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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2007 20:40:05 GMT
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Post by rammstein on Jan 5, 2007 20:40:55 GMT
oh my god, you are reading my mind! I was 3 seconds away from posting this ;D on Sword Forum right? I laughed so hard when I saw the glroious katana against a machine gun. took like 5 hits and snapped clean off!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2007 20:57:31 GMT
Excellant post Witetalon! Karma to you.
I think the first 4 .50 cal only hit the blade edge. The 5 th one hit closer to the spine. I think if the first one had hit dead center it would have snapped it immediatly.
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Post by ShooterMike on Jan 5, 2007 21:20:59 GMT
This is a cool video, and a great marketing ploy for the sword maker. At least the pistol bullet portion. Who wouldn't want a sword that "can stand up to bullets without damage."
The slow-mo of the bullets eating away at the blade are very instructive. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what makes the .50 BMG bullets so much more damaging to the blade than the 9mm bullets?
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Post by rammstein on Jan 5, 2007 21:21:55 GMT
higher caliber and much faster.
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Post by ShooterMike on Jan 5, 2007 21:27:39 GMT
So, just more energy in the form of momentum?
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Post by rammstein on Jan 5, 2007 21:30:15 GMT
I'm assuming by that question I'm wrong, but I know that those bullets from the machine gun were bigger and faster.
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Post by ShooterMike on Jan 5, 2007 21:49:51 GMT
No, you aren't wrong. But it's deceptive.
If you look at the slow-mo closely at the end, even though it's all in Japanese, you can tell that they number the impacts as bullets 1-7, with #7 being the one that actually broke the sword in two. Each preceding bullet took just a little chunk out of the edge. It's clear from the footage that several of these bullets are cut to varying degrees. Only bullet #2 is a glancing blow. Bullet #4 is completely shattered with minimal damage to the sword. Finally, bullet #7 hit a spot that didn't have any edge left (a flat surface) and the blunt impact caused the blade to finally shatter through at that spot.
Techno Details: The gun is a Browning M2 Heavy Barrel, affectionately called a "Ma Deuce". It fires .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun (BMG) ammunition consisting of a 750 grain projectile at a muzzle velocity of around 2,900 feet per second (fps). That round typically penetrates light armored steel vehicles reasonably well.
The fact that they had to hammer this Katana at close range with 6 direct impacts before breaking the blade says to me, that this is one tough sword! whoever made it should be very proud.
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Post by rammstein on Jan 5, 2007 21:51:21 GMT
about that above post... Mike is from texas
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Post by ShooterMike on Jan 5, 2007 21:55:49 GMT
Yeah...well...that's not where all that came from. Most of my fellow Texicans wouldn't know beans about that. They don't issue BMGs here, or anything else belt-fed. ;D And...sometimes I talk too much.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 3:56:04 GMT
Number 3 in the set.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 5:10:38 GMT
What the hell was that ??!?!!? a laser?? with water around it to cool it? Or some supper cooled gas that has been liquified? Awesome Videos.
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Post by Marc Ridgeway on Jan 6, 2007 6:15:00 GMT
What the hell was that ??!?!!? a laser?? with water around it to cool it? Or some supper cooled gas that has been liquified? Awesome Videos. No, it was water. A water cutter uses highly pressurized stream of water to cut and mill metal
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 7:41:48 GMT
marc is correct, i think they said "wohtuh cuttah" like 50 times during that vid...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2007 21:11:29 GMT
wow, that is amazing. I new that hight presure water could cut things but not to that extent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2007 7:13:37 GMT
No, you aren't wrong. But it's deceptive. If you look at the slow-mo closely at the end, even though it's all in Japanese, you can tell that they number the impacts as bullets 1-7, with #7 being the one that actually broke the sword in two. Each preceding bullet took just a little chunk out of the edge. It's clear from the footage that several of these bullets are cut to varying degrees. Only bullet #2 is a glancing blow. Bullet #4 is completely shattered with minimal damage to the sword. Finally, bullet #7 hit a spot that didn't have any edge left (a flat surface) and the blunt impact caused the blade to finally shatter through at that spot. Techno Details: The gun is a Browning M2 Heavy Barrel, affectionately called a "Ma Deuce". It fires .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun (BMG) ammunition consisting of a 750 grain projectile at a muzzle velocity of around 2,900 feet per second (fps). That round typically penetrates light armored steel vehicles reasonably well. The fact that they had to hammer this Katana at close range with 6 direct impacts before breaking the blade says to me, that this is one tough sword! whoever made it should be very proud. The .50 BMG round described above.
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Post by ShooterMike on Jan 27, 2007 1:39:18 GMT
Definitely one karma point for you! Anyone who can take a pic of belted .50 BMG and post it deserves no less. Look at those beautiful babies, just waiting to play!
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