Special Ops Bomb Tech Rates 11 Bomb Disposals in Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2023
- Master EOD Technician Jay Ly rates bomb disposal scenes in movies and television for realism.
Ly looks at common explosives used in combat throughout history, from the improvised explosive device in "The Hurt Locker" (2008), starring Jeremy Renner; to World War II bombs in "M*A*S*H" S1E20 (1973) and "Rambo" (2008), starring Sylvester Stallone. Ly explains the plausibility of disarming nuclear weapons in "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" (2023), with Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg; the detonation of the nuclear warhead in "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), with Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway; and the underwater explosive in "The Abyss" (1989). Ly also breaks down various tools and procedures used in explosive ordnance disposal, including using a robot for bomb detection in "Bluestone 42" S1E1 (2013), the bomb squad kit in "S.W.A.T." S5E13 (2022); and the wire cutters used in "SEAL Team" S2E1 (2018). Additionally, Ly looks at the realism of communication systems and render safe procedures used in "Archer" S1E7 (2010) and "Speed" (1994), starring Keanu Reeves.
Ly is a former Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician for the US Navy, with 13 years of experience in explosive ordnance disposal. He did four combat deployments, including three to Afghanistan and a subsequent deployment to Bahrain. Ly is the founder and president of Golden Compass, a leadership and personal finance coaching company. He is also the Community Engagement Liaison of Navy Special Operations Foundation.
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The color-coding of wires on bombs is just so hilarious when you think about it. In most electrical applications, color-coding is specifically so repair people can tell what they're dealing with at a glance. In fact it's often regulated by code or actual law. Why would a bomb-maker even consider making it easy to disable?
Unless it's for story purposes, like it's a fake bomb, okay then sure. Or if it's to fool the heroes, "Aha! You've fallen for my trap! Those obvious wires outside all make the bomb go off instantly!"
A fail safe so they themeslves can debomb it in case the bomb is ever turned on them.
@@ankurito3746but then you need to assume the bomb maker is so forgetful he needs to stick to the “official” color codes because he can’t remember which color he chose to make thingy go boom boom.
Dude most people think that cables go one way and that's why onenis red and other black to charge car battery xD I'm not even joking.
just clip the RED wire!!
Lmao thats so true, working on anything with wiring on cars is "the manual said this was a brown wire with a gray tracer but this one is only bown, nope this is the wrong wire" and then an hour later you realize it WAS the right wire but the manual was for a different trim package
I totally get why this dude was an EOD Tech. His whole demeanor and personality is so calm while explaining and a few times, he purposely didn't go into detail about certain procedures/intel. Still maintains a level of professionalism. I like that.👍🏽
I'd find it a fun and rewarding job. I mean, fun as in the way I loved firefighting: you get to help others, you get adrenaline rushes, etc. I can't be sure about the items he didn't explain due to secrecy concerns, but I understand it and I'm sure some steps can be figured out all the same. It's like how understanding the operation of a nuclear bomb is relatively simple, but despite the information and schematics available out there, building an efficient device would take expertise, money, and materials. With just the latter you could certainly create something that produces a sufficient yield, but not several kilotons or beyond.
Disables a nuclear bomb while replying back to emails 😂😂
Yeah, I’d expect that it would take the kind of nerves of steel that air traffic controllers have. Couldn’t do that myself, even tho my hands are rock steady - I couldn’t handle the mental aspect of it.
Have you asked him out yet??
You need to bring this guy back. So awesome when your experts have such a demonstrable knowledge base and look at scenes realistically and give scores accordingly.
agreed, he was straight to business
I like this guy, he seems very
knowledgeable and professional, but also friendly and down to earth
He is so handsome as well
Not to mention he doesn't want to say too match. As we saw on the seat explosive he didn't tell us what is the second device or what it does because he doesn't want the wrong people to learn, it's truly the only professional in this videos he said only what was necessary or wide spread. As someone who doesn't know anything about bombs or how to create/disarm them I didn't learn anything from this guy. A true professional never shows how it's done
But he is comparing old movies to the current technologies which is weird
almost all EOD techs
@@lowendplayer4259 The physics are the same.
I love that the most realistic part of hurt locker was the eod flipping off the team haha
Oh it is 100% the most realistic part and how techs act on the daily
This would be to me one of the most scary professions.😬 A big thank you to our service members, as well as techs!
Made me think of the sappers in the mine fields in Ukraine.
This guy (and the sappers) are heroes and badasses.
I think alot put the scary out of their minds because you are either going to defuse the bomb or suddenly its not your issue
@@rkl233 4 real!
@@hansolowe19 100%
If this is the job they assigned me in the military, I'd be going AWOL. No chance.
I was a civilian bomb tech for 25 years for a large sheriffs office. Just like the military we do training at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama for IED recognition. A really useful procedure in any disruption whether you’re going hands on or remotely, is the acronym PIES. It stands for power supply, initiator, explosive, switch. If you remove anyone of these, the device will not function. I would explain this to students using a simple fire cracker as an example. The power supply would be someone lighting a match. The initiator would be moving the match to the fuse, the explosive would be the cylindrical portion of the fire cracker. and the switch would be the fuse. So, just like with this simple device, all the way up to the nuclear weapon, if you remove one component, the device simply won’t work. Great video.
You’re good at explaining this, thank you.
I've read that IED-guys are still rolling in laughter because of "Hurt Locker". 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats because they failed to understand the point of Hurt Locker. I mean, they should at least get it, when his team is discussing who would do the paperwork when they frag him.
As an EOD specialist I can tell you that the Hurt Locker was the first science fiction movie to win a ‘best picture’ Oscar.
@@springbloom5940you can’t polish a turd mate…
@@bob_the_bomb4508 I proudly support you opinion, sir. 👍💪
His knowledge on things that go boom is incredible, but the amount he brings up nukes makes me wonder exactly how often a nuke has almost gone off
there are a number of documented cases of nukes accidently being dropped and coming very close to going off
It’s something he learns about.
Read Command & Control, it’s scary how unsafe the early bombs were and that book only has access to the US records. Imagine how janky the Russian crap is.
Theres a phenomenal Veritasium video on that very subject, highly recommend it
Well, unfortunately there are nukes that have been “lost”. The US admits it lost 6 nukes that can’t be recovered but there’s probably more for various reasons whether it is strategic, a mistake, or perhaps even stolen. The other nuclear armed countries almost certainly have the same situation. I’m not an EOD but my buddy was and he can only say he knows how to properly disarm them if he has enough time but he can’t say anything. The most I got from is exactly what this gent said. It’s classified, but if you look up “ declassified recorded arrow incidents”, you can get an idea how many nukes went off by accident or were prevented.
I was a grunt in the Marines attached to an EOD unit. Everything he's saying is 100% accurate
Semper Fi brother.
i was a Doc that went out with the EOD guys a few times. SFMF
I like the fact that he actually used the 10 point scale. He didn't just give everything an 8 or above to be nice.
My dad was Navy EOD from 62-84. Always a hoot to watch James Bond movies and hokey TV shows involving bombs. Miss that time with my dad.
This has been one of the more interesting Insider expert react videos I've seen. Would love to see more stuff from this dude. Great insight without getting too specific for obvious reasons.
Blown Away,
The Lethal Weapon,.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
How can you possibly say Archer couldn’t disarm that bomb?! He was wearing his black turtleneck, that’s essentially an expert pass on all things special agent.
Archer: “First letter B”
Ray: “BRAVO!!”
Archer: “Thank you”
😂😂😂😂
"m as in Mancy"
🤣🤣
It's great when you get these professionals react to scenes! So much fun and education!
I would disagree with you I didn't learn anything from him only what is on the internet already, he doesn't speak a lot like the seat bomb he doesn't say what is the second device or what it does, he knows not only good people watch this videos he doesn't want to teach the bombers the methods so they know how to bypass them. In my opinion this is the worst inside video but the most professional person.
@@redflagy8You realize he can’t reveal a lot of information on how they work correct?
@@redflagy8He can’t show all his cards lol
@mauricemotors8207 in this series people go ham and show everything, don't get me wrong is nothing bad about him he is just not fitted for the role, let's say he is "too professional" for the video
my friend in college was an EOD tech. he told me that if there was an IED that he thought might go off in his face while disarming it, he would sit as close to it as possible and get as comfortable as possible, without any bomb blast gear. he told me he did this because he wanted to die rather than survive and be maimed if an IED went off while he was working on it. i could never tell if he was messing with us or not
As a tech equal parts truth equal parts joke
I would pay for a ticket to see Jay review the whole hurt locker movie
If there’s another one of these, would love to see ‘Executive Decision’ and ‘Goldfinger’ included. :)
Seconded!
I second that. Executive Decision is must. Hopefully they will do another video like this and include it. Or maybe add a scene from "24" with Jack Bauer would be cool.
Dude goldfinger is hilarious, bonds like ill search around the bomb for something doesnt see anything obvious, is like well i dont know how to do this, and at that second an expert comes in and flicks the off switch. Fuckin brilliant
And "Blown Away"
They had another technician review goldfinger in another bomb tech reviews movies video
When someone say, "I can't get into a details of disarming of this type of bomb," you know he knows things.
There was a video about a British Bomb Disposal member during WW2. He stated that once he got to the bomb the first thing he always do was that he sat on it before he began his work.
So in the event if the bomb went off he wouldn’t know about it.
That doesn’t even make sense… if he’s working on it with his face up to it he won’t know if it goes off then either. Not to mention why would he risk setting it off when it could’ve been disarmed?
@@RealNaisuCinemait was prolly a joke
@@user-hu8fn2jp5v not every blatantly dumb thing said online is a joke though
Oh man that MacGruber scene is great. "There's like a thousand wires in here! I'm like a three wire guy."
The best part of this was the number of times he said "without going into detail...".
Yes- learning from experts on these videos is great, but everyone has access to them and certain techniques and procedures must be kept under wraps.
For some reason it always pleases me when experts call out the Hurt Locker for how unrealistic it is. And I like the movie. But it's really annoying when people say, "oh this is so realistic". NO IT'S NOT!
Like spending two minutes to clean blood off the .50cal shells while they are getting killed by a sniper when anyone that has ever shot a rifle knows you can breach load the shells by hand one at a time straight into the chamber. That movie was crap.
As far as what they do as techs it’s not realistic at all but it does portray war pretty well especially in the early 2000s time
This expert communicates stuff I have no idea about in a way I feel like I understood better now, and in a way that was absolutely not condescending.
Have him back on please!
I love that he even avoids revealing certain details. 4:38 for example. Keep the integrity! Oorah!
I really enjoy the experts who are not afraid to really "clown" on the scenes. Way to go Master Tech Ly!
Dude looks like Explosive Gordon-Levitt
I disagree but I appreciate your wordplay
Yeah, I can see the similarity.
I love how this guy can’t believe he was going to give a Batman movie the most accurate score out of all of those clips. 😂
Of course Joseph-Gordon Levitt would give his movie the high score
Huh. You know, I’m just now seeing that likeness. Go figure, I guess.
Cool dude with great knowledge, love to see more episodes with him.
Thank you for ncluding M*A*S*H! you could do about 10 more videos with Jay considering how many bomb disposals there are in tv and film. Please do!
Truly useful and well-educated reviews. Thanks!
Amazing break down and extremely knowledgable I would love to hear him breakdown more
I love this guy. He seems so chill and he seems like a cool friend to have.
I like how he's brutally honest with criticisms. It's Hollywood, so it's going to be exaggerated. Probably done for entertainment purposes
I always like these videos the most when the expert is honest about what they really think. The "build a ditch" guy is also a favorite.
In hurt locker people don’t realize it was apart of the characters role , he didn’t care if he lived or died , everything was spot on in the movie .
@@Bbqluv7 what this EOD guy said was it's not how you're supposed to act if you're trying to defuse the bomb. Not many look that deep as you did
@@Bbqluv7 Retaining a death wish is a tragic state of mind. As described in the analysis of Hurt Locker, the consequences of reckless behavior are not limited to the individual experiencing an issue. Informing CO of facts, and only facts, may result in a life-saving CDE/MHE.
@@MrJlee93 clearly they didn’t look into as deeply but if they did they would recognize it’s psycho brilliance
This is one of my favourites, so detailed for the explanation and past experiences
Thankyou for your service
Kudos to this Navy guy first. He is a wonderful critique. I know WONDERFUL & CRITIQUE don't go together normally.
I salute his knowledge, his experience & his spot-on reviews of the scenes. Guys like these are a treasure for their nations.
Your comments where you say “I can’t talk about specifics” reminds me of talking to my dad. He’s a retired CWO5 nuke and I asked many questions growing up, I got used to hearing he couldn’t talk about it. Which I still hear sometimes 😂 Although he also tells me that about when he was a submariner too because he was on the NR-1
What a guy! Smart, handsome, funny, intelligent and totally professional.
I love how the only reason he gave The Hurt Locker a 1 was because of the "communication" with the others.
And that's just being generous.
Great review, and reviewer! Please have this gentleman back!
This is the best of the series. And I dare say it will never be topped. Bravo.
Amazing commentary. And thank you for your service sir.
The episode of MASH where they bring in a wounded soldier and he has a live mortar in his body is one of the really great episodes
of MASH. Lets not even talk about the episode Death Takes A Holiday. That is one of the best episodes in television history.
I worked with a Navy EOD tech. My favorite story was when he was swimming in extremely murky water with 0 visibility looking for a naval mine. He actualy swam into it on accident. Bonk! The mine "counted" him. Apparently naval mines can count the number of ships that pass it so that it can skip an escort and take out the capital ship in a convoy.
EOD is insane. Those guys are wild. Met a few, all were chill laid back and great with one liners. Imagien it takes that to be good at this.
I love your commentary. Thank you for this
When i was in the army i worked as a blackhawk mechanic. To get my job you needed at least a 75 on the ASVAB. My AIT was 18 weeks long. Its not an easy job, very easy to fail out of. If you failed then chances are youre new MOS was gonna be a cook. When an EOD guy fails, they usually go into my blackhawk mechanic job. Thats how difficult EOD is.
I hate military abbreviations
So it goes cook, Blackhawk mechanic, then EOD
@@massivetwat5515Lmao there were quite a few of em here, even for me. Reading your comment before reading your name though was the best decision I could've made 🤣 well played, sir. Well played.
@@Mr_Jish The branch I was in was trying to move away from acronyms because it got to the point everything was an acronym and you might know what the person was referring to, but might forget what it stood for. Also not good during public relations, and other branches might use the same acronym for something different.
I'm not sure if they succeeded, but I've certainly tried to avoid them in my civilian career. You spend more time telling people who don't know what it stands for than if you just used plain language in the first place.
I enlisted as an EOD (89D), unfortunately failed the AIT. Reclassed to Infantry (11B). Glad it worked out, EOD is awesome but infantry is what i really wanted to do
I would like to see him review the movies backdraft and blown away. He seems very insightful and knowledgeable
It's funny when Hurt Locker gets such a low score and Batman got a 9. Who woulda thunk? lol
Also +10 for MacGruber reference.
I am calling my fake lawyer and suing this guy because I dropped my phone laughing from the dry delivery of “that blast wave would have killed a lesser man… not John Rambo.”
Yo I like this guy BRING HIM BACK FOR ANOTHER ONE! I’m a Vet too and his lingo and posture brings back so many memories. You can 100% tell he knew his sh*t!
Great video! This guy was so funny and knowledgeable
This guy and this video were both fantastic
One of the best series on RUclips
I was a grunt, and can say with out hesitation that EOD, and Combat Engineers are total BADASSES
🤘🏽🇺🇸💣
EOD are a special breed.
Worked with these guys for 3 years at EODMU-1 very chill and professional dudes.
This is why Hollywood needs the right people teaching
I'm not sure which side of cause and effect this is, but the fact that he scores these more harshly than others in this video format really drives home the seriousness of his job...
I kept trying to hit the like button again… this is the best series 😂
One of the best 'expert rates these scenes in movies' videos.
I absolutely love that my man said Batman just grabbing it and running away was the best ideal of Navy EOD is perfect. But yea he died. Saved lots of lives though. You sir are my Batman.
This guy's confidence and knowledge is so dang attractive.
So Mr Jay Ly.... you broke the cardinal rule about EOD, appearing on film. ;-) I expect a beer if I ever meet you IRL.
Great video btw, spot on.
If you bring him back, get him to react to Goldfinger. I'd love to see him react to both that weird nuclear bomb and the technician's one button press refusal.
I would like to see you critique Elementary 4x24 at the beginning when Sherlock grabs the device and rips it away from the explosive containers. When Joan says he didn’t pick a wire Sherlock makes a pun about how Hollywood movies get [bomb disposal] wrong. In Castle he did something similar at the end of 3x17 when he grabs the big bundle of wires and rips them all out.
For some reason, I wanted to be an EOD tech now. Life threathening specialization, but worthy profession! Kudos to all EOD tech!
Man, I really like this guy. I have found some of the coolest cats through these Insider videos. Nicholas Irving, Mitch Wiuff, Laura Zerra, and now Lay Ly make my list of favs. Hope they have this guy on more.
Jay is 100% the real-deal and hero as an EOD expert and is a class-act including his post-military career. Loved the laughs he created and how he also protected information that we as the general public don't need to know in order to keep protecting our country and our military ... including service members like my kids.
Thanks for your kind words and support, @abigailgmanning 🙏🏽🇺🇸
I have experience through work in a similar field, portable x-ray system and l alway love how on TV shows the EOD guys walk around with x-ray generators and never x-ray anything.
As a kid I stupidly believed that the suit of the bomb squad protected them from the bomb explosions.
Edit: To be clear, I assumed bomb suits were invincible Armor. I thought of course they were invincible or else who would be dumb enough to go near the bomb. I now understand their real use case
"Shall we disarm it or wanna just put the suit on and face-tank the bomb?" xD
A lot of adults still do lol
@@patrickbo2045not too far off actually lol sometimes if it was in a non populated area, not very large yield or was just incredibly complicated, they would often do what's called "detonate in place" where they just get everyone to a safe distance and deliberately set it off
Not always possible but yeah "just set it off" is actually quite a common solution lol
Well, this is what google says: A bomb suit, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) suit or a blast suit is a heavy suit of body armor designed to withstand the pressure generated by a bomb and any fragments the bomb may produce.
@@SamuelKacerikohyeah, the suit will survive no prob. The person inside the suit? Ehhhhhhh
The knowledge this guy has definitely has him on a list for the rest of his life lol
I guess a chill vibe is probably pretty standard issue with EOD people, but dang he is CALM
This guy owes all the cases of beer for this video.
please bring him back!!! We love Jay Ly
I remember a movie called “American Soldiers” where in IED was hidden in a dog’s body on the street, and they cleared the street then shot it with a 50 Cal. I don’t know how accurate that is. The same movie also had two soldiers on foot spying, a car bomb, getting away from it, and another car presumably setting it off by tripping a motion sensor. Could you guys cover that movie sometime?
This guy and the sub commander are my favorite experts so far.
I've heard about it, but I have never seen it, the BBC had a series in the late 60's called "Danger, UXB" (Unexploded Bomb) and it was about bomb disposal in WW-2 London. They found a bomb with a time delay fuze. They solved the problem by putting clay around the clock and filling it with liquid oxygen, freezing it. Also to save any info during the disarming process, the man on the bomb had a field phone connected to his partner behind cover. He would call out what he was seeing and what he was going to do and the man on the other end of the phone would record it in his note book. He would say, "I see a red, a brown and a yellow wire, I"m going to cut the yellow wire now", and a moment later it goes off. But his partner has the procedure he used up to cutting the yellow wire written down. So next time we know DO NOT CUT THE YELLOW WIRE.
amazing how rambo got it more right than most majority of them
I am a big fan of this series, I like how some of the experts speak with great confidence on their subjects but some come across as smarmy. This is the first expert I'd like to have a beer with, he has such a chill attitude, like he was a surfer in a previous life.
If you ever see me in the wild, I’ll gladly take you up on that beer 🤙🏽
Here's some EOD movies that were overlooked, like;
24.
BLOWN AWAY.
BOYS FROM COMPANY C.
BROKEN ARROW.
CASTLE; COUNTDOWN.
DEMOLITION MAN.
DIE HARD 3.
EXECUTIVE DECISION.
GET SMART.
HOGAN'S HEROES; A KLINK, A BOMB, AND A SHORT FUSE.
JUGGERNAUT.
LETHAL WEAPON 2-3.
LIVE WIRE.
MACGUYVER.
MASH; THE ARMY-NAVY GAME.
NCIS; TILL DEATH DO US PART.
THE PEACEMAKERS.
REDS 2.
THE ROCK.
SEA PATROL; ONE PERFECT DAY.
SHOCK WAVE.
THE SPECIALIST.
THUNDERBALL.
THE X-FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE.
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Keep up the great work Insider!
Danger UXB was a eighties series about a bomb disposal unit during the blitz would be fun to see what he thought about that.
It was the 1970s…but every incident was based on a real one.
"We would clown on that movie" 90% of them joined becasue of that movie I bet hahaha
Get this guy to do the toilet bomb from Lethal Weapon 2
It's been done before though.. 😢
@@Shaz-Daz I must see it
The principle is sound. There was a WWII German fuse called a ‘Y’ fuse which was attacked by pouring liquid oxygen onto the bomb to freeze the capacitor. Later versions of this technique use liquid nitrogen. So freezing a battery is an option. The rest of the scene? Not so much… :)
You can see more realistic examples of the technique in an episode of ‘Danger UXB’ and also in the movie ‘The English Patient’.
oh, man, I love this guy!
Fun vid review, I graduated from HDS in 2010. If you go back a watch the opening screen of Hurt Locker the radio pack on the bot disappeared but then returned.
This was interesting. Thank you. The only upset is that I was hoping that the movie "Juggernaut" (1974) would make an appearance. It is about agroup of military EOD disarming a number of bombs in a ship.
I like seeing pros unafraid of giving a 0/10 for these videos, especially for more serious subjects. Last thing we need is more people saying "Don't worry, I seen this on RUclips." and getting hurt, hurting someone else, or worse.
Gotta love it when Rambo gets an 8/10 and MacGruber is his favorite of all time.
Great video!
My one and only EOD story: Walking out of the base gym I see a bumper sticker on a car that read: EOD. If I am running, you should be running.
I love when these people give a bunch of low scores, really makes the high scores that much more entertaining to listen about.
Rambo, Batman, and McGruber.... i'll be an EOD tech in no time.
Former 13b20 from 2012-2020( Artilleryman) the vbied scene in the hurt locker would be devastating. A standard 3 square HE weighs 95ib a piece with around a 75 meter initial radius kill radius. They’re usually filled with composition B and have around 15ib of explosive charge. There was at least 6-8 rounds in that trunk.
I really want him to rate MacGyver on his bonb disposal techniques. Richard Dean Anderson that is 😂😂😂
You know the guy is great when he doesn't reveal certain aspects of tools they use
Probably doesn't want to end up in federal prison; classified information is still classified even after you leave the service.
Finally a real expert
I like how he calls it as he sees it and throws out 0s and 1s for ratings. A lot of the folks in these segments are trying to be charitable and nice and won't even go below a 5 or 6 for something completely unrealistic.
Not necessarily two detonators, a collapsible circuit can be done with just one, there's no robot when the movie was set, the movie is based on real life and although Hurt Locker doesn't necessarily seem like it. The robot scene was line of sight and couldn't be done from inside a vehicle because of the remote, it was a prototype hence they were where the robot could be controlled from without interference.