I found Kentucky Ballistics after that incident and it’s now one of the channels I look most forward to new uploads from. Always love seeing the big guns few people have even heard of and especially the collabs doing Kentucky Roulette.
That entire exploding rifle set of videos is insane.
I find it disturbing that the line between a 50 caliber rifle exploding or not is a few extra grains of powder. It just seems like the margin for error should be higher but idk, I’m not a explosives specialist.
It wasn’t “a few extra grains”. The round was severely overcharged, like 3x normal pressure generated by the round. 50k PSI normally generated by the round in the chamber vs 180k PSI necessary for the weapon to fail. With a replacement rifle, he test fired every other round he had from that batch and had no issues, but a round they purposely made overcharged (190k PSI) blew the thing up again in the same way.
Lmao, I just watched that video last night! And out of the dozen slap rounds they put through the 2nd one, none caused it to blow, though most made it very difficult to open and reload.
He had to put an extra spicy round in to get it to detonate, but the slap round that originally blew up could have been that spicy.
is that even an official image? Seems weird to me that the location marker and the school tag are two completely different styles, but maybe that’s just the military over there lmao.
that makes sense, checks out. Although it does look like theres a white outline on the building of the school tag, so this is either a really specific map. Or someone actually made that by hand for this image. Though im guessing the strike tag was added over top of that still.
lemmy.world
Newest