1.) Removal of 25mm M919 round from M242 Bushmaster chain-drive bolt assembly 2.) Removal of projectile from cartridge case 3.) Removing the nylon obturating band 4.) Removing 1 of the 3 black anodized aluminum sabots (investment cast) 5.) Removing plastic nose cap 6.) Removing sabot sections 2 and 3 7.) Showing up close details of fin-stabilized M919 depleted uranium penetrator. Ballistic windscreen is aluminum, penetrator rod is D.U., tail-fin section is hardened steel alloy. Base of fin section contains magnesium tracer element.
I love how millions of years of human evolution and warfare have converged into a supersonic arrow made of a dense rock with strange properties eDIT: Some of yall taking this way too fr xD
@@GhostRider-hp3teMaybe, maybe not. 25mm Sabot rounds can’t penetrate the armor of a T-90 tank, but they can destroy its optics quickly. Blind T-90s are dead T-90s.
Projectile weight is 96 grams/ 1480 grains consisting of a DU penetrator, aluminum nose cone (to reduce aerodynamic drag) and a steel screw-on fin assembly with a 1.8 second duration tracer pellet in the back, velocity is 4544 FPS (Jesus H Christ that's fast!), max effective range is 2.5km taking 2.1 seconds to get there, propellant is Hercules HES9053 though the charge weight is unlisted, each round costs $98, and it makes just shy of 68,000 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle.
Depleted uranium is used in armor piercing ammunition, despite it's toxicity and faint radioactivity, due to a strange material property. Armor piercing ammunition has a needle nose, and this is of major importance for successfully penetrating armor. When a tungsten round hit armor, its needle nose is smashed flat in a fraction of a second and the round continues on based on sheer energy. With depleted uranium, when the round strikes armor, the needle nose is partially smashed, retaining a damaged "pointed" nose. This partial retention of the pointed nose increases armor penetration. Too bad the toxicity gives anyone exposed to the metal numerous medical issues.
I promise you it is the biggest pain in the ass you've ever laid your hands on, and it will give you cancer. I miss driving, I sure as hell don't miss gunnery.
Caution! Dropping a uranium or tungsten alloy dart will damage any flooring. In case of emergency please help yourself. Don't forget to flush the toilet.
Fun fact: I was assigned to a Bradley crew as a Driver right when the first Titanfall game dropped. I remember playing it in the MWR the night before training to drive the Bradley began. Naturally climbing into the driver's seat felt like getting into the cockpit of a Titan. Favorite core memory right there. ❤
@@norwegian_noisemaker6737 the Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility: just a building that has different morale restoring items such as TVs, pool tables, maybe a bar if you're not in a theater of operations where General Orders are in strict enforcement.
@@calyxman I did. One of my favorite moments in life was experiencing TF2's story for the first time, and I wish I could travel back to that moment the same way Cooper did.
for those who don't know, the machine in the background is the bolt, bolt carrier, and chain drive assembly of an M242 gun weapon system. Chain driven refers to the means the system operates, not the way the ammo is linked. The long piece of metal running parallel to the bolt is the ejector. yes, the m242 ejects out the front of the gun like an fn2000.
for anyone curious, no when shot these don't struggle to release from the sabot, the huge g force and pressure will rip it away, you can find slow motion footage of bigger tank rounds doing it.
@@lordtomlluckrahthegreat9014 Its plastic(the rest of the sabot is aluminum). I'd assume it literally melts. Or perhaps the air resistance on it is so high that the tip pushes through it. Or a combination of both, heat making it soft and the tip pushing through it.
@@jort93z I don't know much about ammo like this, but melting that plastic would take considerable amount of energy, which has to come from the projectile. I wonder why they wouldn't want to save that velocity.
@@sebimoe I am not sure why they put the cap on there, i presume to protect the tip when the ammo is moved(transport or in the action) Depends what plastic it is, it's probably intetionally some weak stuff.
As a machinist, each one of your videos blows my mind when i consider the time and resources that go into weapons manufacture. Thinking of the cost of this stuff, that is fired and used up in a second 🤯
Completely agree. I think it would be a little demoralizing knowing everything you're working hard on everyday is going to get blown up. Well, not ALL of it............the millions of items within our warehouse is a true testament to the abilities of American machinists........past & present!!
What's really sad is that you Americans just dont give a shit about other people in other countries as your use of depleted uranium in warfare is 1. Likely a war crime and 2. Causes birth defects in those that just get wounded or maimed
Hi could you please share about your (qualification)education and degree. Just asking genuinely as I have too interest in working for big companies like these.@@olivertaveras9896
I think of all of the depleted uranium slugs from range cleanup I sent to Kuwait from Afghanistan. No warning on spent uranium used to palletize , net and send on its way.
@@lucascarter1641I would imagine this is strictly cleaning up ranges. I find it almost impossible to believe that we would be cleaning up all the battlefields. Maybe some non-profit after the fact, but not active servicemen cleaning up after themselves on battlefields.
They're not as spicy as you would think and really don't pose much of a danger. Putting it back in the ground where it came from. I mean don't get me wrong..... It's not great or anything. Large enough quantity in the same area could enter the water table ect.....But you'd be amazed how common it is for there to be much spicier sources that occur naturally in the ground everywhere. Not to mention all the other radiation people are exposed to everyday.
@@hullinstruments the radiation isn't the issue, its the fact that uranium is a much more potent heavy metal toxin and chemical carcinogen than lead you don't want to inhale it or get it on your skin which is why the guy in the video wears gloves the radiation is negligible
@@ArpanDe This is a reference to a video game called Cruelty Squad. It features a shotgun which shots (smaller) depleted uranium darts instead of buckshot, among many other dubiously ethical weapons.
If these were not used in Afghanistan, what was ? Those 120 mm kinetic energy rounds, from an Abrams M1A2 have sabots M829, around that cradle a dart that's a little larger than this. There's something like 11.80 MJs of energy upon impact.
@NINacide how the hell does that make sense? Joining the military doesn't allow you to keep this shit legally. Now stealing it to keep or sell it on the gray market is certainly something you can do tho...
@@industrialintensity2101 yup, I found a live 30mm at an antique store when traveling. HE head and all. Just sitting there labeled as inert on the sales tag. A lot of the printing on the cartridge itself had been clearly removed . I almost bought it but would have had no way to get it home (also no DD permit that i wanted to apply for just to own a cartridge I could never fire,lol) told the clerk, who was a part owner and she called for police to come retrieve it. I always wondered how it ended up there, and how nobody else bought it or even questioned it, haha.
M3 Bradley Gunner here, I work for United States infantry board testing everything on that vehicle. On alert overseas before the sandbox wars I had to grab the bolt (that's the Harley-Davidson chain thing you see in the picture) and my weapons from the armory. I end up getting cancer. I cleared misfire weapons all the time and I never took apart a 25mm. Heads up those rubber gloves won't actually protect you from "Real depleted uranium" and radiation.
@@MatthewDannevik depleted uranium is a bit more radioactive than a banana and it doesn’t make a deadly cloud for thousands of years more like a few minutes if that
fun fact about depleted uranium, not really dangerous in terms of radioactivity, but when used as a projectile, when it comes into contact with different kinds of surfaces, it self-sharpens, and can penetrate even more material at range. It's the closest thing we have to a cost-efficient railgun.
We are still infantile, not evolved. Little more than 100 years ago, horse and buggy was still the main transport, 200 years ago industrial evolution. Elon's blasting into space using cooking gas (methane).
I knew the sabot was meant to separate from the penetrator, but I still figured that it would take a lot of force to rip them apart. This guy did just with his fingers 😮
@@exceptionalanimations1508Why does it have that plastic looking tip? I find that part odd. Always thought the sabot case was around it with the actual penetrator showing. Then the sabot comes off the sides after leaving the barrel. Does that tip stay on till impact or something?
@@dianapennepacker6854 No the tip is just to help it leave the barrel, if there was no discarding part then the projectile would tumble in the barrel after being fired. But the tip causes the gas to push the whole projectile out then once it's out of the barrel the plastic part falls off
Yup, a lot of small caliber US guns use an M-16 derived carrier group simply because it's tried and tested. This is the case on a lot of systems below around the 30mm mark.
While both tungsten and depleted uranium are very dense metals, the key difference lies in the fact that depleted uranium is radioactive and pyrophoric (ignites easily upon impact), making it significantly more effective for armor-piercing ammunition, while tungsten is generally considered safer but less penetrative due to its lower heat generation on impact; however, tungsten is often used in situations where radiation concerns are a major factor, like in certain armor compositions where it is mixed with other materials to mitigate the radioactive properties of depleted uranium
Front armor no, side armor yes. At close enough ranges these can absolutely pen T90 side armor. It's a moot point anyway. Russia barely has any T90s to begin with. Fewer now.
@@oovekos2546и вообще в России мы только бухаем, на балалайке играем и медведей выгуливаем. 😂 И танков нет и самолёты все старые и не летают. А ракеты вообще из микроволновок и стиралок китайских делают 😂😂😂😂
Served the airborne infantry 15 years ago. I remember we had a training excercise together with mechanised infantry and one day they gave us an insight of their Marder 1A5 IFVs in the maintenance section. I always thought these 20mm autocannons were some ultra complex machines with some highly advanced, space magic bolt inside but then was somehow surprised that they just look like a giant rifle inside with ordinary bolt, bolt carrier, firing pin and all the stuff you´ll find in an assault rifle....
Unless I am mistaken, most of the damage inside the tank is from fragments spalled from the inside face of the armour, not the actual penetrator, right?
Yea to some degree unless this actually does pen because it becomes pyrophorric and burns extremely hot so it will tend to light anything inside on fire in addition all the lovely fragments.
yes, but they need to be fast and very strong soo they can penetrate tanks with armor equivillent to nearly a meter of steel, if theyre too brittle they shatter or cant penetrate well on angled parts of armor
@@kyizelmaI think you're a bit off with how big tank armor is. It's usually a few inches or so. When you get into fancier armor, it will be comparable to thicker armor while not actually being that thick. Having 3 feet of steel would be impossibly heavy for a tank.
The only way you could penetrate a tank with this is through the side armor, close range, otherwise your clowncar will be in the space as soon as they spot you.
this round is for tanks and lightly armored vehicles. but if u got hit by one. either a clean through and through, or your organs get liquified. or you get a baseball sized hole through your chest.
@@CorpseStarchEnjoyer The entire body of that dart is DU. Being in close proximity to DU is an issue due to radiation, it's mostly a risk due to particle inhalation.
I really want to know how effective is the Behind-Armor-Effect of the M919. DU is nice and pyrophoric, but the penetrator is rather small. Getting past the armor is one thing, doing things within is another. Here's hoping you get your hands on a Frangible Armor Piercing Round.
Look at Desert Storm, Bradley's took out more T72s than Abrams. Once you penetrate the hull that ammocarousel is going to make the turret do a special space mission
@@NexusReload you do know bradleys have ATGMS, this kind of ammo would be very hard to kill a tank with even impossible, you would have to shoot it from the side or back
Bradley is a very good IFV. But the Swedish CV-90 is much better. When I didn’t know about it, I thought that Bradley was the most protected IFV and one of the most deadly. But no. The CV-90 is much more armored and has a 40mm cannon that can hit any target, unlike 25-30mm cannons. The most advanced IFV.
2, but OK. You have the DU rod, which includes the fins. And you have a steel/aluminum ballistic cap. The Sabot and Casings arent a part of the projectile
I can imagine the weight of that DU projectile. I was a CIWS tech back in the 90s. I was once repairing the chuting of my mount after a hangfire, and found a loose DU projectile from a 20mm round. It was 11mm sub caliber 1090 grains.
Was the dark created with depleted uranium because it would actually penetrate something better? Or was it intended to give radiation poisoning to anyone unlucky to come into contact with any type of weapon firing these type of darts?
It's very nearly not radioactive at all-- that's what makes it depleted It does create a large amount of highly poisonous dust though so there's that, lol
Fun fact, “gulf war syndrome” health issues have been traced back to the use of depleted uranium bullets and their small (but measurable) amount of radiation. Sure 1 bullet isn’t too much but in the military they were often around hundreds or even thousands of rounds, wherein the radiation added up.
1.) Removal of 25mm M919 round from M242 Bushmaster chain-drive bolt assembly
2.) Removal of projectile from cartridge case
3.) Removing the nylon obturating band
4.) Removing 1 of the 3 black anodized aluminum sabots (investment cast)
5.) Removing plastic nose cap
6.) Removing sabot sections 2 and 3
7.) Showing up close details of fin-stabilized M919 depleted uranium penetrator. Ballistic windscreen is aluminum, penetrator rod is D.U., tail-fin section is hardened steel alloy. Base of fin section contains magnesium tracer element.
First question is where do we get 25mm M919 APFSDS from M242 Bushmaster chain-drive
It's safe to handle these projectiles without using thicker protective gloves?
@@fightingfalcon1986Yes
Where do you get all of this!?
О. Класс.
Можно уничтожать танки Т-90 в Украине.
Молодцы европейцы и американцы!!!
After so much electronic technology, missiles, etc. we returned to the arrows
Mass times Speed equals a lot of force
Its not fancy but once you reach enough velocity its more then enough
Артиллерия определяет многое, как ни удивительно
thats beyond reductive of how complicated this is
@@theduke7539 facts.
Aren’t all guns technically just updated auto cross bolts?
Possibly one of the best home defence weapons, especially when you wanna defend your computer against an MBT
Nice reference
Cultured man
ah a man of good taste
@@fa18superhornetNow I wan..NEED to know what reference you are referring to
@@AbrantesDemetelo See How to protect your computer from an MBT, the channel is Bosnian Ape Society, he has many similar videos.
Forbidden lawn dart
the Lawn dart were already forbidden
I still have a set of lawn darts.
Forbidden golf tee
@@larrydunn7924how much
The Romans during the year 2.
Hasbro 1970ish '___'
I love how millions of years of human evolution and warfare have converged into a supersonic arrow made of a dense rock with strange properties
eDIT: Some of yall taking this way too fr xD
human warfare was always about the pointy end
Even bacteria can kill you. Size does not matter.
Anything dies if you hit it hard enough.
What is its muzzle velocity?
Metal*
So this is the spicy toothpick that Gaijin's me from across the map...
Me casually in the bradley disguised as a bush....
Me casually in the bradley disguised as a bush...
@@Drose7.3 You spell chadley wrong 😏
Correct, but when you use it, it acts like a dart or shatters on impact.
The things that goes through the entire tank no matter how much armor you have.
"Im definetly safe behind my armored vehicle's 5 inch steel plating!"
This guy:
"No you're not."
Я тебе больше скажу - эта штука прошивает современные танки в борт.
With 5” inches thick armour you are fine.
@@GhostRider-hp3te ssssh
@@GhostRider-hp3teMaybe, maybe not. 25mm Sabot rounds can’t penetrate the armor of a T-90 tank, but they can destroy its optics quickly. Blind T-90s are dead T-90s.
Projectile weight is 96 grams/ 1480 grains consisting of a DU penetrator, aluminum nose cone (to reduce aerodynamic drag) and a steel screw-on fin assembly with a 1.8 second duration tracer pellet in the back, velocity is 4544 FPS (Jesus H Christ that's fast!), max effective range is 2.5km taking 2.1 seconds to get there, propellant is Hercules HES9053 though the charge weight is unlisted, each round costs $98, and it makes just shy of 68,000 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle.
Thanks
Thank You! Ditto on the JHC!
How about JFC? Like JHC, just upgraded to have more F.
with 200-500 rounds per minute, that adds up to about 300-800 USD per second... not bad..
that description is almost a physics class, thanks 👍
For those who don’t know. Depleted uranium isn’t used for its radioactivity, it’s barely radioactive. It’s used for its hardness and density
Depleted uranium is used in armor piercing ammunition, despite it's toxicity and faint radioactivity, due to a strange material property.
Armor piercing ammunition has a needle nose, and this is of major importance for successfully penetrating armor.
When a tungsten round hit armor, its needle nose is smashed flat in a fraction of a second and the round continues on based on sheer energy.
With depleted uranium, when the round strikes armor, the needle nose is partially smashed, retaining a damaged "pointed" nose. This partial retention of the pointed nose increases armor penetration.
Too bad the toxicity gives anyone exposed to the metal numerous medical issues.
@@TheOtherSteel thanks for copying and pasting a block of text from Wikipedia that doesn’t change anything stated
@@gazzamildog6732
Thst wasn't copied and pasted. I typed it out from memory, having learned about it before the public Interenet existed.
It's not very radioactive, but the uranium dust is very toxic and long-lasting, so this doubles as a technically legal chemical weapon.
But good to breath in the dust when it hits and burns up builds strong bones 12 ways 😊
Lets talk about that bad ass bolt carrier
A chain-gun- the whole thing is a badass thing.
I promise you it is the biggest pain in the ass you've ever laid your hands on, and it will give you cancer.
I miss driving, I sure as hell don't miss gunnery.
eeh ok, what about it?
its just a frame thing.. The bolt and the locking lugs are way more interesting if you ask me
Caution! Dropping a uranium or tungsten alloy dart will damage any flooring.
In case of emergency please help yourself.
Don't forget to flush the toilet.
big ol double lugs
3000 years of warfare and we're back to blowing darts
Yup. Funny how a good idea always sticks around
"I don't know how's gona be the 3rd and 4th world war but the 5th is gona be with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein
@@Kayaz48underrated
and poisoned lands this time
Who’s Darts?
Fun fact: I was assigned to a Bradley crew as a Driver right when the first Titanfall game dropped.
I remember playing it in the MWR the night before training to drive the Bradley began. Naturally climbing into the driver's seat felt like getting into the cockpit of a Titan.
Favorite core memory right there. ❤
What is the MWR?
@@norwegian_noisemaker6737 the Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility: just a building that has different morale restoring items such as TVs, pool tables, maybe a bar if you're not in a theater of operations where General Orders are in strict enforcement.
Did you ever play the second game? Awesome story
@@ScopeOperaSam sounds awesome every military should have this
@@calyxman I did. One of my favorite moments in life was experiencing TF2's story for the first time, and I wish I could travel back to that moment the same way Cooper did.
for those who don't know, the machine in the background is the bolt, bolt carrier, and chain drive assembly of an M242 gun weapon system. Chain driven refers to the means the system operates, not the way the ammo is linked. The long piece of metal running parallel to the bolt is the ejector. yes, the m242 ejects out the front of the gun like an fn2000.
These “for those who don’t know” comments are annoying af.
Thanks for the info, interesting.
@LaSombraa then skip or scroll past as s hole
@LaSombraa for those who don't know, it's annoying when people say informative comments are annoying.
I'm more impressed by the track & bolt than the rest of the video.
for anyone curious, no when shot these don't struggle to release from the sabot, the huge g force and pressure will rip it away, you can find slow motion footage of bigger tank rounds doing it.
I'm more concerned about the nose cap. It looks to be made out of a single solid piece.
@@lordtomlluckrahthegreat9014 Its plastic(the rest of the sabot is aluminum). I'd assume it literally melts. Or perhaps the air resistance on it is so high that the tip pushes through it. Or a combination of both, heat making it soft and the tip pushing through it.
@@jort93z I don't know much about ammo like this, but melting that plastic would take considerable amount of energy, which has to come from the projectile. I wonder why they wouldn't want to save that velocity.
@@sebimoe I am not sure why they put the cap on there, i presume to protect the tip when the ammo is moved(transport or in the action)
Depends what plastic it is, it's probably intetionally some weak stuff.
if im not mistaken the cap isnt on when fired, more of a transportation thing. m1 sabots have an exposed point
As a machinist, each one of your videos blows my mind when i consider the time and resources that go into weapons manufacture. Thinking of the cost of this stuff, that is fired and used up in a second 🤯
Completely agree. I think it would be a little demoralizing knowing everything you're working hard on everyday is going to get blown up. Well, not ALL of it............the millions of items within our warehouse is a true testament to the abilities of American machinists........past & present!!
Same bro. Used to make parts for Lockheed, Grumman n em. Like dam. These are gna be used to blow some shit up in a foreign land.
Orders uber eats*
What's really sad is that you Americans just dont give a shit about other people in other countries as your use of depleted uranium in warfare is 1. Likely a war crime and 2. Causes birth defects in those that just get wounded or maimed
Lol, then you might as well not buy/make anything at all because it will break over time:)
Hi could you please share about your (qualification)education and degree. Just asking genuinely as I have too interest in working for big companies like these.@@olivertaveras9896
"it's sure is nice driving this T-90M main battle tank as a Russian crewman"
_"hi Squidward"_
The main target of these shells are civilians as shown by casualties demographics in previous US wars.
@@RyH-yx4ys source?
a single one these thing's cost can buy you more 7.62s so why would they use that? bot.
It’s elegantly simple, yet really impressive tech at the same time
It's the perfect AP shell. There isn't a safe place to hide from this thing if it's a high calliber
Yep through a tank like butter. These are amazing @ivank1029
And radio active.
И очень дорогой😂😊
the tech itself is primitive, its the effectiveness which is the only impressive thing about them
That little dart looks more scary than the full size round with sabot and casing does..
I think of all of the depleted uranium slugs from range cleanup I sent to Kuwait from Afghanistan. No warning on spent uranium used to palletize , net and send on its way.
Oh wow, they're was actually an effort to clean them up? No sarcasm, genuinely curious
@@lucascarter1641I would imagine this is strictly cleaning up ranges. I find it almost impossible to believe that we would be cleaning up all the battlefields. Maybe some non-profit after the fact, but not active servicemen cleaning up after themselves on battlefields.
They're not as spicy as you would think and really don't pose much of a danger. Putting it back in the ground where it came from.
I mean don't get me wrong..... It's not great or anything. Large enough quantity in the same area could enter the water table ect.....But you'd be amazed how common it is for there to be much spicier sources that occur naturally in the ground everywhere. Not to mention all the other radiation people are exposed to everyday.
With stuff like this.... As long as you don't sleep with it in the drawer next to the bed every night..... You're ok
@@hullinstruments the radiation isn't the issue, its the fact that uranium is a much more potent heavy metal toxin and chemical carcinogen than lead
you don't want to inhale it or get it on your skin which is why the guy in the video wears gloves
the radiation is negligible
True CEO mindset
What?
oh hell no
@@ArpanDe This is a reference to a video game called Cruelty Squad. It features a shotgun which shots (smaller) depleted uranium darts instead of buckshot, among many other dubiously ethical weapons.
The unobtainium round! APFSDS-T; we never shot it in Afghan. Used HEI-T & TP-T. Awesome M242 is an awesome weapon system.
Ah yes, the round you fire in your neighbor's yard, but never your own.
Nothin in that region that would require this anytime especially with total air superiority
If these were not used in Afghanistan, what was ? Those 120 mm kinetic energy rounds, from an Abrams M1A2 have sabots M829, around that cradle a dart that's a little larger than this. There's something like 11.80 MJs of energy upon impact.
@@johnpeek827 what was there that needed DU rounds besides the mountains themselves
@@daflea66 LOL, I suppose that's true. I wasn't aware that the Afghans didn't have some T-72s or T-64s.
A pen that looks like an apfsds dart would be a good idea
not that hard to machine either. engraved: the spiciest lawn dart.
Not out of DU. You would end up with hand cancer and an extra pinky finger.
@@joedirt0311 😂
My question is where the hell you get these things? Crazy cool stuff
Join the army
Mostly grow on farms
Sometimes antique stores. I’ve found some ammunition there not legal to the public.
@NINacide how the hell does that make sense? Joining the military doesn't allow you to keep this shit legally. Now stealing it to keep or sell it on the gray market is certainly something you can do tho...
@@industrialintensity2101 yup, I found a live 30mm at an antique store when traveling. HE head and all. Just sitting there labeled as inert on the sales tag. A lot of the printing on the cartridge itself had been clearly removed . I almost bought it but would have had no way to get it home (also no DD permit that i wanted to apply for just to own a cartridge I could never fire,lol) told the clerk, who was a part owner and she called for police to come retrieve it.
I always wondered how it ended up there, and how nobody else bought it or even questioned it, haha.
M3 Bradley Gunner here,
I work for United States infantry board testing everything on that vehicle. On alert overseas before the sandbox wars I had to grab the bolt (that's the Harley-Davidson chain thing you see in the picture) and my weapons from the armory. I end up getting cancer. I cleared misfire weapons all the time and I never took apart a 25mm.
Heads up those rubber gloves won't actually protect you from "Real depleted uranium" and radiation.
They kept the bolt in the armory? Thats a little much.
I love the way ammo comes with disassembly instructions.
The genius behind this penetrer is it doesn't mushroom like a bullet. It fractures off and remains sharp. And gets very very hot.
Sharpens as it pierces the armor.
it blows up into toxic dust that doesnt go away for 1,000s of years
@@MatthewDannevik depleted uranium is a bit more radioactive than a banana and it doesn’t make a deadly cloud for thousands of years more like a few minutes if that
@@MatthewDannevik so does lead
Ww1 shells are still poisoning the land of france
And micro plostics are still decreaseing your sperm count
@@MatthewDannevikeven better!
Love how he rips it from the extractor claw.
fun fact about depleted uranium, not really dangerous in terms of radioactivity, but when used as a projectile, when it comes into contact with different kinds of surfaces, it self-sharpens, and can penetrate even more material at range. It's the closest thing we have to a cost-efficient railgun.
Thousands and thousands of years of evolution to evolve back into throwing darts at each other at high speed
Creating holes in something that isn't supposed to have holes there is a very effective tactic of neutralizing targets.
Bloons tower defense was right all along
Literally every gun is just a dart launcher of some kind. We never went back.
😂😂 that was good. Nuclear super monkey @@onefieryboi8860
We are still infantile, not evolved. Little more than 100 years ago, horse and buggy was still the main transport, 200 years ago industrial evolution. Elon's blasting into space using cooking gas (methane).
I knew the sabot was meant to separate from the penetrator, but I still figured that it would take a lot of force to rip them apart. This guy did just with his fingers 😮
I mean those parts are supposed to come apart.. tho good luck damaging the penetrator it's self
It’s just there to get it out of the barrel.
@@exceptionalanimations1508Why does it have that plastic looking tip?
I find that part odd. Always thought the sabot case was around it with the actual penetrator showing. Then the sabot comes off the sides after leaving the barrel.
Does that tip stay on till impact or something?
@@dianapennepacker6854 No the tip is just to help it leave the barrel, if there was no discarding part then the projectile would tumble in the barrel after being fired. But the tip causes the gas to push the whole projectile out then once it's out of the barrel the plastic part falls off
@@dianapennepacker6854 I don't know exactly but I assume the plastic cap would melt away from the high speed after leaving the barrel
can you give us a close up on the mechanism of the chained bolt/bolt carrier. It looks interesting!
We have a video that we did that shows exactly what you were asking for
Track and Bolt Assembly
My dumbass got stoned and thought I was watching someone play with legos 😅
...😍.... How cute , man !! A tiny baby anti-tank ammo.... ❤Adorable !
Probably a 100+ mm penetration in close range
Teeny tiny but hits like a truck
Killing baby tanks is just plain mean...
Ask the T90m what it feels like when a 25mm bushranger lights up your arse.
>Long sip from a white can of Monster Ultra
>”aaaaaahhhhh”
>”Yeup. Sometimes the old ways ‘re the best ways.”
As an LAV crewman i am all too familiar with the guts of that gun 😮💨
I empathize with your struggle. 😑
If some people are wondering, it is more than half denser than lead, which gives it greater speed and inertia. This leads to greater penetration.
Seeing the bolt brings back memories
Same shit :D had a toich on 30mm
Dude. Keep it up you're blowing my mind away piece by piece
I just cant get over the fact that Bolt Carrier Group looks exactly like an enlarged AR15 BCG
Rotating, locking lugs and all.
Yup, a lot of small caliber US guns use an M-16 derived carrier group simply because it's tried and tested. This is the case on a lot of systems below around the 30mm mark.
While both tungsten and depleted uranium are very dense metals, the key difference lies in the fact that depleted uranium is radioactive and pyrophoric (ignites easily upon impact), making it significantly more effective for armor-piercing ammunition, while tungsten is generally considered safer but less penetrative due to its lower heat generation on impact; however, tungsten is often used in situations where radiation concerns are a major factor, like in certain armor compositions where it is mixed with other materials to mitigate the radioactive properties of depleted uranium
T-90M is shivering rn
Tfw the T90 was only disabled, crew survived & wreckage was recovered. + Bradley's KD in Ukraine, against a real military? Still negative. 😛😛
Both bradleys ran out of ammo before they could penetrate the T90. T90s not shivering. They 🗿
@@skyhisurvivor4724”the wreckage was recovered” is a strange way of saying FPV drones finished off the tank in publicly available footage
I have video there are around 30 to 40 destroyed bradleys in tank graveyard
Also there is new video where T-90M destroyed bradley with ATGM at 4800 meters
So this is what the APFSDS on the Bradley 25mm looks like
I mean, that is the video title after all... Lol
Seeing the internals is awesome!
That shit took down a T-90M.
"Who are you going to shoot"
"Yes"
That bolt looks familiar;) Thanks Eugene Stoner.
T-90M thinks he real tough till the Chadley loaded up with darts flanks and penetrates its side armor xD
this is not penetrating the t90m lol what are you on buddy
Bradley never penetrated T-90M lol
It only damaged optics and smoke launcher
Front armor no, side armor yes. At close enough ranges these can absolutely pen T90 side armor.
It's a moot point anyway. Russia barely has any T90s to begin with. Fewer now.
@@thatcow86 и ракет осталось на 2-3 дня, правда???
@@oovekos2546и вообще в России мы только бухаем, на балалайке играем и медведей выгуливаем. 😂
И танков нет и самолёты все старые и не летают. А ракеты вообще из микроволновок и стиралок китайских делают 😂😂😂😂
This round is really second to none…
The British like to throw these things at targets on the wall in pubs, seen it with my own eyes
I seen't it!
Without the sabots I presume 😂
Just remember the vaporized metals are very dangerous
In your lungs dangerous.
@@NCPapa and anywhere else inside your body
It is toxic as many heavy metals
Also dangerous to spread over the soil and groundwater. Depleted uranium ought to banned because it's also a chemical weapon
@@NCPapa and in your childrens water supply for 100,000 years plus
Finally an actual chain gun. Not just belt fed, but actual chain gun
They’ve been around since at least the 80’s.
@@Michael-en7of and classified weapons and not published mechanically in detail
Have you ever read the Janes books? Chainguns aren't classified, and never have been as far as I can tell.
Hughes Chain gun developed and sold as early as 1976.
@@korbetthein3072 I have 2. Infantry 1991 and artillery 1993
Served the airborne infantry 15 years ago. I remember we had a training excercise together with mechanised infantry and one day they gave us an insight of their Marder 1A5 IFVs in the maintenance section. I always thought these 20mm autocannons were some ultra complex machines with some highly advanced, space magic bolt inside but then was somehow surprised that they just look like a giant rifle inside with ordinary bolt, bolt carrier, firing pin and all the stuff you´ll find in an assault rifle....
дротики со временем не меняются, меняются способы их доставки к цели)
On my team.
Ah yes. The tank plug.
Exactly what I was thinking lol
Thats so cool. This content is badass.
Thank you.........A LOT more to come!
Would have been cool to have a Geiger counter and a scale to weigh it in the vid. Just to provide more context to how unbelievably dense DU is
Unless I am mistaken, most of the damage inside the tank is from fragments spalled from the inside face of the armour, not the actual penetrator, right?
Yea to some degree unless this actually does pen because it becomes pyrophorric and burns extremely hot so it will tend to light anything inside on fire in addition all the lovely fragments.
yes, but they need to be fast and very strong soo they can penetrate tanks with armor equivillent to nearly a meter of steel, if theyre too brittle they shatter or cant penetrate well on angled parts of armor
@@kyizelma A meter of steel?
@@kyizelmaI think you're a bit off with how big tank armor is. It's usually a few inches or so. When you get into fancier armor, it will be comparable to thicker armor while not actually being that thick. Having 3 feet of steel would be impossibly heavy for a tank.
@@Mr.Fabrication007 i said eqivuillent to, since modern tanks have new types of meterials
The forbidden plug
It never actually occurred to me until now that a chain gun actually uses a chain.
Holy shit i bet that thing is cooking when it sheds
Who would win?
Tank?
Or
Spicy lawn dart?
The only way you could penetrate a tank with this is through the side armor, close range, otherwise your clowncar will be in the space as soon as they spot you.
@@ewaldvonkleist2438 so the only way to penetrate a tank 99% of the time? I couldn’t imagine.
yea M919 can definitely not penetrate an MBT anywhere. I don't know who told you that but its incredibly wrong.
@@ewaldvonkleist2438
Tank
I couldn't imagine getting hit by that work of art
its for tanks and lightly armored vehicles but could fare well against infantry
@@kyizelmaUsing them against infantry is a waste, thats why HE rounds exist
this round is for tanks and lightly armored vehicles. but if u got hit by one. either a clean through and through, or your organs get liquified. or you get a baseball sized hole through your chest.
It's fascinating how we evolved from muskets to Sabot Darts and other modern weapons.
Из стрелки сделать пробойник, пойдет ! 😊
Look at the very tip of the projectile, it looks like it's a tungsten, uranium's a softer metal but much denser it carries more energy
The tip of the projectile is an aluminum windscreen
@@InertOrdnanceso what's the uranium part
@@Iron_SoilI think there's none, uranium is too dangerous to keep around
@@CorpseStarchEnjoyer The entire body of that dart is DU. Being in close proximity to DU is an issue due to radiation, it's mostly a risk due to particle inhalation.
@@CorpseStarchEnjoyer much large 120mm sabot use depleted uranium not normal uranium cuz it would kill the crew
Really advanced version of throwing rocks at each other
That's how war works
wow such a great short, really educational the way they told ya absolutely nothing about it
Just a visual teardown.
I really want to know how effective is the Behind-Armor-Effect of the M919. DU is nice and pyrophoric, but the penetrator is rather small. Getting past the armor is one thing, doing things within is another. Here's hoping you get your hands on a Frangible Armor Piercing Round.
Look at Desert Storm, Bradley's took out more T72s than Abrams. Once you penetrate the hull that ammocarousel is going to make the turret do a special space mission
T-72s have been putting more Russians in space than the Soyuz program. Ukraine doesn't really have tanks so I would say it's effective.
@@NexusReload you do know bradleys have ATGMS, this kind of ammo would be very hard to kill a tank with even impossible, you would have to shoot it from the side or back
It fires $200 custom-tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute. It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.
after a quick google search, the M242 bushmaster's fire rate is only 200 rounds per minute. not 10,000.
@@jaredhernon1925 The original quote is talking about a different weapon, which admittedly also does not fire at 10,000 rounds per minute 🤣
How much for 1?
$150
Man, its been almost 25 years since ive seen a bolt from a bushmaster
Bradley is a very good IFV.
But the Swedish CV-90 is much better. When I didn’t know about it, I thought that Bradley was the most protected IFV and one of the most deadly. But no.
The CV-90 is much more armored and has a 40mm cannon that can hit any target, unlike 25-30mm cannons.
The most advanced IFV.
Once upon a time not long ago, you could buy depleted uranium from airplane salvage yards. It was used as ballast.
I see 3 different types of metals in the proyectile alone, 4 counting on the aluminum sabots and 6 in total if add the brass and the primer.
2, but OK. You have the DU rod, which includes the fins. And you have a steel/aluminum ballistic cap. The Sabot and Casings arent a part of the projectile
"I cast NON-MAGIC MISSILE"
So a t90m got taken out by darts that size
Ukriane doesn't have depleted uranium, the t90 was destroyed by drones only damaged by Bradleys and the crew was fine
@@daftcow706disabled the tank though lol.
@@daftcow706 Well only the Challenger 2 has them but it could've just as well been tungsten rounds in some of the belts which look just the same.
no they had high explosive shells which barely scratched it but it did destroy the optics and outside systems and made the crew bail out
@@kyizelma Exactly
Friend, Hey let's go to the range this weekend!
Can't bro i gotta change the timing chain on my dart MG.
I can imagine the weight of that DU projectile. I was a CIWS tech back in the 90s. I was once repairing the chuting of my mount after a hangfire, and found a loose DU projectile from a 20mm round. It was 11mm sub caliber 1090 grains.
Literally this. If I can get this exact thing for display or discussion, I would die happy.
2000 rounds of depleted uranium! Ow yeaaah!
Was the dark created with depleted uranium because it would actually penetrate something better? Or was it intended to give radiation poisoning to anyone unlucky to come into contact with any type of weapon firing these type of darts?
Depleted uranium is dense and sharpens itself as it penetrates armor
It's very nearly not radioactive at all-- that's what makes it depleted
It does create a large amount of highly poisonous dust though so there's that, lol
Fun fact, “gulf war syndrome” health issues have been traced back to the use of depleted uranium bullets and their small (but measurable) amount of radiation. Sure 1 bullet isn’t too much but in the military they were often around hundreds or even thousands of rounds, wherein the radiation added up.
“Look at my pen Patrick “ everyone knew Patrick had the most beautiful pen in the office
this is a crowbar that breaks through everyone and everything in the UK
Damn does this bring back memories. I served on an LAV- 25 in the Marine Corps, and haven’t seen that chain gun assembly since.
Bro pulled that fucking thing off there like he had a real time action button over his head.. 💀
She needed that walk. Her heart's working overtime.
What a work of art!
My dumbass really thought it was a pen in the thumbnail
So cool how tiny the projectile is for all that energy.
Sabots the ultimate lawn darts.
Love it when technology comes full circle
This is literally the first time a short has added to my experience.
For the man that has everything.
Now I know what a bolter round fires
😮 Wow I had no idea they were made like at pretty cool
Man, I would love to own one of those. It would look rad as all hell in my bookcase.
M242: I have 25mm APFSDS
T-72 : I have 125mm APFSDS
One is an IFV and one is A Tank and yet the IFV wins against its more modern counterpart the T 90
Thats a very nice tranquilizer dart
It’s beautifully crafted