Gav & Dan are at a tank range using the latest and greatest in projectile tracking technology. Combined with the Phantom cameras, they get some absolutely surreal looking footage.
@@TheRobo I still prefer this shot. The Schlieren is cool but it's kinda cheating in a way, you can see a cough or a sneeze with it. The shockwave from the tank shell was visible without it, and that's cooler IMO.
@@davidqbs Actually exactly what I was thinking. Just before the first shot I had to pause the video and analyze his ear protection. Definitely should've had double protection with the tank!
Since finding corridor crew, I can't stop seeing how applicable all these videos can be ~~ they've even done shots on black backgrounds from every angle. I do the music and audio end of it all, but am fascinated by y'all's side
I'm also a vfx artist, love this channel but, it shows us how fake the real thinks look like... I mean the cracked glass video looks like they animate a mask without feather of texture map, the same here with the "bullet" oscillation... if we do the exact same thing, the director or the supervisor will say "sorry guy, looks fake!" I love it, it's a fun thing, same for a simple smoke rising up, there is a dark mate line around in real life, for vfx, not good hahahah
@@hallopeepz yeah i noticed too, i think its the blast wave from the gun, the front and aft wave on the shell are the supersonic waves because its going supersonic. If you look closely, you can even see some more smaller shocwaves in between the front and aft wave, those are from the shape, so the things that are sticking out (dont know what they are called) also give some shockwaves.( its best noticable with the blue sky as background)
I love Dan's reaction at 14:22 he's genuinely speechless but you can clearly see what he's thinking. "Duuude, did you see that? That thing went off course".
A few months ago: Smarter Every Day did an analysis of civil war era cannon shockwaves, filmed at 10-30k fps. A month ago: Fullmag fires a tank round into a Land Rover Discovery, filmed at 60k fps. Today: THIS. I feel like we’re in a slow motion entertainment arms race, with these UA-cam heavyweights democratising this cutting edge camera tech for the masses.
"Thankfully, there's nothing out there." Meanwhile, on the next episode of Forgotten Weapons... "Hey guys, thanks for tuning in for another episode of Forgotten Weapons, I'm Ian McCollum and today we're taKING ENEMY FIRE! INTO THE TRENCHES LADS!"
So glad I was warned about the product placement here. Otherwise I think I may have been unduly influenced into buying a Sherman tank over its competitors! This way, I can keep my tank research neutral, looking only at the specs of each tank rather than relying on the emotional attachment this video may have produced
Imagine that one photon that came out the sun, travelled 8 minutes, came into the earths atmosphere, hit a wwII tanks' shell flying through the air, bounced off, hit a spinning mirror, went into the camera lens, and was absorbed by the sensor which was only open for about 1/57,000 of a second because of the camera's shutter
Captain America Not to mention the 100,000 years it takes that photon to make its way from the Sun’s core to the photosphere where it finally begins said 8-minute earthward journey.
@@1001digital Those are the property of the Ukrainian army technically, much to the dismay of the farmers. I heard one guy was rather miffed when they came over to pick them up, he was hoping to hoard at least one of them.
My father was a tank commander in the New Zealand Division Armoured Regiment in Italy. They had the standard Shermans, with the 75-mm gun, which he said was a useful enough weapon, but the game changed when they started receiving Shermans with the Firefly conversion - the British 17-pounder anti-tank gun. They were very impressed with a gun that could destroy anything it was aimed at. When they fired the 75 mm gun, they could stand outside the tank and observe the fall of shot, but the 17-pounder gun's muzzle blast was so colossal that they had to shelter inside the turret when it fired, or be standing further away from the tank than these slo-mo guys were. If they were firing at anything less than one thousand yards away it was impossible to spot the fall of shot because they were still flinching from the muzzle blast when the shot arrived at the other end.
Also the amount of dust and propellant fumes would make it incredibly difficult to see for a few moments, albeit it would make identifying where the shot came from incredibly simple. That and the astronomical flash from the shot as it was fired, the fire from said explosion is why it's called a firefly, because of the intense flames erupting from the barrel of the 17pdr.
@@ch4z_bucks If, when you comment on the "astronomical flash" and "intense flames" from the gun, you are basing your comment on the slow-motion video of the gun firing, it is useful to recognise that, at normal speed, such as when the slow-mo guy first fired the gun, the muzzle flash was so fast it was effectively invisible. My father often spoke of the gun and its different aspects and he never once mentioned the muzzle flash as graphically as you have described it. Do you know for a fact that the "astronomical flash" was why it was called the Firefly? In fact, I wonder if these slow-mo guys were actually firing full-power ammunition because, if they were, they would standing a lot further away from the tank. Look for a UA-cam video, titled, "Was The 17 Pounder the best allied Anti-Tank Gun in WW2?" There is a clip of the gun being fired and the muzzle blast is colossal - far more powerful than in this slow-mo exercise.
@@MarsFKA it was a rumour I heard for the name "firefly" I don't remember the specific source but it was something I had heard before I'd seen this video. I'd never questioned it (mistake on my part) as it made sense and I hadn't heard an alternative.
I watched this when it first came out and have come back to re-watch it a dozen or so times since and it gets better every single time. Absolutely amazing footage. Well done Gavin and Daniel.
It's highly likely that the round got deflected because what you fired was a hollow training HE shell with no explosives, but which was not back-filled with an inert equivalent. If that was an actual HE or penetrator shell, it wouldn't even notice that the watermelons were there. They did that probably to reduce wear and strain on a unique and extremely expensive gun, since there was very little recoil.
Correct! Blue denotes a training round. It was not an HE or even a concrete slug. Usually the projectile mass of medium grade artillery is too much to notice melons. Another reason why they do not use HE is because the Department of Homeland Security does not think that any one person or small groups of persons should be handling explosives of that magnitude. Which is a shame because that would make for some amazing slomo footage. Mist that truck like the melons.
Justin Hingtgen that’s not quite how that works. Same projectile size does not at all mean same gun. The obj 268 did not have a k-20 on it. But it did indeed have a cannon that fired a 152mm projectile.
@@Your_Resident_Redleg Doh! I should've spotted it was blue! Generally means training everywhere around the world, including where I live. Surprising they didn't just fire a solid lug though, for a high end video.
Those mirror tracking shots were incredible. I realise it's just software doing its thing, but the concept of turning that mirror so quickly yet with such precision is blowing my mind. The entire thing happens in a fraction of a second and it managed to perfectly track the round. 🤯
The M4 Sherman is not anymore in production but maybe that D-20 howitzer is still on sale somewhere, they probably also have an affiliate link for it :'D
8:30 the "V" that you see are the Mach lines, that typically appear on edges of objects moving above the speed of sound. You can actually mesure the speed of the shell just by mesuring the angle of the V.
I'm not sure if the fact the angle of the "V" appears to be getting more obtuse throughout that shot is because the round is decelerating or if it's just the angle of observation changing as the camera (mirror) tracks it.
@@dkcrogue Lower the speed, wider the angle, you are right. The shell looses speed but on that short of a distance, you wouldn't really see the effect on the angle. So yes i'd say that the angle of filming is playing a big role there
Fun fact: that somebody was Teddy Roosevelt (although it was his 50-page speech which he had folded twice along with metal glasses case, not just some index cards). When the attempt occurred, he simply told the audience that he had been shot and went on to give a nearly 90-minute speech. When he finally received medical care, doctors concluded that it would be safer leaving the bullet in rather than attempting to remove it, so he ended up carrying the bullet that was imbedded in him for the rest of his life. On an unrelated note: Teddy died at the age of 60. He died in his sleep, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
The speed of sound there is about 343 meters/second = 1125 feet/sec. At 2000 to 2500 feet/sec, the shell was going about Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. This results in a significant sonic boom wave. And the light going through that wave is refracted by the different densities of the air in the different parts of the shock wave. Fun, thanks.
Not impressed with wabble and then yaw of the Sherman tank shell so I would like to compare it with a 75 mm Panzer 4 shell ! I would expect an almost perfect flight !
The sonic boom is caused by cavitation or atmosphere being pushed away and then collapse back in on itself to fill the void. Whats interesting is that the wave stayed a cheveron shape even when yawing out of control
I was 16 yrs old and deer hunting with my father. It was raining and it was almost ready to snow. The drops of rain were like a fine mist. A nice buck stepped out an I fired first followed by dad's shot. I swear it was like traced from the tip of the barrel to impact. Each drop of rain exploded as the bullet traveled through the air. It was awesome! Thought I would share cause that was 50 yrs ago.
I’ve been watching you guys on and off over the years, always liked your videos. But this? This is maybe one of THE most awesome UA-cam videos I’ve ever seen! And the still at 14:33, ridiculous!
I did not expect that result as well, but in hindsight, it makes sense The water melons are, after all, mostly water. Water is kind of good at stopping high speed objects (i believe there are videos of bullets shot into pool/barrel/something watery. And if you don't aim dead center (i.e. there is slightly less resistance on the top than on the bottom because you hit the top half of the melon), it's gonna deflect
Its because of volume. If you had a 75mm thick tin plate filled with water it would pass through the thing about firing into a pool is that the volume of water in a standard 6 foot kiddie pool would equate to passing thru 2 meters of armor. Its not that water is great at deflecting its just that 2 meters volume of any material is very hard to penetrate
No matter how much I understand pressure waves I will forever be fascinated seeing them in slow motion....It's like the most reality-breaking effect for me and the one on this round-tracing shot (the second one particularly) was insanely cool
@@krisematics6501 But still 8 times _less_ dense than steel. Hey, you know what, seeing as chobam et al. are all classified, for all we know they _are_ full of water!
@@drinkyourwater1039 800mm of steel and water is an unrealistic equivalency. Assuming you'd fill the water once on-site and not need to worry about the space requirements during transit, the limiting factor would be mass. Therefore it would be more fair to compare 800mm of water with 100mm of steel (imperfect volume vs surface area calculation but close enough) Still I'd take the steel 9 times out of 10 for a dozen others reasons but just critiquing your comparison.
@@user936 "On today's video, we'll be testing the armor-penetrating performance of a 152mm ML20 gun firing armor-piercing ammunition. For that, I've set up these meat targets, which are made of couch leather "skin" followed by pork steak "pectoral," pork ribs, oranges to simulate lung tissue with pork ribs on the back, with the new-and-improved high-tech fleece bullet stop on the back."
The one thing that I found most interesting about this is the in flight view of the projectile not flying in a perfectly flat trajectory . I never realized that a cannon round would "porpoise" that way. Awesome footage !!
Next time on slow mo guys Gav: today we are gonna detonate a nuclear bomb at 1000 frames per second Edit: i should have specified that this is just the starting speed. The second one will be a much faster frame rate
@Platypus Artist when one attempts to describe scientific principals in an effort to show their intelligence, it's generally a good idea not to use pseudo words like "cuz" nor misspell simple words such as "dense". Also, although you're technically correct, saying that "it was not watermelons that deflected it ( I'll leave out the comma you should've used at this point as I'm quoting you directly.) it was the water in the watermelons" is not exactly the intelligent, yet nuanced point I think you were attempting to make. Although that would make a great defense in court- " I didn't shoot him, I shot the water that makes up appx 60-65% of his body!" I'm pretty sure they'd call that a ridiculous premise. " they didn't shoot that truck!, They shot the steel, rubber and aluminum that the truck is made of!" " They didn't fire that artillery piece, They ignited the nitrocellulose thats contained in the shell, creating rapidly expanding gases which caused the projectile to fly downrange." " They didn't video this in slow motion. they used cameras that take many images in a very short period of time. Which was then electronically stitched together to make a full motion image." I think I made my point.
Wow. Just wow. You could see the shell warping the air! Wow. Mind blow. Anyone else a little disappointed the melon mist wasn’t pink? This is the best Slo-Mo guys video ever.
That is why angled armor Is so important Just a little angle to the armor and the shell can bounce off But if it’s flat the shell will drill the armor with all its force
@@corymcdermott5096 Actually I'm pretty sure people are referring to the imcompressibility of water which is causing the water rich melon to act like a solid object momentarily as the shell impacts. That is why if you watch the slow-mo of the round you see the nose rise and the tail strike a melon or two causing a reverse in rotation sending the tail over the nose. The rind lacks sufficient strength to do anything to the round without the water contained within.
@@noctisumbra2749 So, take a piece of the interior flesh of the melon, and a similar size piece of the rind (just the rind); drop a rock onto the flesh of the melon. Measure the results. Now, drop that same rock onto the rind. Measure the results. The rind of a watermelon is much more dense and stronger, than the water saturated flesh.
@@corymcdermott5096 Your test is not relevant to the video as the forces involved are not orders of magnitude more stronger than the tensile strength strength of materials. A better example would be skipping a rock on water. Further the fact that the water explodes into a mist proves its taking most of the force and the fleshy bits and rind are simply disintegrating.
Imagine how much damage that round could have caused...reflected by freaking watermelons...who would have thought? Next time I build a bombshelter, instead of concrete I just place watermelons around it.
That is their coolest video ever or probably the most hardworked awsomeset video on internet right now! Let's get it to 200M guys! Knowledge 200% Entertainment 300% Quality 400%
That Sherman's gun is equipped with something called a muzzle break on the end of the barrel (the lumpy bit with the holes in the sides). It's designed to reduce the affect of recoil on the tank by diverting the hot gases shooting out of the barrel sideways and slightly backwards, kinda like how a ship's sail catches the wind. As such, it acts to "pull the gun forwards" as it fires, reducing the affect of the recoil pushing the entire gun backwards. Muzzle breaks have other functions, too, but that's the main purpose of it. Regardless, the overall effect is that the gun's propellant gases are forced sideways and slightly backwards. As such, by standing to the side of and slightly behind the end of the barrel (where the gases were being deflected), you were experiencing a lot more "blowback" than you really needed to... although it looked absolutely hilarious.
@@HappyBeezerStudios It does to a point. However, the gunner, loader, and commander are all inside the turret, which is mere inches form the weapon's breach. Even when it's closed, that thing is gonna be loud. On the plus side, you don't feel any blowback. The only place all the gases are going is out of the end of the barrel. This is just as well, though, since being subject to the full concussive force of a cannon firing (even without being hit by a projectile) is enough to rupture organs. The Slow Mo Guys were only subject to a tiny fraction of that full force.
Yeah another function of a muzzle break is to divert smoke to the sides (of course there'll be a bit in front of it) of the tank, instead of making an entire smokescreen in front of it.
Let me just say how impressive some of the stuff you pull with these cameras is. Pretty much anyone would have packed up and left after losing the direct sunlight, that's just common sense. But you two just casually knew exactly what adjustments to make to make it possible to get one more shot in. Not just any crew could have pulled that off, that takes skill born of long experience
actually makes sense that it deflected, it changed flight trajectory a bit after a couple watermelons and if the tip of the shell doesnt hit the next watermelon but instead hitting it with the lower wider part it wants to go up but due to the massive energy behind the shell you see it continueing with a different angle smashing other watermelons untill it finally drasticly deflects
@@PitbullTerror88 You can see how it happens but can you honestly say that, before you watched the video, you didn't expect that huge shell instantly to turn all the melons into melon mist? I completely understand what actually happened but I did not anticipate a massive shell bouncing off a few melons like a tennis ball.
I think the reason that they were deflected is because they are training rounds which is why they are blue. Also, you will notice in the first shot that there is a hole in the shell, which i believe is most likely due to the marking compound being removed from inside the shell for importation into the US. The compound is used in training to mark where the hits are made while at the range and is cheaper than using live rounds. Removing the marking compound will actually make the shell a lot lighter and could explain the deflection caused by striking the melons at such a high velocity.
Anyone else notice this is the same tank/range Demolition Ranch used and shot the tank round through the gun safe and fridge? The orange car is even the same one as when he was there
Matthew Contreras right!?! I always thought having the slow mo guys showing super slow mo of demo ranch’s bullet impacts on random stuff would be so entertaining!
I've never fired any gun/cannon quite so large as that Russian gun but I HAVE fired a fair number of 105mm rounds out of an M60A1 and M60A3 tanks when I served on them in the US Army. Literally a "Blast" much as you chaps experienced in the video. I wish I could have captured a picture as some did after dark where they would set up a 35mm SLR emulsion film camera, secured on the top the the Tank Commander Cupola sight for the M85 machine gun. With the aperture held open and the cannon fired, you could catch the muzzle blast, then the tracer element heading downrange, but when the concussion/blast reached the camera and resonated through the Tank body, there would be a pronounced zigzag look to the "trace" of the round then it would return to looking like a laser beam going downrange. So freaking COOL to see and a LOT of fun to shoot those cannons!! Thanks for the videos and the slomo. Brought back a LOT of fun memories!! PS, did you ask the owner of the Tank why his gun allowed the fired projo to cause a pronounced procession or wobble to the fired round? I'm curious if it is due to the barrel rifling being worn out or the steel projo's not having a brass driving band to properly engage and impart the spin as the round went downrange. Or, maybe, the projo's were intentionally undersized so as to not cause undue wear to the barrel lands. Heaven knows that spare barrels in pristine condition aren't easily available. Maybe by swapping out from a Sherman tank gate guard somewhere?? Thanks again, Gentlemen.
@Waxel Punkt. They are different models of the Sherman. The one fired was the Easy Eight. The last American model of the Sherman, the Israelis modified it to become the Super Sherman and it gave them good service.
The round hasn't had time to stabilize, at 50'. There is a "range zero" on rifled projectiles. Being an older barrel, the round would need more distance to stabilize. Then, you add that the projectiles have been drilled and emptied, making them even harder to stabilize. I'm not a "tanker", but rifled projectiles are rifled projectiles. Scientific properties apply to all of them.
ObiWanPikachu now don't get me wrong, go pros are very strong. But we may need to consider reinforcing the go pro with some Nokia parts just to be safe...
@@100GTAGUY It's obvious you don't think about consequences. If you fire a shell reinforced with Nokia parts, in the most optimistic case, the impact would shatter the Earth's crust. And that means we would follow the dinosaurs.
"Thankfully, there's nothing out there".
Camper: "Where'd my tent go?"
Oh there is a d20 50 pound shell there
@@Flipaclip41 lmao
Made me laugh harder than it should've
Camper: "Where'd my leg go??"
😂
Easily THE BEST footage of a shockwave I have ever seen. HANDS DOWN.
Bout to blow your mind boyyo ua-cam.com/video/BPwdlEgLn5Q/v-deo.html
more like *_HANDS UP_*
Yeah it was GORGEOUS
I agree
@@TheRobo I still prefer this shot. The Schlieren is cool but it's kinda cheating in a way, you can see a cough or a sneeze with it. The shockwave from the tank shell was visible without it, and that's cooler IMO.
Seeing the visible shockwave is so intense. Ballistics are amazing
I think that was the coolest part! That, and the watermelon deflection.
Get the SloMo guys some giant scheilren(?) mirrors!
That shell wobbled way more than I expected it to.
Now, calculate the speed of the round from the angle of the shockwave.
@@OsamaRana I don't have a handy dandy protractor but the looks about 45° so the speed is Mach 1.414
Edit: Nevermind that doesn't look right.
War Thunder Players: "We shall now start layering our tanks in watermelons to deflect the enemies shells."
Just gonna open up its armor and stuff watermelons inside
tonk
Both a meal and a defense
They gonna replace ERA with Melon RA
melon spall shield
all my dreams have come true tank you slow mo guys, love the banter as well o7
Phly, now we have to see YOU go out there and fire the D-20. Now you can imagine what the explosion is like from the KV-2
Phly daily is here omg I'm glad the ww2 buffs are all coming out to play
I did naaht....Oh hi Phly.
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Wow, TankDaily is here. Now they need to move the Sherman in front of that gun, or a less unrealistically, use high explosive rounds on a target.
That shell tracking is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
Quality content right there 👌🏻
Yup, awesome
I love that the footage looks like 80s CGI. If you didn't tell someone this was real I bet they would think it was CG.
The Navy uses the same rigs to track the rounds from the rail guns. That is some crazy fun footage. You think this tank is powerful?
Militaries have been doing it for a while. Some cool footage from the 80s if I’m remembering right
they've come a long way, from slapping each other in the face to firing a tank
Maybe soon they are shooting each others faces with a tank.
@@davidqbs Actually exactly what I was thinking. Just before the first shot I had to pause the video and analyze his ear protection. Definitely should've had double protection with the tank!
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I'm a VFX artist and I find your channel most helpful when looking for reference on every other project. Thank you very much for making my job easier
Since finding corridor crew, I can't stop seeing how applicable all these videos can be ~~ they've even done shots on black backgrounds from every angle. I do the music and audio end of it all, but am fascinated by y'all's side
Awesome! I can totally agree as an amateur vfx artist
Lol bro what even are u thinking to make!?
@@UR1ZEN BOMBS, EXPLOSIONS, WAR.
I'm also a vfx artist, love this channel but, it shows us how fake the real thinks look like... I mean the cracked glass video looks like they animate a mask without feather of texture map, the same here with the "bullet" oscillation... if we do the exact same thing, the director or the supervisor will say "sorry guy, looks fake!"
I love it, it's a fun thing, same for a simple smoke rising up, there is a dark mate line around in real life, for vfx, not good hahahah
8:23 that shockwave is one of the most amazing things I‘ve ever seen.
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You can even see a third wave line fall out of frame :D
It’s funny because at the beginning you see the explosion’s shockwave (round) and then it gets outrunned by the shell’s shockwave (cone)
@@hallopeepz yeah i noticed too, i think its the blast wave from the gun, the front and aft wave on the shell are the supersonic waves because its going supersonic. If you look closely, you can even see some more smaller shocwaves in between the front and aft wave, those are from the shape, so the things that are sticking out (dont know what they are called) also give some shockwaves.( its best noticable with the blue sky as background)
Humans were never meant to see that. My jaw fkg dropped.
Ways to change your hairstyle/haircut:
1. Combing
2. Using hair gel/wax
3. Firing a tank
4. Fired from tank 😂
@@chanakyasinha8046 So, you just got shooted from a tank definitely...
5. barber
@@icethegun.official shot*
@@gc315official 6. cancer
That was some of the sickest footage I've ever seen! PLEASE do this type of thing again! That tracking rig is insane!!
I know right.
not sure if possible, but i think it'd be nuts to see it with lightning
@@CoinRingsUSA Ya, but can it take on watermelons?
@@CoinRingsUSA Yup, that would be good. Reassembling the footage from a camera that was now in small pieces may be a bit more of a challenge!
I love Dan's reaction at 14:22 he's genuinely speechless but you can clearly see what he's thinking. "Duuude, did you see that? That thing went off course".
That's the moment he realized they missed the butts and the round (capable of travelling for miles) winged off into no man's land!
@@osrikking8785 some guys car is gone
lmao it was the most "I think we might be in trouble" look I've ever seen
Rest in peace to the village in Mexico where the shell landed.
When watermelons are plausibly cannonproof…
A few months ago: Smarter Every Day did an analysis of civil war era cannon shockwaves, filmed at 10-30k fps.
A month ago: Fullmag fires a tank round into a Land Rover Discovery, filmed at 60k fps.
Today: THIS.
I feel like we’re in a slow motion entertainment arms race, with these UA-cam heavyweights democratising this cutting edge camera tech for the masses.
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Now i know why a tank shell shot at angled armour sometimes got deflected...
@@calvinnyala9580 Angling increases the effective thickness of the armour, which is why it will make penetrating it harder
"Thankfully, there's nothing out there."
Meanwhile, on the next episode of Forgotten Weapons...
"Hey guys, thanks for tuning in for another episode of Forgotten Weapons, I'm Ian McCollum and today we're taKING ENEMY FIRE! INTO THE TRENCHES LADS!"
I really hope the lads end up doing a video with Ian one day.
Next up ac130.
I think it was Ian that explained that only solid shot was legal in the Pak-40 video.
Lord Kiltridge go on
Did you know that Forgotten Weapons did an almost hour long vijayo with this exact tank? In the same place. They fired all the guns.
Dan's laugh after he fired that massive 152MM is pure gold lol, you know he's just thinking "yeah i done that"
So glad I was warned about the product placement here. Otherwise I think I may have been unduly influenced into buying a Sherman tank over its competitors! This way, I can keep my tank research neutral, looking only at the specs of each tank rather than relying on the emotional attachment this video may have produced
It is a pretty good tank tbf
@@hungryhedgehog4201 best tank of ww2
you mean buying melons?
The AD was for Specialised Imaging Inc. not for the range/tank tho.
@@hungryhedgehog4201 experienced?
Imagine that one photon that came out the sun, travelled 8 minutes, came into the earths atmosphere, hit a wwII tanks' shell flying through the air, bounced off, hit a spinning mirror, went into the camera lens, and was absorbed by the sensor which was only open for about 1/57,000 of a second because of the camera's shutter
Captain America Not to mention the 100,000 years it takes that photon to make its way from the Sun’s core to the photosphere where it finally begins said 8-minute earthward journey.
Dope!
@Roger Dodger Yeah, exactly. Time is relative and at light speed time is not really relevant.
@@PartialViewmusic It depends on the observer
PartialViewmusic it is still relevent just different scale
"I paid a professional hair stylist, to do my hair, and you?"
"a tank made my hair."
Mr. Sherman. Best barber in town.
Manliest haircut anyone can ever have.
This is an insane resource for aerodynamics !
I'm sure Destin from SmarterEveryDay would drool over the shockwaves at 8:20
exactly what i was thinking. its like the Schlieren set-up but in full color
I think demoranch did a video with this very tank and setting.
@@TheOnlyInformant I was thinking the same thing.
@@SaraBearRawr0312 so was i
Sure he does, but I think he also did a video with that quick turning mirror before.
you can calculate the amount of kinetic energy from the intensity of dan's gasps
An acute angled ricochet of a normal bullet is scary.
An acute angled ricochet of an artillery round is...."scary beyond all reason".
Now you're just being obtuse.
See also: Yzma
Don’t worry, it’s probably in orbit right now. :D
@@DangleberriesJohnson Thank you for also getting this.
The Slow Mo Guys: This video includes paid product placement
Me: I CAN BUY A TANK?
I hope so!!!!
@SilentNinja why so serious
@SilentNinja chill dude, let them have the joke
@SilentNinja nonono, YOU didnt think it was funny. An opinion is not a fact.
Aww we got a party pooper... lets get 5 :D
"We're gonna slightly aim the barrel down."
If C-Stands could scream, this would've been the moment.
**Laughs** I'm in danger
True. They're more meant to be used upwards than straight forward
The line "Today, we're in Uvalde" while riding a tank hits a little different now.
And the line "the world's biggest gun in private ownership is here" tells us something about Texan attitudes to weaponry.
Had this exact thought. I don't think you need to tell us where Uvalde is now, Gav. The whole world knows.
@@AutPen38 Well, it is no longer. Go ask ukrainian farmers.
@@1001digital Those are the property of the Ukrainian army technically, much to the dismay of the farmers. I heard one guy was rather miffed when they came over to pick them up, he was hoping to hoard at least one of them.
@@AutPen38 they need more of them, and bigger, too
Personally I think this is one of the best videos you guys made!
EpicDonutDude agreed
Like next to the one where they blew lots of stuff up and like destroyed the demolition training area
Defenitely!
My father was a tank commander in the New Zealand Division Armoured Regiment in Italy. They had the standard Shermans, with the 75-mm gun, which he said was a useful enough weapon, but the game changed when they started receiving Shermans with the Firefly conversion - the British 17-pounder anti-tank gun. They were very impressed with a gun that could destroy anything it was aimed at.
When they fired the 75 mm gun, they could stand outside the tank and observe the fall of shot, but the 17-pounder gun's muzzle blast was so colossal that they had to shelter inside the turret when it fired, or be standing further away from the tank than these slo-mo guys were. If they were firing at anything less than one thousand yards away it was impossible to spot the fall of shot because they were still flinching from the muzzle blast when the shot arrived at the other end.
Also the amount of dust and propellant fumes would make it incredibly difficult to see for a few moments, albeit it would make identifying where the shot came from incredibly simple. That and the astronomical flash from the shot as it was fired, the fire from said explosion is why it's called a firefly, because of the intense flames erupting from the barrel of the 17pdr.
@@ch4z_bucks If, when you comment on the "astronomical flash" and "intense flames" from the gun, you are basing your comment on the slow-motion video of the gun firing, it is useful to recognise that, at normal speed, such as when the slow-mo guy first fired the gun, the muzzle flash was so fast it was effectively invisible.
My father often spoke of the gun and its different aspects and he never once mentioned the muzzle flash as graphically as you have described it. Do you know for a fact that the "astronomical flash" was why it was called the Firefly?
In fact, I wonder if these slow-mo guys were actually firing full-power ammunition because, if they were, they would standing a lot further away from the tank. Look for a UA-cam video, titled, "Was The 17 Pounder the best allied Anti-Tank Gun in WW2?" There is a clip of the gun being fired and the muzzle blast is colossal - far more powerful than in this slow-mo exercise.
@@MarsFKA it was a rumour I heard for the name "firefly" I don't remember the specific source but it was something I had heard before I'd seen this video. I'd never questioned it (mistake on my part) as it made sense and I hadn't heard an alternative.
This wasnt a firefly in the video however, it was the M4A3E8 with the M1A1 76mm cannon
@@rustingparts don't E8's have the M1A2? or is this one different?
Dan: *Points at the impact on the tire*
Gav: "You know what that looks like? My gran"
dammit you beat me to it
That pause, though. LOL
Yeah , I grew quite concerned in a short amount of time with that one
I watched this when it first came out and have come back to re-watch it a dozen or so times since and it gets better every single time. Absolutely amazing footage. Well done Gavin and Daniel.
Best slow mo guys video to date, that shockwave was amazing
This is the quickest I ever clicked on one of your videos
vartriiness so do i 👍🏻
That is the quickest I ever clicked the like button on a video
Morbid confidence lol, same
That was awesome
It's highly likely that the round got deflected because what you fired was a hollow training HE shell with no explosives, but which was not back-filled with an inert equivalent. If that was an actual HE or penetrator shell, it wouldn't even notice that the watermelons were there.
They did that probably to reduce wear and strain on a unique and extremely expensive gun, since there was very little recoil.
Also saves a TON of money on propellant. And lower pressures due to lower projectile weight would explain the large amount of unburned propellant.
@@schnozz2169 SU-152 and ISU-152.
Correct! Blue denotes a training round. It was not an HE or even a concrete slug. Usually the projectile mass of medium grade artillery is too much to notice melons. Another reason why they do not use HE is because the Department of Homeland Security does not think that any one person or small groups of persons should be handling explosives of that magnitude. Which is a shame because that would make for some amazing slomo footage. Mist that truck like the melons.
Justin Hingtgen that’s not quite how that works. Same projectile size does not at all mean same gun. The obj 268 did not have a k-20 on it. But it did indeed have a cannon that fired a 152mm projectile.
@@Your_Resident_Redleg Doh! I should've spotted it was blue!
Generally means training everywhere around the world, including where I live.
Surprising they didn't just fire a solid lug though, for a high end video.
Those mirror tracking shots were incredible. I realise it's just software doing its thing, but the concept of turning that mirror so quickly yet with such precision is blowing my mind. The entire thing happens in a fraction of a second and it managed to perfectly track the round. 🤯
"Contains paid product placement" What, the tank?!
That's what I was wondering
The camera they used to track the shot
Probably because this is a UA-cam paid series.
The M4 Sherman is not anymore in production but maybe that D-20 howitzer is still on sale somewhere, they probably also have an affiliate link for it :'D
The watermelons
"You missed, with a cannon!" Tremors 4: The Legend Begins.
Storm trooper inteseifies
The big question is where did it land? 😂
@@shqdy5528 I think about here: ua-cam.com/video/ncG-wUplYM8/v-deo.html
I don’t think any of the millennials will know what “Tremors” is....
Great movie by the way!
ANNO DOMINI yeet
remember when you popped balloons? now you have a tank. this makes me happy
Weirdly enough i still find the baloon episodes and older episodes better than newer ones even with a tank involved
"This put a smile on my face."
I never would have guessed that filming things in super slow motion is an art. Brilliant guys.
8:30 the "V" that you see are the Mach lines, that typically appear on edges of objects moving above the speed of sound. You can actually mesure the speed of the shell just by mesuring the angle of the V.
Can you do the same with geese?
@@strangelee4400 sure, a supersonic geese would kinda produce the same effect. However I'm not sure about its life status at this particular moment :p
I'm not sure if the fact the angle of the "V" appears to be getting more obtuse throughout that shot is because the round is decelerating or if it's just the angle of observation changing as the camera (mirror) tracks it.
@@dkcrogue Lower the speed, wider the angle, you are right. The shell looses speed but on that short of a distance, you wouldn't really see the effect on the angle. So yes i'd say that the angle of filming is playing a big role there
I think Destin at SED did a video on this very subject with some fancy camera tricks and of course .. slow motion :)
My great great grandfather survived WWI thanks to 17 melons in his breast pocket.
Underated comment
Hi
😂😂👌🏼
Fun fact: that somebody was Teddy Roosevelt (although it was his 50-page speech which he had folded twice along with metal glasses case, not just some index cards).
When the attempt occurred, he simply told the audience that he had been shot and went on to give a nearly 90-minute speech.
When he finally received medical care, doctors concluded that it would be safer leaving the bullet in rather than attempting to remove it, so he ended up carrying the bullet that was imbedded in him for the rest of his life.
On an unrelated note: Teddy died at the age of 60. He died in his sleep, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
would have been much more impressive if it was your great great grand-mother, know what I'm sayin?
Those plugs were totally inadequate hearing protection. So thank you for sacrificing your hearing for science.
Served with a 155mm gun(M198), that's all the army issued us.
@@stephenmelton2532 You got hearing protection? We barely got a warning so we could stick our fingers in our ears
@UCuuC2PVr-SGcW4FhhaVozwA Exactly. That means damage was done. When enough damage is done the ringing doesn't stop and you have tinnitus.
WHAT!?
Beats not having earplugs though. Also, the ringing will stop when you die, so don't worry too much.
The speed of sound there is about 343 meters/second = 1125 feet/sec. At 2000 to 2500 feet/sec, the shell was going about Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. This results in a significant sonic boom wave. And the light going through that wave is refracted by the different densities of the air in the different parts of the shock wave. Fun, thanks.
Not impressed with wabble and then yaw of the Sherman tank shell so I would like to compare it with a 75 mm Panzer 4 shell ! I would expect an almost perfect flight !
@@oceanhome2023 Interesting, thanks.
The sonic boom is caused by cavitation or atmosphere being pushed away and then collapse back in on itself to fill the void. Whats interesting is that the wave stayed a cheveron shape even when yawing out of control
@@off6848 that's a good non-technical description of nonlinear hydrodynamics.
Newspaper writing: Hiking person hit by a random flying tank bullet
When did we develop flying tanks? O.o
@@RenniaTrayvold I should have used shell. I'm sorry for my not at all perfect english though
@@tim_schtz Hey now ^^ No need for the sarcasm, I was just teasing :P
@@RenniaTrayvold well my, answer was meant as I said. Maybe i just misunderstood your question xD
@@RenniaTrayvold In the 20th century actually
the amazing thing is that shell never made direct contact with the c-stands. it was the force of the exploding melons that destroyed them.
Both shots compared: The sonic and kinetic energy oozing from that projectile caused the watermelons to blow up. By far, extremely awesome.
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"It's an absolute warzone!"
-Gavin Free, 2019, after firing a tank and artillery
Hellvillain he was talking about destroyed c-stands
I was 16 yrs old and deer hunting with my father. It was raining and it was almost ready to snow.
The drops of rain were like a fine mist.
A nice buck stepped out an I fired first followed by dad's shot. I swear it was like traced from the tip of the barrel to impact. Each drop of rain exploded as the bullet traveled through the air. It was awesome!
Thought I would share cause that was 50 yrs ago.
thats very cool. hunting must be full of amazing wonders like that out in nature
Okay I want to see this in slow motion now.
So what you can learn from this video is if you see a tank, hide behind some melons and you'll be fine
If only they knew...
😂😂😂😂
I'm just imagining bunkers, but with rows of watermelons instead of sandbags.
@@KingBongHogger Hitler's secret weapon
@@peepoobeepoo5842 Fruitenwaffen
And to penetrate tank armor, get an air cannon and some Maltese's. The tank doesn't stand a chance.
11:35 for the record this is the EXACT sound your supposed to make after firing a gun that turns buildings into rubble.
Russian laugh
@@centralcontroller6483 lol,
*gets battlefield 1 flashbacks*
Why don't they just put melons around tanks for delicious protection?
Nah, soldiers would get used to it and not find it impressive at all.
10:03 I really thought the video was finished then that made me laugh 😂
“Well, I’m firing that obviously”
“I’ll unpack the phantom”
I’ve been watching you guys on and off over the years, always liked your videos.
But this? This is maybe one of THE most awesome UA-cam videos I’ve ever seen!
And the still at 14:33, ridiculous!
Watermelon: "It only took seven of us to deflect a 152 mil D-20 shell fired from 50 feet away!"
Pumpkin: "Hold my beer..."
@yeetboi3000 Probably guys should check it out. I served in the army on 2С3 but did not know that it would not take 7 watermelons)
@EconomicsMate I'm afraid you are wrong my friend. D-20 is 152mms and ML-20 also 152mm. 122mms M-30 but that's not it.
Lol
@@ДмитрийХацкевич-ф3ш RUSSIANS
Pumpkin:hold my seeds
So wait, where exactly was the product placement? The tracking apparatus? The tanks? The...melons?
I was wondering that too.
Could have been the owners of that awesome camera that paid the Slow Mo Guys to feature it
@@Cmdr_Melarn dan DID mention that the second gun was the "largest private weapon you can own" maybe the guy that owns it paid them
They mentioned the company that the guy was from. I believe that is what it referred to
Well, I AM inclined towards buying watermelons that could save my life from artillery bombardment, provided I buy a dozen or so of them.
This is literally the best footage available to the public of this stuff! LITERALLY the best video ever (of its kind). Insane stuff
I did not expect that result as well, but in hindsight, it makes sense
The water melons are, after all, mostly water.
Water is kind of good at stopping high speed objects (i believe there are videos of bullets shot into pool/barrel/something watery.
And if you don't aim dead center (i.e. there is slightly less resistance on the top than on the bottom because you hit the top half of the melon), it's gonna deflect
Its because of volume. If you had a 75mm thick tin plate filled with water it would pass through the thing about firing into a pool is that the volume of water in a standard 6 foot kiddie pool would equate to passing thru 2 meters of armor. Its not that water is great at deflecting its just that 2 meters volume of any material is very hard to penetrate
13:47 “Did you hear that?” -Gavin Free
Helen Keller heard that Gavin.
He was talking about the hissing sound of the shell spinning into the sunset... Which is honestly more impressive than the actual gun going off
Counting the fact that she's also dead, yes, she heard that all the way in heaven too.
This video has some of the best shockwave footage I’ve ever seen.
9:52 & 12:07 -- TWICE I was tricked into thinking the fun was all done
me too i was sad
Duped
Top 10 Anime betrayals
So true 😂
BONUS MEME
No matter how much I understand pressure waves I will forever be fascinated seeing them in slow motion....It's like the most reality-breaking effect for me and the one on this round-tracing shot (the second one particularly) was insanely cool
Water is pretty much a solid at higher velocities, hence watermelon deflections. Awesome stuff!
Indeed, incompressible.
...
OK, so why isn't tank armour full of water?
Or big drums of water on the outside?
@@krisematics6501
But still 8 times _less_ dense than steel.
Hey, you know what, seeing as chobam et al. are all classified, for all we know they _are_ full of water!
@@MostlyPennyCat I guess maintaining it will be a pain. There'll be leaks with it being exposed to all the shockwaves.
@@MostlyPennyCat
do you wan't to be protected by 800 mm of steel or 800 mm of water?
D E N S I T Y
@@drinkyourwater1039 800mm of steel and water is an unrealistic equivalency. Assuming you'd fill the water once on-site and not need to worry about the space requirements during transit, the limiting factor would be mass. Therefore it would be more fair to compare 800mm of water with 100mm of steel (imperfect volume vs surface area calculation but close enough)
Still I'd take the steel 9 times out of 10 for a dozen others reasons but just critiquing your comparison.
Math books: "Someone buys 50 watermelons.."
Students: "Why would someone need 50 watermelons?!"
Thank you for answering that question :D
Lol
I can't see how Paul Harrell is going to top this...
ua-cam.com/video/QjgGlolY-8s/v-deo.html
.....And 25 Artillery shells !!
@@user936 "On today's video, we'll be testing the armor-penetrating performance of a 152mm ML20 gun firing armor-piercing ammunition. For that, I've set up these meat targets, which are made of couch leather "skin" followed by pork steak "pectoral," pork ribs, oranges to simulate lung tissue with pork ribs on the back, with the new-and-improved high-tech fleece bullet stop on the back."
Never watched R Lee Ermey's later projects?
What a great episode! The image of Gav sitting squatted behind the truck waiting for the blast is so funny.
"check out part two where we learn to drive a tank"
*video above his hand is about a hummingbird*
Part II will be up tomorrow, the hummingbird video is a placeholder.
Same.🤣
At 14:39 you can see the third watermelon from the left is falling and it has a perfect circular hole in it.
DUDE!! Thats pretty epic
I really hope they saw this!
its more like a crater than a donut
Ha! Good eye!
hahaha
Next time
Firing a cruise missile in slow motion!
Nuke in slow motion
At melons.
How many melons to deflect a tomahawk. FU technology :-)
@@Tharkz probs like 20
Иван Хряпов Haha good luck with that
@@IvanKhryapov The last video ever recorded by mankind : the apocalypse in slow-mo
The one thing that I found most interesting about this is the in flight view of the projectile not flying in a perfectly flat trajectory . I never realized that a cannon round would "porpoise" that way.
Awesome footage !!
Next: Firing battleship main guns.
If you can find a working battleship main cannon anywhere in the world I'll give you an internet cookie. 🍪
...at some melons.
@@legogenius1667 USS New Jersey?
Next after that, an atomic bomb in super slow mo.
@@BubbaCheez78 Nope, those guns will never fire again. Wonderful ship though.
Best channel on UA-cam!!!
Next time on slow mo guys
Gav: today we are gonna detonate a nuclear bomb at 1000 frames per second
Edit: i should have specified that this is just the starting speed. The second one will be a much faster frame rate
Nono, 500000 frames per second.
Don't forget that it will be in 4K.
I thought about the same thing!
1000? LMAO my phone can record in 960FPS
@Doctor011 Is it Mate 30 Pro or P40 Pro?
Thanks!
Feb 20 2019. USA develops ballistic reactive watermelon armor.
Commander Nightingale theoretically it is possible and it was made, 200 lbs for front chest only though
DO NOT aim for the melons. Might miss.
Now I'm thinking of MRAPs covered in a layer of 10 watermelons bouncing along the road. Thanks :^(
no because after the shot we heard the shell whistles
😂
9:24 "This is the LEAST impressive hole ever.".... "You know what it looks like? My Gran."
Ok... That's enough internet for now.
out of context pearl
I just readed this comment when hi said that
Lol
literally paused to go through the comment section and look for a comment referencing this.
Absolute class comment :D
going from condoms in wind tunnels to tanks.
Some of the most amazing footage mankind has ever filmed. Wow. Good job!!!!!
"the biggest and most powerful private gun in the world"
~bullet gets deflected by a bunch of watermelons
Germany should have considered watermelon armor on their Tigers.
Was probably a hollowed out HE shell, so most of the weight was gone due to the lack of explosive filler.
Also watermelon: gets split in half by some rubber bands
@Platypus Artist when one attempts to describe scientific principals in an effort to show their intelligence, it's generally a good idea not to use pseudo words like "cuz" nor misspell simple words such as "dense".
Also, although you're technically correct, saying that "it was not watermelons that deflected it ( I'll leave out the comma you should've used at this point as I'm quoting you directly.) it was the water in the watermelons" is not exactly the intelligent, yet nuanced point I think you were attempting to make. Although that would make a great defense in court- " I didn't shoot him, I shot the water that makes up appx 60-65% of his body!" I'm pretty sure they'd call that a ridiculous premise.
" they didn't shoot that truck!, They shot the steel, rubber and aluminum that the truck is made of!"
" They didn't fire that artillery piece, They ignited the nitrocellulose thats contained in the shell, creating rapidly expanding gases which caused the projectile to fly downrange."
" They didn't video this in slow motion. they used cameras that take many images in a very short period of time. Which was then electronically stitched together to make a full motion image."
I think I made my point.
Alberto Brixus the shell was probably lightly filled with gun powder becouse its a overkill for shooting watermelons with a 152mm howitzer
Wow. Just wow. You could see the shell warping the air! Wow. Mind blow. Anyone else a little disappointed the melon mist wasn’t pink? This is the best Slo-Mo guys video ever.
Michael Rossell I think the watermelon might have been vaporizer by the heat
Jeremy Pitts It’s from the impact force, not heat
That is why angled armor Is so important
Just a little angle to the armor and the shell can bounce off
But if it’s flat the shell will drill the armor with all its force
Exactly. It has nothing to do with the "dense water" properties people are claiming. It's the much more dense curved rind (armor).
@@corymcdermott5096 Actually I'm pretty sure people are referring to the imcompressibility of water which is causing the water rich melon to act like a solid object momentarily as the shell impacts. That is why if you watch the slow-mo of the round you see the nose rise and the tail strike a melon or two causing a reverse in rotation sending the tail over the nose. The rind lacks sufficient strength to do anything to the round without the water contained within.
@@noctisumbra2749 So, take a piece of the interior flesh of the melon, and a similar size piece of the rind (just the rind); drop a rock onto the flesh of the melon. Measure the results. Now, drop that same rock onto the rind. Measure the results. The rind of a watermelon is much more dense and stronger, than the water saturated flesh.
inb4 america makes a tank shaped made entirely out of angled armor
@@corymcdermott5096 Your test is not relevant to the video as the forces involved are not orders of magnitude more stronger than the tensile strength strength of materials. A better example would be skipping a rock on water. Further the fact that the water explodes into a mist proves its taking most of the force and the fleshy bits and rind are simply disintegrating.
Your microphone and sound crew did their job wonderfully. Your sound effects team is great .
Imagine how much damage that round could have caused...reflected by freaking watermelons...who would have thought? Next time I build a bombshelter, instead of concrete I just place watermelons around it.
The shell seemed to be empty, that's why it could be deflected
Isgolo Yeah, they probably fired a pure armor piercing round. No explosives inside.
Well, deflected not reflected
Moos P. Flex seal
@@YourMJK True dat, the watermelons probably briefly got reflected in the shell before they deflected the shell. :)
"Luckily there's nothing out there"
Meanwhile, Wile E just got a high velocity buzz cut.
he's had worse
The moment you involve tanks, you have my full attention.
I'm in the Army and have been in an armor unit. I never would have guessed that one of those rounds would be deflected. AMAZING!!
That is their coolest video ever or probably the most hardworked awsomeset video on internet right now!
Let's get it to 200M guys!
Knowledge 200%
Entertainment 300%
Quality 400%
It seems that the concept of percentage is to you what that 152mm shell was to the last couple of lucky watermelons.
My one disappointment is that, on seeing two watermelons remaining, nobody asked "do you think we've caught the bullet?"
Because they instantly knew what just happened. If you listen close enough you can hear the bullet go cartwheeling through the air.
What bullet?
@@Wedehawk r/whooosh
@@gregpasq ? The one fired out of the gun?
That wasn't a bullet.
“You missed!? How’d you miss!?!”
They don’t call it indirect fire for nothing, guys.
World of Tanks accuracy
Time for some creeping barrage slow mo! :D
"It moved!"
That's what they call collateral.
The Slow Mo Guys: This video includes paid product placement
Me: I CAN BUY A TANK?
12:17 that Thunder like sound when the propellant ignite and than that BAAANG when the Shell leave the Muzzle... absolutly amazing
How, when, where, what, who did this channel go from.... “giant water balloon........in slow motion” to “giant wwll tank......in slow motion”???
Its called serial escalation. Soon they'll be blowing up the moon in slow motion.
That's what we call creativity and talent !
Captain Firepower same bro!!🤟🏾🔥🔥❤️❤️
Believe it or not, that wasn't one of the ''giant tanks'' of WW2. It was a medium.
That Sherman's gun is equipped with something called a muzzle break on the end of the barrel (the lumpy bit with the holes in the sides). It's designed to reduce the affect of recoil on the tank by diverting the hot gases shooting out of the barrel sideways and slightly backwards, kinda like how a ship's sail catches the wind. As such, it acts to "pull the gun forwards" as it fires, reducing the affect of the recoil pushing the entire gun backwards.
Muzzle breaks have other functions, too, but that's the main purpose of it. Regardless, the overall effect is that the gun's propellant gases are forced sideways and slightly backwards.
As such, by standing to the side of and slightly behind the end of the barrel (where the gases were being deflected), you were experiencing a lot more "blowback" than you really needed to... although it looked absolutely hilarious.
The muzzle brake was missing at the begining when the drive the tank.
@@tommytrex8022, it was mentioned, in the video, that the tank they were going to fire was a different tank from the one they were driving.
Good point.
And usually when shooting a tank, you happen to be inside the tank. All that armor probably deflects and isolates some of the noise.
@@HappyBeezerStudios It does to a point. However, the gunner, loader, and commander are all inside the turret, which is mere inches form the weapon's breach. Even when it's closed, that thing is gonna be loud.
On the plus side, you don't feel any blowback. The only place all the gases are going is out of the end of the barrel.
This is just as well, though, since being subject to the full concussive force of a cannon firing (even without being hit by a projectile) is enough to rupture organs. The Slow Mo Guys were only subject to a tiny fraction of that full force.
Yeah another function of a muzzle break is to divert smoke to the sides (of course there'll be a bit in front of it) of the tank, instead of making an entire smokescreen in front of it.
9:29
This is the least impressive hole ever.
Do you know what it looks like ?
My Gran.....
HAHAHAHAHAH I was thinking the same
A pause at the wrong place can send the whole world burning... Or our stomachs aching from a joke that wasn't meant to be.
Let me just say how impressive some of the stuff you pull with these cameras is. Pretty much anyone would have packed up and left after losing the direct sunlight, that's just common sense. But you two just casually knew exactly what adjustments to make to make it possible to get one more shot in.
Not just any crew could have pulled that off, that takes skill born of long experience
I'll be honest, this was a bit cooler than the geysers and birds. Well done boys, dat's some good shiet.
Aren't those shells somewhere in the ballpark of 40kg? A watermelon deflecting a mach-speed projectile like that deserves a standing ovation
actually makes sense that it deflected, it changed flight trajectory a bit after a couple watermelons and if the tip of the shell doesnt hit the next watermelon but instead hitting it with the lower wider part it wants to go up but due to the massive energy behind the shell you see it continueing with a different angle smashing other watermelons untill it finally drasticly deflects
@@PitbullTerror88 You can see how it happens but can you honestly say that, before you watched the video, you didn't expect that huge shell instantly to turn all the melons into melon mist?
I completely understand what actually happened but I did not anticipate a massive shell bouncing off a few melons like a tennis ball.
@@joshuarosen6242 i didnt expected the mist :p that shell must have been so hot that it instantly vaporised the juice of the melons
I think the reason that they were deflected is because they are training rounds which is why they are blue. Also, you will notice in the first shot that there is a hole in the shell, which i believe is most likely due to the marking compound being removed from inside the shell for importation into the US. The compound is used in training to mark where the hits are made while at the range and is cheaper than using live rounds. Removing the marking compound will actually make the shell a lot lighter and could explain the deflection caused by striking the melons at such a high velocity.
@@Fierofreak01 yeah he said it was solid steel
Anyone else notice this is the same tank/range Demolition Ranch used and shot the tank round through the gun safe and fridge? The orange car is even the same one as when he was there
Has to be the same tank, it's the only one of its kind that still exists in full working condition. They said so in the video.
They specified that this is one of a kind in that it shoots and drives, there are probably more versions that only either drive or shoot just sayin
A Chill Dude Who Plays Games
They are nearing each other...one of these days they will pair up and make the most popular UA-cam video in history
Matthew Contreras right!?! I always thought having the slow mo guys showing super slow mo of demo ranch’s bullet impacts on random stuff would be so entertaining!
Also same place he ran his old truck over with a tank
Me: 'Oh look, more Slow Mo Guys content!'
Video: *Set in Uvalde, TX*
Me: Oof...
My thoughts exactly when I heard it
For anyone wondering how much money 9 C stands is, it's about $1394
I am in production and it was a mess seeing all the C stands shot!!
I don't think they're getting their rental deposit back...
The round probably cost way more than that. Waaaayyy more
Oof
They might not be total losses. The round doesn't touch them. So the damage might look worse than it actually is.
We went from water balloons to war machines. I like where we're heading.
Next stop : Tsar Bomba in Slow Mo
@@Laazeriits ffs that would truly be insane
Invading Poland in slow mo
Hi im Dan from the slow no guys and the props department invented a fugging time machine...
Lets film the Hindenburg explosion
meteor crater in slow mo
I've never fired any gun/cannon quite so large as that Russian gun but I HAVE fired a fair number of 105mm rounds out of an M60A1 and M60A3 tanks when I served on them in the US Army.
Literally a "Blast" much as you chaps experienced in the video.
I wish I could have captured a picture as some did after dark where they would set up a 35mm SLR emulsion film camera, secured on the top the the Tank Commander Cupola sight for the M85 machine gun.
With the aperture held open and the cannon fired, you could catch the muzzle blast, then the tracer element heading downrange, but when the concussion/blast reached the camera and resonated through the Tank body, there would be a pronounced zigzag look to the "trace" of the round then it would return to looking like a laser beam going downrange.
So freaking COOL to see and a LOT of fun to shoot those cannons!!
Thanks for the videos and the slomo. Brought back a LOT of fun memories!!
PS, did you ask the owner of the Tank why his gun allowed the fired projo to cause a pronounced procession or wobble to the fired round?
I'm curious if it is due to the barrel rifling being worn out or the steel projo's not having a brass driving band to properly engage and impart the spin as the round went downrange. Or, maybe, the projo's were intentionally undersized so as to not cause undue wear to the barrel lands. Heaven knows that spare barrels in pristine condition aren't easily available. Maybe by swapping out from a Sherman tank gate guard somewhere??
Thanks again, Gentlemen.
They should have filmed inside the turret.
Its a US weapon actually
@@adamscott7354 Which one?
@Waxel Punkt. They are different models of the Sherman. The one fired was the Easy Eight. The last American model of the Sherman, the Israelis modified it to become the Super Sherman and it gave them good service.
The round hasn't had time to stabilize, at 50'. There is a "range zero" on rifled projectiles. Being an older barrel, the round would need more distance to stabilize. Then, you add that the projectiles have been drilled and emptied, making them even harder to stabilize. I'm not a "tanker", but rifled projectiles are rifled projectiles. Scientific properties apply to all of them.
Those are some amazing shots.. The best video of a shockwave I've ever seen..
Tank ricochet in slow mo??
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Safety concerns does not apply. I also want to see it
You already saw the ricochet from watermelon
@@johnyboy9102 no like proper ricochetes off of thick bits of metal
Now get a GoPro and some duct tape and tape it to the front of the round. It's a GoPro, it'll survive!
ObiWanPikachu now don't get me wrong, go pros are very strong. But we may need to consider reinforcing the go pro with some Nokia parts just to be safe...
@@100GTAGUY It's obvious you don't think about consequences. If you fire a shell reinforced with Nokia parts, in the most optimistic case, the impact would shatter the Earth's crust. And that means we would follow the dinosaurs.
You'll need to combine it with a nokia 3310 to make a invincible camera
@@Lahim27 nah, the tank is the one going to explode.
This is by far and away my fave video out of the 244 you have uploaded on this channel. Nothing more to say really! *EPIC*
Actually, this is one of the most incredible videos on the internet. Curious minds gonna love this