

      I'm a CNC Mechanic and I looked that steal up with its DIN-Norm and it's composition. Yep I've had to work with similar steals in the past and they've given neither me nor my tools a good time.

    • @mariusbarnardo5592
      @mariusbarnardo5592 Рік тому

      @@TENthe10th tough stuff.....

    • @mariusbarnardo5592
      @mariusbarnardo5592 Рік тому +5

      @SmearCampaignUK nope.....
      Without proper maintenance, a scary sharp knife will turn into a butter knife.

  • @protorhinocerator142
    @protorhinocerator142 Рік тому +43

    In case you're wondering, AR 500 is a type of flash bainite steel. You superheat it and then cool it quickly. This makes the metal crystalize.
    Some guy figured out how to do this in his garage. Turns regular steel into that monster we just saw.
    They make thin body armor inserts out of AR 500. They have to coat the steel with a splotchy paint that absorbs/deflects bullet fragments. The armor is so strong that bullets his the armor and splatter. These fragments can often bounce up into the wearer's chin and injure him. Soldiers get injured because the armor is too strong.

    • @ctrlaltdebug
      @ctrlaltdebug Рік тому +1

      Soldiers don't use AR500 plates because high velocity bullets punch right through it. They use the lighter ceramic plates.

    • @halvarmc671
      @halvarmc671 Рік тому +2

      And high velocity rounds eat it for lunch. Most body armor is actually ceramic.

    • @markhugo6642
      @markhugo6642 Рік тому

      Actually you tend towards an "amorphous" structure with the procedure you outline.

    • @markhugo6642
      @markhugo6642 Рік тому +3

      Ah, I looked it up. I think I can clarify your "language". IT IS NOT SUPER-HEATING IT and COOLING QUICKLY that "causes it to crystalize" into the correct crystalline form. ALL METALS (except metals made using a liquid metal spray on a spinning cooling drum, which makes AMORPHOUS STEEL, which is used for transformer lamination) are "crystalline" in nature. The procedure you outlined results in a very hard (and brittle) form of steel known as MARTENSITE. It has to be "tempered" after being formed, otherwise it will shatter, as was seen in the video, but at a much lower stress.

    • @georgepal9154
      @georgepal9154 Рік тому +1

      @@markhugo6642 yep. look up maraging steel. if you've never heard of it, to age a steel means to hold it at a temperature and lower the temperature at a specific rate over a period of time that can range from days to hours. i believe the term 'maraging' is short for 'martensic aging' and its responsible for the strongest steel alloys in the world, in all senses of the word 'strong'. but, crazy long and expensive process.

  • @AdamGaming-vf1qs
    @AdamGaming-vf1qs Рік тому

    Thank you I needed this, I am in the military and now know what to do when someone pulls up a hydraulic press and tries to penetrate me with it. Thanks for the help!

  • @nickryan3417
    @nickryan3417 Рік тому +37

    Crazy. Definitely more a test of how hard the cones were compared to steel used in military armour, but also a great example of the balance that is struck between hardness and shattering. This is why modern armour has multiple layers to diffuse the impact energy both in shattering (e.g. one component reactive armour) as well as absorption to spread and absorb the energy over a greater area.

    • @nootnewt
      @nootnewt Рік тому +2

      There's also a difference in shells, bullets, and other projectiles compared to this press. I'd wager a guess that a tank shell could defeat a lot of things shown that the press couldn't because of the energy and material difference. Typically the best way to defeat armor is to have something really dense that's moving very quickly.

    • @reesepeters893
      @reesepeters893 Рік тому

      ⁠@@nootnewtyour correct, the way to defeat armor is with speed, and density resulting in a larger force defeating the armor, which is why AP rounds are usually made out of depleted uranium and tungsten for its density. Combined with the shape of modern ammunition being like a dart allowing for more penetration as it’s more force in a smaller area

  • @bergamuncha
    @bergamuncha Рік тому +31

    Epic moment is almost an understatement. And while general destruction is often found around the 350 tonne mark, i am surprised that it wasn't the nitrogen cooled ball bearing wreaking it...

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting Рік тому +82

    Wow, that "epic moment" really was epic! I've never seen things blown off with such power in other tests. It's amazing to think the engine power that those tanks must have to be able to carry those tons of metal around.

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy Рік тому +3

      It's less the weight and more the composition of it. But yes, accurate.

    • @blake9358
      @blake9358 Рік тому

      That's nothing

    • @agentkevin9662
      @agentkevin9662 Рік тому +2

      Right?! I've seen alot of "epic moments" that left much to be desired but this I feel was an understatement!

    • @thelegendarywasdgamer9724
      @thelegendarywasdgamer9724 Рік тому

      ​@@blake9358bc u see these things daily right?

  • @guillermotorres1347
    @guillermotorres1347 Рік тому +1

    I'd like to see a colab between this guy and the slowmo guys!!! That would be insane!!!

  • @kimchiman1000
    @kimchiman1000 Рік тому +47

    That exploding plate and shrapnel actually was pretty epic! Glad your set didn't get torn up too badly.

  • @kyleheaser351boombaby
    @kyleheaser351boombaby Рік тому +67

    "Don't do this at home" yeah, as if we've all got insanely powerful hydraulic presses and plates of titanium just hanging out in our garages

  • @normtheteacher5485
    @normtheteacher5485 Рік тому +138

    That's an incredible press. Also, an incredible display of the toughness of AR500 steel. Would like to see a video on how AR500 steel is made.

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 Рік тому

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      Salam (Peace) -----------

    • @Bekker-yn3kg
      @Bekker-yn3kg Рік тому +11

      To get technical, this was a display of its strength, not toughness. Had it been tougher, it wouldn't have exploded.

    • @NikFete
      @NikFete Рік тому +9

      Это плака о двух концах, броня должна быть не только прочной но и пластичной, чего не сказать об ar500

    • @riggamawesome1
      @riggamawesome1 Рік тому +3

      Sketchy Russian comment…

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Рік тому +3

      I work with abrasion resistant steel (known as "AR steel"). It is quenched and tempered to give it hardness. A common brand name is Bisalloy. I'm not sure if it's the same thing as in the video.
      We have recently had issues with the steel plates failing violently while being bent. They're not as brittle as harder products such as cast iron or ceramics, but they're a lot less ductile than mild steel. So as in the video, if a 500-hardness steel (usually measured on the Brinell scale) is deformed too much it will fracture and fail catastrophically.

  • @allendalewilliams5762
    @allendalewilliams5762 10 місяців тому

    Dude, I am beyond impressed.I am a fully trained union Millwright who has studied metal my whole life of 61 years, and I had no idea that would happen, the liquified gas made the steel that hard?

  • @Sgt_Bill_T_Co
    @Sgt_Bill_T_Co Рік тому +37

    "Don't try this at home!" Okay I'll leave the grape press to grapes and the freezer for food!

    • @barriewright2857
      @barriewright2857 Рік тому +5

      😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍🏿.

  • @frankboyer1490
    @frankboyer1490 Рік тому +179

    I love how he still hasn't managed a barrier setup robust enough to keep his gear from getting damaged lol

    • @muddrox887
      @muddrox887 Рік тому +21

      Imagine setting up a wood barrier and thinking it'll be enough...

    • @trentwaterman7049
      @trentwaterman7049 Рік тому +5

      get a bit of gratitude pal

    • @andrewsmodyt6018
      @andrewsmodyt6018 Рік тому +11

      dude shits moving like 400 mph and weighs like 4 pounds. make a wall that can survive that 20 times

    • @danbuckley6584
      @danbuckley6584 Рік тому +5

      If nobody got hurt it did it's job. The safety shit is for people, you can put the camera wherever you want if the content is good like this you just go buy another lense

    • @platypusbiscuit
      @platypusbiscuit 11 місяців тому +2

      He clearly need a new barrier made of AR500

  • @shizuoheiw
    @shizuoheiw Рік тому +83

    This is a great demonstration of armor spalling, tanks usually have an internal layer of softer material, as you can is in the first test each layer would spliter off and throw shards when each plate broke, in reality that happens on the inside of a tank even when a round does not penetrate and those shard themselves can be deadly

    • @plektosgaming
      @plektosgaming Рік тому +3

      Yep. Many rounds take this into account as well and prefer dumping energy versus penetration specifically to cause as much spalling as possible. Best case scenario, you take out the crew, worst, something inside is probably bent or broken, rendering the take much less functional.

    • @bladeoflucatiel
      @bladeoflucatiel Рік тому

      "WW1 splatter mask"

    • @poiuyttyuiop9700
      @poiuyttyuiop9700 Рік тому +6

      @@plektosgamingthat’s the whole philosophy behind high explosive rounds and more specifically the brits’ squash head rounds. Kills a tank without ever making a hole

    • @chrissyclark7836
      @chrissyclark7836 Рік тому +6

      ​@@poiuyttyuiop9700and the same reason the brits developed their secret composite process.
      Half the armor, twice the effectiveness.

    • @user-nw2si7hu3u
      @user-nw2si7hu3u Рік тому

      “Shards”😂😂😂

  • @BrokenMedic
    @BrokenMedic 8 місяців тому

    It’s neat to see this. I watched a documentary that said war graves in the oceans are being robbed of their steel because steel made today have impurities from the A-bombs where steel made prior to it does not contain such materials making its scrap value much higher. In countries that lax regulations surrounding these graves have reported to have a huge spike in body parts being found in yards where scrap is being processed. Most are in bone form but hair and others have been found depending on where in the wreckage they were located.

  • @Devin.Kurant
    @Devin.Kurant Рік тому +26

    I couldn't imagine taking collateral damage from that AR500 block. What a total blow out!

  • @coltonnorem4557
    @coltonnorem4557 Рік тому +70

    I’m sure the creator knows this but if you ever work with titanium be extremely careful. Titanium really likes to catch fire when it’s small enough and it’s almost impossible to put out.

    • @ludwigvonn9889
      @ludwigvonn9889 Рік тому +8

      Yo that thing looked like a thermite explosion, crazy

  • @CueDriver
    @CueDriver Рік тому +30

    Time to invest into ballistic safety shields. That was very impressive to see.

  • @CharlieMacklin1
    @CharlieMacklin1 10 місяців тому

    Awesome work. That wafer board safety barricade didn't stand a chance 😂 maybe later plywood with steel sheet

  • @k1ng5urfer
    @k1ng5urfer Рік тому +13

    Man yeah that was not what I was expecting with the supercooled AR steel ball!!! But after I realized it was sitting in the well of the punched block from the previous run it makes perfect sense. Brilliant stuff.

  • @DanakarEndeel
    @DanakarEndeel Рік тому +67

    Very impressive to see how armor plating has come along in such a relatively short period of time. 🙂

    • @natetaylor9002
      @natetaylor9002 Рік тому +3

      His 'T-34' armor was mild steel...it wasn't hardened worth crap! Of course AR500 is going to look amazing in comparison.

    • @aarondohlen
      @aarondohlen Рік тому +2

      If it is really the steel used on t-34s u can’t really compare them. T-34s we’re build as cheap as possible so they could build more of them and if you think about it, a tank is not a body armor. For a body armor it’s good, when it absorbs so much energy on impact, that it breaks. On a tank on the other hand, wouldn’t it be better if the armor plate wouldn’t shatter into thousand pieces but instead just receive a hole, which is cheaply repaired and then a new crew gets put in the tank?

    • @teebob21
      @teebob21 Рік тому +6

      @@natetaylor9002 For most of the war, the T-34's armor WAS rolled mild steel or cast steel, relying on angling instead of thickness. Only the turret fronts and sides had armor thicker than 50mm. The armor was not case-hardened until the rollout of the revised T-34-85 model in 1944-45.

    • @teebob21
      @teebob21 Рік тому +1

      @@aarondohlen The problem with a hole in the tank is that the AP round detonates inside the tank, killing the crew and disabling the vehicle. WW2 wasn't War Thunder; they couldn't just respawn in a new machine at base.

    • @aarondohlen
      @aarondohlen Рік тому

      @@teebob21 I know dude. Just thought it is maybe cheaper to repair a hole, than a brittle, shattered tank side or front. I know that the modules and equipment inside are destroyed and the crew is dead (can also happen on a hardened plate due to overpressure, right?). Still the lesser problem from a economical logistical „war“ perspective, isn‘t it? Also building an entirely new tank is super expensive and uses a lot of ressources that could be saved for other armor or weapons

  • @Rationalific
    @Rationalific Рік тому +27

    That really gives a new meaning to "just the tip" and "don't bust my balls". The ball wasn't busted, but it seems everything else was. Pretty amazing, and I like that it was pure action from minute one, rather than 15 minutes of hyping something up just to have a longer video. Awesome stuff!

  • @jerry_f1298
    @jerry_f1298 Рік тому

    amazing!!!!!!!! the lat one breaks the armor like a bomb!!!! so much energy liberated!!!!

  • @akshit1415
    @akshit1415 Рік тому +4

    "Mom can we watch oppenheimer?"
    "No we have oppenheimer at home"
    Oppenheimer at home: 6:09

  • @RiinaFjodorova
    @RiinaFjodorova Рік тому +62

    Wow This definitely makes me want to go grab my carrier & give my ar500 plates a hug. Despite the weight being a hassle to see the amount of energy they can handle whether it is a press or a bullet is rather impressive & comforting.

    • @AixlaachenPax1801
      @AixlaachenPax1801 Рік тому +5

      The weight of ar500 plates will kill you by making you an easy slow target, try titanium that will save you in most situations and is as light as a feather so you will keep a good running pace

    • @pyme495
      @pyme495 Рік тому +3

      My carrier held ceramic plates, not AR500. A fraction of the weight.

    • @robertsims3759
      @robertsims3759 Рік тому +5

      ​​@@AixlaachenPax1801Not if you keep in shape. I carried a M249 over in Fallujah, Iraq w/ 6 to 800 rounds on me along with my plate carrier. I can still pull that off. Watch what you eat and work out.

    • @mtnbike4522
      @mtnbike4522 Рік тому

      Ditch the ar500 plates and get ceramics unless you want spall ripping your face off.

    • @AixlaachenPax1801
      @AixlaachenPax1801 Рік тому +4

      @@robertsims3759 Lmao it's clear you never carried something heavy in a backpack for hours on, let alone days, and i'm not american so my weight is not a problem

  • @mrradio2187
    @mrradio2187 Рік тому +68

    Not what I was expecting. Truly shocking to say the least. Thank you, I'm sorry for the loss of your camera, science can be brutal sometimes.

    • @jonrodrigues1
      @jonrodrigues1 Рік тому

      😂
      Indeed!

    • @1ShopSnipe
      @1ShopSnipe Рік тому

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • @mywifesboyfriendisfire
      @mywifesboyfriendisfire Рік тому +1

      Science is never brutal, life is brutal.

    • @canlib
      @canlib Рік тому

      ​@@mywifesboyfriendisfireScience has facts, life is open to interpretation.

    • @yukuzoona6604
      @yukuzoona6604 Рік тому

      alone with that video he can probably buy 5 or more new cameras 😅

  • @tog61
    @tog61 Рік тому

    That near perfect 4 way split looked nuts in slow mo.

  • @NonContentMakerZ3
    @NonContentMakerZ3 Рік тому +134

    Good video, but I would have appreciated if we got to see the data on all of the pressures reached, to be able to compare them. Also being given the yield strength of the steel used for the cones, would have made this a superb video.

    • @jamesw71
      @jamesw71 Рік тому +7

      would also be nice to know if these were good samples or garbage and what type of titanium was used.

    • @Ipodmaillt
      @Ipodmaillt Рік тому +1

      Looks like on modern armor steel he used lead press tip, so I would count on accurate and fair results..

    • @kevinbissinger
      @kevinbissinger Рік тому

      Thank you for letting me know I don't need to watch this video. All I was interested in was the numbers

    • @pikiwiki
      @pikiwiki Рік тому +1

      it is the data which makes the video more meaningful

    • @maggiolins
      @maggiolins Рік тому

      In the video description, it is specified that the press has a capacity of 500 tons, and I believe the creator assumes that when the material being tested withstands the press, there is no need to provide additional data. Personally, I think that more data could make the final result more satisfying.

  • @zlonewolf
    @zlonewolf Рік тому +47

    6:12 That's why you make Titanic submersibles out of spherical shapes made of solid objects instead of tubes glued together with CF.

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 Рік тому

      Stockton-Rush was a Blue Peter fan in his youth. (British kids show where they made things from cardboard tubes).
      People make loudspeakers from Sonnatubes.

    • @dglass2008
      @dglass2008 Рік тому +1

      or just make an entire submarine out of ballbearings?

    • @canlib
      @canlib Рік тому

      ​@@dglass2008No, just a hollow sphere, like the Trieste down to 38,000 ft.

    • @benbreeck3363
      @benbreeck3363 Рік тому

      ​@@joefish60917:46 7:48

  • @TheMrMused
    @TheMrMused Рік тому +21

    Exactly what I expected after seeing the AR500 get damaged by the hard cone. AR500 has very little elasticity. Once damaged (which takes quite a bit, as seen!), it needs to be replaced.

    • @jfurl5900
      @jfurl5900 Рік тому +2

      Thanks , I was wondering why the difference in results . It would be good to have an explanation with the video.

  • @InDzienInTampa
    @InDzienInTampa 6 місяців тому

    RIP entire studio. That was a lot of pressure!

  • @OttoByOgraffey
    @OttoByOgraffey Рік тому +14

    Holy crap!! I was not expecting that! Anybody else squint their eyes, in anticipation?

  • @edilsonlima5985
    @edilsonlima5985 Рік тому +20

    Your job is helping the engineering around the world. Thank you.

  • @ets9000
    @ets9000 Рік тому +89

    As a machinist, I've been cutting various steel alloys for over 30 years. And I can assure everyone that A500 is very tough. Germany has some comparable alloys as well.

    • @therealikitclaw8124
      @therealikitclaw8124 Рік тому +19

      DID I HEAR YOU SAY DEUTSCHLAND??

    • @winghun
      @winghun Рік тому +8

      ​@@therealikitclaw8124He was writing in English, why would he use the German word?

    • @therealikitclaw8124
      @therealikitclaw8124 Рік тому +15

      @@winghun BECAUSE ICH SAY SO

    • @winghun
      @winghun Рік тому +2

      @@therealikitclaw8124 ABER WARUM

    • @mo-s-
      @mo-s- Рік тому +2

      ​@@winghun IN DER WISSENSCHAFT GEHT ES NICHT UM "WARUM", SINDERN UM "WARUM NICHT"!

  • @daxiaqingliubu
    @daxiaqingliubu Рік тому +1

    What a crazy hydraulic press!!! Oh, that's your channel name, comrade, what a coincidence.

  • @IRONHEAD12701
    @IRONHEAD12701 Рік тому +9

    Wow 😳, I thought the steel ball would’ve shattered after being plunged into liquid nitrogen. Instead, everything else shattered. The anvil, the camera, the walls, structural elements of your house 😂😂😂😂. Thanks for sharing the video. Best of luck 🍀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🌎⚓️

  • @megandonahue6832
    @megandonahue6832 Рік тому +7

    That was truly impressive. Both the strength of the armor! And the forces applied and released when it fractured

  • @Hughes500
    @Hughes500 Рік тому +8

    That was brilliant, thanks for posting. Is it just me or does anyone else find themselves squinting more as the pressure increases!

    • @hansoak3664
      @hansoak3664 Рік тому

      Safety squint is a thing; sometimes even while watching some videos.

  • @RNemy509
    @RNemy509 7 місяців тому

    Wow!!! The steel exploding was indeed epic

  • @emameyer
    @emameyer Рік тому +13

    just as a detail, armour on tanks is at an angle (and not perpendicular to incoming projectiles) because for the same steel plate thickness you get more armour protection. Because geometry

  • @zephsmith3499
    @zephsmith3499 Рік тому +5

    At 100x, you can see that two of the chunks had a mission and they accomplished it - taking down the 2x4's holding the camera. Dead on, both targets hit, stand toppled, good job commander AR500.

  • @forresthunt9573
    @forresthunt9573 Рік тому +6

    A wonderful example of how far metallurgy has come!

  • @1CLOOOUD
    @1CLOOOUD Рік тому +3

    Truly Impressive Test on the hardness and resistance of materials... Too bad the damage to the equipment... with such an impact force there is really a risk of leaving your skin if you don't take the necessary precautions... Being in another room and also protected...😱🔥

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 9 місяців тому

      You only need a single fullstop to separate sentences.* Those multiple fullstops serve no purpose other than making reading more difficult.*