@@nashvillain171 And your name isn't Nash and you are not a villain. Just kidding buddy. However what is the difference? If something visually is acting like a fluid... Because of speed and heat transference that, even temporarily, breaks it's normal bonding structure...said material can momentarily act like a fluid instead of a solid. Take body armor and tank armor for instance...when hit with a high speed round heat is caused and it penetrates said armor due to heat caused by speed. Which is what this looks like in this video.
.. before delivering the few finishing touches on the global thermonuclear apocalypse, our employees are required to wear protective goggles and hazmat suits. safety is paramount. operations are remotely controlled from a hardened bunker. all possibilities are planned for (I like this one a lot btw, sounds so authoritatively and positively deterministic, not even a supreme god would dare say it). specialized emergency response teams stand by (welp, at least one of those guys is happy to have a job). happy end of the world. all vault-admitted personnel might find the slow motion videos of scientific value, and perhaps even enjoyable in the centuries to come ..
The most connected generation you are not. That was air drop weapon. Notice the angle of attack was 45 degrees just like an air drop or cruise missle. The trigger was obviously ground contact burst. The is normally done with radar. But, I'm sure a contact switch is also used. Notice the tunnel to collect the classified debris. A lot has to happen in 1ms. Obviously the core was removed. Notice the video is cut before the core is detonated. These are old weapons that change with time.
"All possibilities are prepared for" I wonder if that also includes the possibility that they accidentally used an armed thermonuclear warhead instead of a test unit
Tests after the invention of high speed camera: The object was oblirated on impact. Tests before the invention of high speed camera: The object disappeared, we have no idea where it went.
Ummm... No. You see, unlike yourself, engineers use their brain and they already knew what would happen from a high speed impact. And unlike you they already planned for the effects. Because, unlike you, they don't need a camera to figure it out...
Meanwhile, an object, displaced through time, reappears in the Hadron large collider. " Oh, dear", said the object " I appear to have developed a momentary surge of self awareness!" "Don't worry" said the Collider " It never lasts."
I always love seeing these kinds of tests because you just watch the object getting hit by the rocket sled evaporate on the high speed. Hardened steel parts and you get to watch it turn to powder before the force of the impact can even propagate down the rocket body.
@@iceman27406 you don't need testing to answer this question - of course an impact cannot set off a nuclear bomb - it is too complicated. I mean plutonium bomb of course.
@@leouvarov8982 i think the issue is.. can a catastrophic failure set off the explosive charges that WOULD make a Pu (implosion) bomb go off. Sounds like it wouldn't but I don't think you can be too safe when dealing with thermonuclear weapons.
New York Times study : "If the sphere of explosive were set offby an accident, it would not explode uniformly and would not compress the plutonium enough to cause a nucleardetonation. But it might set off a fast chain reaction short of a full-scaleexplosion - a reaction that would generate deadly radiation and spread radioactive debris." Me : So basically if it was set off by impact it would be far less effective?? This explanation makes the most sense to me. Nukes are far more efficient when set off in a controlled timed manner.
Just because you're pushing a wave of pressure ahead of you doesn't necessarily mean you've broken the sound barrier. The current land speed record (341 m/s) didn't even pass it; you have to be in the air to go that speed.
rowgli I'm not sure that's right. The SSC is listed as going 341 m/s, and the sound barrier is 343 m/s. It varies depending on altitude, temperature, humidity, etc, but I didn't think it had been broken on land. Even if I'm wrong about that, though, my original point stands, which is that a pressure wave doesn't necessarily equal having broken the sound barrier, even though if you've broken it you will always produce a pressure wave
For those wondering if they people onboard the Titan submarine felt any pain when it imploded: Imagine getting hit by one of these things from every side whilst being completely oblivious to the fact that they are coming towards you...
Yeah, the sub imploded so fast their brains weren't able to process the pain they felt, or the things they saw. From their perspective they just got snapped out of existence
It’s cool you can see the supersonic shockwave from the sled on the top down view right before impact. Gives you a sense on how fast it is going before impact.
Yup. That’s called a linear optical distortion, or LOD. These are also often visible during rocket launches - they were very apparent on long range shots of the space shuttle. 🙂
If Wile E. Coyote had pushed the button, the rocket sled would loop around and destroy the blockhouse leaving a scorched black Wile E. Coyote standing in the rubble.
Nike missiles have been around long before the shoe company existed, in an era when the average person would've known enough about Roman mythology to understand where the name derived.
tetrabromobisphenol **rolls eyes** Well aren't you just special. I cannot thank you enough for saving the day with your un-needed explanation of the origin of Nike.
Jon Doe safe as in they only blow up when they want them too. No matter what. Like in the 50s when the airforce “lost” a nuke out of a plane and it crashed into someone’s paddock and only one safety device stopped it blowing up and killing American civilians.
look up nuclear broken arrow events. We've lost literally dozens of nuclear bombs over the years, quite a few were never recovered because the uranium and plutonium is so dense it causes the bombs to burrow on the ocean floor.
I can't get enough of watching super high speed, ultra slow motion impacts. The objects virtually fold in on themselves and vaporise before they even get a chance to move backwards. Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
I love how after all these years and tests, the answer to "So what do we put at the other end?" is still, "Dirt. Well, and a culvert too. But mostly dirt."
I have always been fascinated by the ultra slow motion camera footage of the missile disintegration as it and the hardened object converge! From being a high precision, meticulously constructed missile to becoming dust and fragmentation faster than the human mind can observe! I would be very interested in seeing the same test carried out with the missile warhead fitted and armed.
Do you want to be able to use the test site again..? Because scattering a kilo of so of refined nuclear weapons grade material around the area will render the site inhospitable to life for a very long time.. and that's assuming some freak condition doesn't cause a detonation upon impact, in which case even the "hardened bunker" won't save them..
@@GenoLoma Somewhat obviously, I wasn't referring to them testing nuclear missiles and warheads, only conventional types! It being somewhat obvious, I didn't think it needed elaborating...
@@felixcat9318 these high-speed tests are _specifically_ designed to test the safety of nuclear warheads, as stated in the video.. So no, it's not 'obvious'.. I think you're confused here mate.
So if I understand correctly, this test is to ensure the safety of the nuclear arsenal by proving the fuzing doesn't misfire during a super sonic impact? This video keeps saying that by doing this test it ensures safety, but never explained how it goes about doing so. Thats just what ive gathered from comments.
You're correct. The test is intended to validate the design of the electronic systems inside the warhead and ensure that it doesn't detonate unexpectedly when subjected to impact/shock, as would happen during a bomber crash or an enemy attack on a nuclear stockpile facility.
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1:20 The most impressive part is how clean the pavement is around that track! Normal highway shoulders are proven to have considerable amounts of harvestable platinum dust on them, and we still can't get the government to use some of that squanderable income on some sweeper trucks.
@@stevebanning902 As I recall, I think that's about the rate of deposition per car. Now imagine there are more cars on that highway than yours. By the way, this has been tested on other channels, and it was found that there were profitable levels of harvestable platinum on road shoulders, at industrial-mining levels. Eventually, this will happen, whether or not you can do simple math.
One of the most impressive pieces of footage. You can see the supersonic shockwave, distorting the dirt below the rocket under test, then you can quite visibly see the shockwave slightly in front of the test rocket. I don’t know what speed impact was at, but quite the amazing display of physics, ultra high speed cameras, capturing very high definition footage, perfect timing, and extremely good technology all at the same time on the same video. This tickles every single nerve in my geek sensors. If you guys are ever looking for an extra electronic engineer, with a good background in physics, let me know. Any footage of the aftermath? I want to see what those pieces of debris looked like post-impact.
I love how the sled is going so fast you cant even see it. Its huge. That is so cool. I want to ride that thing from the east to west coast. I don't know the math but I bet its fast and people would pay a lot to save time.
One word: Hyperloop. Not east to west coast though. Merely S.F. L.A., because that's where there's the highest concentration of people with more money then they know what to do with.
Years ago a very close friend of mine who worked for NASA invited me to a destructive test of the shuttle main engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. From about a mile away I was able to observe the destruction of what was a shuttle engine that was bolted down in a Saturn V rocket stand. It was the most amazing thing I've EVER witnessed! Incidentally, he was the one who told me (after promising my silence) that some of the astronauts in the shuttle Challenger explosion actually were alive when the crew capsule hit the water. Recently that information was made public.
I've seen them do test like this out of China lake naval weapons testing center in California Mojave desert. It's a lot more impressive in person. The Earth literally shakes for miles away when they test one of these. I love the feeling.
We used to hear the "SNORT" track on occasion out in Ridgecrest (along with bombs, strafing runs, etc.). I lived out there from the spring of '80 until the fall of '91, and worked as a contractor (Comarco) at a bunch of different sites including the airfield. Now I work for the DOE in NM. Cool stuff!
The rocket was going at several times the speed of sound; you can see the Mach cone on the ground at 2:03. With some geometry you could figure it out pretty precisely, but it looks like 20° or so, or about Mach 3.
The sensors embedded in the dummy load transmit data at every point in time of the impact. By analyzing the movement of things and the exact way they crush, they can confirm whether a system functions properly. Things like whether the signal to dentonate is triggered, which if the other internal signals are triggering, the exact way the body crushes, and so forth. For testing like this, the ram on the sled can be swapped out to simulate different angles of impact, and the rocket motors and acceleration distance can be varied to simulate different drop heights. You only want nukes to go off exactly when you want them to. Testing like this ensures that will be the case even if the shell is dropped by accident due to human error, or a bomber is blasted out of the sky with a full payload by anti-aircraft armaments, or some other catastrophic failure occurs.
Mentioned by a few post up - kylesenior It's used to verify the contact fuzes on nuclear weapons are functioning correctly. Warheads travelling at the speed of sound (or even faster) have a very small amount of time to set off before they slam into the ground and disintegrate.
This brings to mind the tremendous G-forces that can be exerted on a person involved in a traffic or airplane crash. One particular vulnerable part of the body is the brain. A "Deceleration Brain Injury" is the term used to describe the bruising that the front part of the brain can get when such a hard deceleration causes the front part of the brain to impact the inside of the skull. Fatal if not permanent brain damage can easily result. Immediate medical attention is required.
Actually the Watermelon Base is at the base of the 'Manzano' Apple Mountains, the Sandia Mountains are just across the freeway to the north. I grew up in the Duke City in the Land of Enchantment....Albuquerque New Mexico...I know all about Sandia and Kirkland Airforce base....testing the sound barrier in the 60's
@@RIXRADvidz If you "know all about..." then you'd know it's spelled "Kirtland" and not "Kirkland." You'd also know that the Air Force Base was named after Roy C. Kirtland.
Watermelons are dangerous. - Every see a watermelon for sale in a movie theater? - Does McDonalds, the go-to family destination for decades, serve watermelon? - Can you even get watermelon at, say - a gas station? - Is watermelon for sale at any gun or ammunition shops? "People who underestimate watermelon - probably do not have watermelon at home." Over 90% of people in the U.S. do not now have watermelon in the home. Food for thought. ...
@@saswatmishra5644 I could - your sarcastic point was the fact that nukes are inherently dangerous to all of humanity and "lol, 'safe and secure'." But oh boy are they "safe and secure" (I'm also using sarcasm here) now compared to the utter shitshow that was the 50's - 90's. Serious recommendation on that book - Schlosser's 'Command and Control' is a fantastic read about how many times the world has almost been accidentally annihilated.
@@tangoprime I know, I haven't read the book, but, I watch the infographics show and have some info from some other sources I know how "clean" those global superpowers are.
I'm so glad our country only focuses on the important things like maintaining a massive nuclear arsenal. I love the Military Industrial Complexes' presence on social media too, so hip!
It's used to verify the contact fuzes on nuclear weapons are functioning correctly. Warheads travelling at the speed of sound (or even faster) have a very small amount of time to set off before they slam into the ground and disintegrate.
That sounds convincing to the layman, but that's completely wrong. The purpose of this test is to ensure that there is no way that a supersonic impact can accidently (or prematurely) detonate the fission primary. The fuzing on all missiles, nuclear or not, is done with radar altimeters/proximity sensors. There is no need to set up such an expensive test to prove the efficacy of the fuzing system. There is, on the other hand, plenty of geopolitical reasons to ensure that a nuke doesn't go off if e.g. the bomb rack on a a B1B fails and the munition falls on friendly territory.
That was lovely. Now, instead of having absolutely no idea what this was, I have ALMOST absolutely no idea what this was, or how this makes the US nuke stockpile safer. Maybe next time you hire someone from the private sector to produce a video that communicates actual useful information to the viewer.
I think that impact angle ( simulated ) plus a very high mach - would be the representation of an icbm warhead inbound on a ballistic trajectory....whose internal instrumentation, presumably, was being tested to ensure that it would detect the ground rushing up to it, in time, for it to fuse and detonate the weapon in a simulated ground-burst fashion. you see - icbm warheads come in at mach v. high ( circa 20 I'd estimate given that orbital velocity is circa mach 25 ) but with the air-drag / friction-drag of the atmosphere that would have to reduce a bit....and I reckon it's likely that by the time it reached the ground it could well be about mach 8 or 9, therefore....and as other comments, here, state..the rocket sled speed was to be around 8.6 mach. lastly an air-dropped weapon's terminal velocity due to simply gravity ( from any height that an air-breathing engine'd plane ( or it's own engine if a cruise missile which btw operates at low level so is not relevant here ).....would not be anywhere near the speed of this sled. have a look at icbm warhead reentry videos to see how fast they come in - and the speed is : screamingly fast .... ! have a good one...
Other nations: Test there bomb designs by dropping them on concrete surfaces." Usa: "Builds a mock city, attaches it to a sled, attaches rockets to the sled, builds giant track, sends the sled flying into the bomb."
Yes, because you can record far more data and higher-quality data like ultra high-speed high-definition video from a reverse impact test of a munition because, as they explained in the video, mounting the munition itself statically allows you to connect the sensors to a computer recording system housed in a hardened protected shelter nearby. This method is more complex than a classic munition drop test from an aircraft but it yields way more useful information about the device being tested so it allows the munitions you're developing to be way safer when they're being transported short and long distances by aircraft or train and also while being regularly serviced, maintained, and also while sitting in storage. Accidents happen all the time, and there have been hundreds of nuclear weapons transportation accidents in the past, many of which very nearly destroyed millions of civilians in several countries. One time two Megaton-class nuclear bombs were accidentally partially-armed and dropped from a B-52 bomber over South Carolina when the plane broke up in the air from a mechanical failure. Only one of the five safety systems in the bombs didn't get bypassed in the bombs' descent and impact of the ground. If it weren't for accurate and detailed munitions safety testing and engineering of failsafe's in the bombs prior to their deployment and transportation in aircraft, South Carolina would be an inhospitable, radioactive crater filled with millions of civilian skeletons today.
Not sure what the point of the test is? To see if slamming an object into the tip of a nuclear missile cause it to exploded/get destroyed? Feel like that’s an easy “yes”.
I wonder if they have to make a test for every degree of impact angle! This one was obviously 45 degrees , so there are only 89 tests left to perform !
The most difficult thing about designing nuclear weapons is not how to make the detonate when you want them to. It is keeping them from detonating when you don't want them to.
The cables are just lifting it. The thing is that at these speeds, things disintegrate rather than transfer inertia. And at orbital velocities, you can see speeds above the speed of sound in the materials involved, so that there is not real energy transfer between the colliding object. They pass through each other, stay in roughly the same shape and orbit except they are now two slowly dissipating clouds of debris rather than a billion dollar spy satellite and a bucket of screws.
You see that steel test stand holding the "test unit"? (0:53 point) I ask. What would be the result if you attached an aircraft wing (partial) to the rocket sled, ran it up to about 400 knts and crashed the wing into that steel structure? Would the aluminum wing cut the steel structure?
I seen somewhere when I was younger, test being done with reinforced nuclear containers on a flatbed trailer and one of these rocket sleds being fired at it but I can’t seem to find any footage of it
“Lets take a sled” “Alright” “And make it go fast” “Good idea” “REALLY fast” “Wait no” “Like lets put a ROCKET on it” “No Jim thats a bad idea” “And then lets SMASH it” “NO JIM”
That's really impressive. I was surprised at 2:17 where the air pressure from the sled peeled off the 3rd centerline sticker on the test weapon, ahead of the sled's impact. Right about when the sled is demolishing the 1st centerline sticker. I understand exactly what happened, I just underestimated the power of the displaced air. ... Or the sticker's glue didn't stick right on the shiny metal. Either way.
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I did not see any "Do not try this at home" warning. Finally something fun I can do at home
Same,I need an extra 1 million dollar rocket and extremely dangerous fuel first tho
@@asthmasith8638 GoFundMe???
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Film it in landscape mode please.
@@asthmasith8638 if you think that rocket only cost one mil your seriously trippin
I've seen a ton of high speed footage over the years but it still amazes me how, under high deceleration, solid matter tends to behave like a fluid.
Dust to dust.
As Bruce Lee said..
Be like water my friend.
That’s because it’s not solid anymore
It doesn't tend to behave like a fluid; it appears to behave like a fluid. Two very different things.
@@nashvillain171 And your name isn't Nash and you are not a villain.
Just kidding buddy.
However what is the difference?
If something visually is acting like a fluid...
Because of speed and heat transference that, even temporarily, breaks it's normal bonding structure...said material can momentarily act like a fluid instead of a solid. Take body armor and tank armor for instance...when hit with a high speed round heat is caused and it penetrates said armor due to heat caused by speed.
Which is what this looks like in this video.
The sled was accelerated to such a high speed that it managed to generate it's own Shockwave which was visible on the ground right before impact.
Noticed that too. Thats its own little sonic boom.
It looks more just like a light
I went back amd looked again. How cool!
I twas going over the speed of sound so of course..
And some people still claim the USA doesn't have a high speed rail system.
The problem is our high speed rail has a tendency to crush the passengers due to G-forces.
Why is this not top comment?
High speed trains are for countries that can’t win world wars. In ‘Merica, we just stick rockets onto the rails.
Nico D. Sun we have high speed everything
@@cmj199318 you know, we also have cannons that fire supersonic indoors only about a mile away from this sled track
"Assuring we can end the world in a safe and reliable manner, we are Sandia..'
.. before delivering the few finishing touches on the global thermonuclear apocalypse, our employees are required to wear protective goggles and hazmat suits. safety is paramount. operations are remotely controlled from a hardened bunker. all possibilities are planned for (I like this one a lot btw, sounds so authoritatively and positively deterministic, not even a supreme god would dare say it). specialized emergency response teams stand by (welp, at least one of those guys is happy to have a job). happy end of the world. all vault-admitted personnel might find the slow motion videos of scientific value, and perhaps even enjoyable in the centuries to come ..
@Semper Fi Who told you to believe that? Semper usually means knuckle draggers that cannot think for themselves.
If nobody survives, nobody can report about it
I was reading this while the vid started and when i finished reading the bomb exploded and it was epic, reminded me of the cod messages when u die
That's not funny
I am so impressed about the safety of the nuclear missiles that I decided to buy a dozen of them.
I feel like this video told us absolutely nothing about what was actually being tested.
It's like listening to someone trying to sell you on an ICO.
I strongly agree.
Yep.
The most connected generation you are not. That was air drop weapon. Notice the angle of attack was 45 degrees just like an air drop or cruise missle. The trigger was obviously ground contact burst. The is normally done with radar. But, I'm sure a contact switch is also used. Notice the tunnel to collect the classified debris. A lot has to happen in 1ms. Obviously the core was removed. Notice the video is cut before the core is detonated. These are old weapons that change with time.
NathansHVAC thank you..... ugh.....
This is also a way of test ing the “fail safe” of the trigger if it is ever dropped without arming.
You think they're gonna give the classified info on RUclips?
Her voice... "Welcome to the Black Mesa Research facility..."
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Its funny, before reading your comment, I thought I knew her somewhere......
Wow, no joke.
"All possibilities are prepared for"
I wonder if that also includes the possibility that they accidentally used an armed thermonuclear warhead instead of a test unit
And how would that would prevent the massive retalatory strike from our subs, icbms and bombers,
@Waxel Punkt. It's to ensure that there will be no accidental detonation *in case of* impact.
“Well Frank, that can’t be good”
I wonder if a subsequent test purposely used a live thermonuclear warhead.
I feel like this would be the sort of thing I might do.
Tests after the invention of high speed camera: The object was oblirated on impact.
Tests before the invention of high speed camera: The object disappeared, we have no idea where it went.
We are breathing the object, smells pretty weird.
*obliterated Gotta include that _te_ sport.
@@craigcorson3036 I was going to point it out... you beat me to it. curse you...
Ummm... No. You see, unlike yourself, engineers use their brain and they already knew what would happen from a high speed impact. And unlike you they already planned for the effects. Because, unlike you, they don't need a camera to figure it out...
Meanwhile, an object, displaced through time, reappears in the Hadron large collider.
" Oh, dear", said the object " I appear to have developed a momentary surge of self awareness!"
"Don't worry" said the Collider " It never lasts."
This is exactly how I park my car at work every morning :D
Must be an old volvo
Lmao
LOL
Same 😎🤟
Wow didn't realize you're still Alive
I always love seeing these kinds of tests because you just watch the object getting hit by the rocket sled evaporate on the high speed. Hardened steel parts and you get to watch it turn to powder before the force of the impact can even propagate down the rocket body.
Close to the magnitude of a mom slap
My Mom slapped harder than that. I just woke up and I'm 48. :0.
We must have had the same mom.
David Cavanaugh ☹️ 👍 ❤️ so true.....
@@builtnotboughtmadeinphilip3955 I don't, but I miss my mom.
Lol... but it’s true
Incoming enemy building spotted at 32 degrees sir!
- position the missile!
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Hahahahahahaahahahahaa
Lol
Hahahaha... Took me a second, but that's funny
*"building*, sir?"
I'm so glad the RUclips experts are out in full force on this video.
What did you do at work today hunnie?
I blew up millions of dollars of stuff in fractions of a second.
You guys have some of the coolest jobs ever.
Very cool. 1 second of fun followed by weeks of math and data analysis.
Said no wife ever
@@VoidHalo Also preceded by months of previous data analysis and application
and you pay for it
That’s why I love destructive testing
Cool explosion, but a completely useless video due to lack of an explanation.
what dont you understand? they are testing to make sure that impacts cant set off a nuclear weapon.
@@iceman27406 you don't need testing to answer this question - of course an impact cannot set off a nuclear bomb - it is too complicated. I mean plutonium bomb of course.
@@leouvarov8982 i think the issue is.. can a catastrophic failure set off the explosive charges that WOULD make a Pu (implosion) bomb go off. Sounds like it wouldn't but I don't think you can be too safe when dealing with thermonuclear weapons.
New York Times study : "If the sphere of explosive were set offby an accident, it would not explode uniformly and would not compress the plutonium enough to cause a nucleardetonation. But it might set off a fast chain reaction short of a full-scaleexplosion - a reaction that would generate deadly radiation and spread radioactive debris."
Me : So basically if it was set off by impact it would be far less effective?? This explanation makes the most sense to me. Nukes are far more efficient when set off in a controlled timed manner.
@@leouvarov8982 You wouldn't say "of course it can't" if you had done your homework.
So how many times have you replayed this video so far ... I love how clear the slo-mo is
How can we both be C Smith
@@bigredc222 Hmmm ....
@@csmith9684 I just noticed, you use all capital letters, can that be all it takes to use the same name?
I'm going to edit this comment so that we confuse the audience
Just make sure you have your camera blanked, lol you never know who is watching you watching videos!
Same
Same
Everything come out ok?
@@chikkenbonz 😂😂😂
crazy how you can see the air pressure wave just in front of the sled as it makes impact
Ya!! that was so cool!!
Yet no breaking the sound barrier noises at all ?
Just because you're pushing a wave of pressure ahead of you doesn't necessarily mean you've broken the sound barrier. The current land speed record (341 m/s) didn't even pass it; you have to be in the air to go that speed.
Peter Nelson Are you talking about Thrust SSC? It definitely broke the sound barrier, not by much.
rowgli I'm not sure that's right. The SSC is listed as going 341 m/s, and the sound barrier is 343 m/s. It varies depending on altitude, temperature, humidity, etc, but I didn't think it had been broken on land. Even if I'm wrong about that, though, my original point stands, which is that a pressure wave doesn't necessarily equal having broken the sound barrier, even though if you've broken it you will always produce a pressure wave
For those wondering if they people onboard the Titan submarine felt any pain when it imploded:
Imagine getting hit by one of these things from every side whilst being completely oblivious to the fact that they are coming towards you...
Yeah, the sub imploded so fast their brains weren't able to process the pain they felt, or the things they saw. From their perspective they just got snapped out of existence
I really hope you guys upload more high speed sled impacts. Absolutely fascinating to watch.
Pretty much all are highly classified.
"And reliability". When it comes to incinerating your enemy, quality is everything.
Great nuke, went off without a problem and destroyed half of my country. 10/10 would get nuked by this again.
I'm glad you understand.
It is indeed. An unreliable arsenal is not a convincing threat, it would invite a first strike.
Either that, or they do it to us.
If you'd rather die for other foreign countries, be my guest.
TheRantingCabby actually, yes
For those who dunno what they are testing, it's simulating an air to ground missile impacting the ground.
Why? And what does that have to do with nuclear stock pile saftey?
@@ubahfly5409 ....to make sure that the fusing mechanism works; it's not about safety
I remember Myth Busters using this facility to obliterate a car. RIP Grant Imohara.
They obliterated a Concrete Mixer Truck which was full of dried concrete.
@@walker-snow Yep. Saw that. There was nothing left but the hole.
wait, grant is ded? how?
@@spanishinquisition4420 Brain Aneurysm. July 30th 2020
@@spanishinquisition4420 brain got too big. poor guy.
It’s cool you can see the supersonic shockwave from the sled on the top down view right before impact. Gives you a sense on how fast it is going before impact.
I still don't know what they were testing. I dig explosions though.
2:20
In the top left, you can see the atmospheric wave ahead of the impactor, that is so cool
The force is strong with this sled
Yup. That’s called a linear optical distortion, or LOD. These are also often visible during rocket launches - they were very apparent on long range shots of the space shuttle. 🙂
Jamboree Rathanes would co do
First the distortion along the ground, then along the cone.
2:35 didn't expected this result what a conclusion.
And they didn't even tell what those speeds were
Millions of dollars later. “It was destroyed.”
@@electricpaisy6045 You had to expect that *something* about the test would be classified.
Would have loved to see ‘Acme’ painted on the side of the rockets and wily coyote pushing the fire button when the count hit zero….
yyyYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSS!!!!!
If Wile E. Coyote had pushed the button, the rocket sled would loop around and destroy the blockhouse leaving a scorched black Wile E. Coyote standing in the rubble.
At that speed only Nokia 3210 will survive the crash.
Maybe even a passport or two... everyone know that jet fuel will melt steel beams but not a passport.
@@consciousbeing1188 excellent remark. I might build myself a bunker out of used passports.
Respect for Nokia 3310 *sir* .
3310
Haha true
I'm the guy with the dustpan and brush, and I want a raise.
"remember kids, the only difference between science and messing around is writing it down."
-adam savage on mythbusters
......does Nike make these rockets in Vietnamese sweat shops as well?
animalmother556x45
Chinese sweatshops... for added irony.
Nike missiles have been around long before the shoe company existed, in an era when the average person would've known enough about Roman mythology to understand where the name derived.
tetrabromobisphenol **rolls eyes** Well aren't you just special. I cannot thank you enough for saving the day with your un-needed explanation of the origin of Nike.
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tetrabromobisphenol
I think you should check out the subreddit r/iamverysmart
"Safe" nuclear weapons?
Jon Doe safe as in they only blow up when they want them too. No matter what. Like in the 50s when the airforce “lost” a nuke out of a plane and it crashed into someone’s paddock and only one safety device stopped it blowing up and killing American civilians.
look up nuclear broken arrow events. We've lost literally dozens of nuclear bombs over the years, quite a few were never recovered because the uranium and plutonium is so dense it causes the bombs to burrow on the ocean floor.
Yeah, it comes with safety goggles
So what's the test exactly? To try and figure out if the bomb would detonate if it accidentally launched into the silo roof or something?
ninjafruitchilled
Blow-up from an interception maybe? Like an anti ibcm missile.?
"They're waiting for you,Gordon,in the test chamber"
2:47 Was this not really a test of "How to blast the rust off a steel structure inside of a millisecond?"?
Double Dare Fan i know huh i barely noticed that
Millisecond?..at that speed, Microseconds.
Jesus, what an eye! After i read your comment I instantly remembered the rusty condition of the structure! haha, Micro Second Home Improvement
It got sand blasted
It looks brand new again
SNL: We make sure nukes explode only if we want them to!
And out of the Smoke walked Indiana Jones and gets his Fedora from the ground😂😂
I can't get enough of watching super high speed, ultra slow motion impacts. The objects virtually fold in on themselves and vaporise before they even get a chance to move backwards.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
Lies again? Serie A Leader Education
Spends rest of my day watching Sandia National Lab videos 😂
The Fermilab YT channel is fun if you are a quantum physics geek. Dr. Donald Lincoln.
I love how after all these years and tests, the answer to "So what do we put at the other end?" is still, "Dirt. Well, and a culvert too. But mostly dirt."
Welcome back to my lababaoraotory, safety is number one priority
Lmbo! Crazy Russian hacker...it go boom!
Gosh, I feel safer already.
i'm scared of sleds now
My grandfather worked on these for the Navy in the late 60's and early 70's. Cool, very smart guy.
1:20 Elon Musk would have been made those rockets reusable.. and his next step; make the whole explosion reusable.
yeah :P
You're right, he's known to hype things and never do them XD
DVD playerz could be why Tesla is very close to going BK.
lol, nice
It's technologie older
No time for reusable rockets, better smoke weed, destroy the stock value of your company and call people pedophiles.
I have always been fascinated by the ultra slow motion camera footage of the missile disintegration as it and the hardened object converge!
From being a high precision, meticulously constructed missile to becoming dust and fragmentation faster than the human mind can observe!
I would be very interested in seeing the same test carried out with the missile warhead fitted and armed.
Do you want to be able to use the test site again..?
Because scattering a kilo of so of refined nuclear weapons grade material around the area will render the site inhospitable to life for a very long time.. and that's assuming some freak condition doesn't cause a detonation upon impact, in which case even the "hardened bunker" won't save them..
@@GenoLoma Somewhat obviously, I wasn't referring to them testing nuclear missiles and warheads, only conventional types!
It being somewhat obvious, I didn't think it needed elaborating...
@@felixcat9318 these high-speed tests are _specifically_ designed to test the safety of nuclear warheads, as stated in the video..
So no, it's not 'obvious'.. I think you're confused here mate.
@@GenoLoma The video I saw was without sound, so whatever was stated is unknown to me.
Spot on man.
Proving that if you drive one thing at very high speed into another thing, nothing remains. Top work boffins!
So if I understand correctly, this test is to ensure the safety of the nuclear arsenal by proving the fuzing doesn't misfire during a super sonic impact? This video keeps saying that by doing this test it ensures safety, but never explained how it goes about doing so. Thats just what ive gathered from comments.
You're correct. The test is intended to validate the design of the electronic systems inside the warhead and ensure that it doesn't detonate unexpectedly when subjected to impact/shock, as would happen during a bomber crash or an enemy attack on a nuclear stockpile facility.
"Work smart, work safe at Black Mesa"
“Ensuring the safety of nuclear weapons” is the most ironic thing I’ve ever heard 🤦🏼♂️
"Rocket sled"
That is what santa uses
No - that is what Santa hopes to get some Christmas!
The only person I know who uses a rocket sled is Mr. Wile E Coyote.
I've got to get my hearing checked, on first listen...
I could have sworn she said the rockets were from IKEA.
Here is the Original Semitic Text. HERE is The Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Basically what Darrell Moore is trying to say s that Santa would have a nuclear sled.
1:20 The most impressive part is how clean the pavement is around that track! Normal highway shoulders are proven to have considerable amounts of harvestable platinum dust on them, and we still can't get the government to use some of that squanderable income on some sweeper trucks.
yeah 1000 miles per miligram of platinum ..lol
@@stevebanning902 As I recall, I think that's about the rate of deposition per car. Now imagine there are more cars on that highway than yours. By the way, this has been tested on other channels, and it was found that there were profitable levels of harvestable platinum on road shoulders, at industrial-mining levels. Eventually, this will happen, whether or not you can do simple math.
@@buckstarchaser2376 If what you're saying is true, the shoulders of the 405 in california would be plated in platinum.
@@stevebanning902 They certainly are.
@@buckstarchaser2376 Are you, ok?
One of the most impressive pieces of footage.
You can see the supersonic shockwave, distorting the dirt below the rocket under test, then you can quite visibly see the shockwave slightly in front of the test rocket.
I don’t know what speed impact was at, but quite the amazing display of physics, ultra high speed cameras, capturing very high definition footage, perfect timing, and extremely good technology all at the same time on the same video.
This tickles every single nerve in my geek sensors.
If you guys are ever looking for an extra electronic engineer, with a good background in physics, let me know.
Any footage of the aftermath? I want to see what those pieces of debris looked like post-impact.
Imagine being qualified and trusted to do this. Amazing
Math, ,math, and MORE math. That's about it. oh, and being certed A+ to build supercomputers can help.
I love how the sled is going so fast you cant even see it. Its huge. That is so cool. I want to ride that thing from the east to west coast. I don't know the math but I bet its fast and people would pay a lot to save time.
One word: Hyperloop.
Not east to west coast though. Merely S.F. L.A., because that's where there's the highest concentration of people with more money then they know what to do with.
Years ago a very close friend of mine who worked for NASA invited me to a destructive test of the shuttle main engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. From about a mile away I was able to observe the destruction of what was a shuttle engine that was bolted down in a Saturn V rocket stand. It was the most amazing thing I've EVER witnessed! Incidentally, he was the one who told me (after promising my silence) that some of the astronauts in the shuttle Challenger explosion actually were alive when the crew capsule hit the water. Recently that information was made public.
This is exactly how they test Audi bumpers.
And I was wondering how the front of the car that rear ended me was in ruin, while my back bumber just had a dent
The past should have teached you... Never mess with the germans!
*two front war intensifies*
I wish they tested the audi indicator/turn signal lights as thoroughly (Because i never seem to see them work).
@@Maxxxshop didn't they lose both world wars tho?
It's to bad we need these tests but thankfully we have people doing this. It's a necessary evil. Thank you guys. Hoorah💪..
I can't comprehend how the orange cable survives this test.
Duct tape.
"Flash bulbs illuminate the camera view..."
Giant Rocket flares - "Hold my beer."
I've seen them do test like this out of China lake naval weapons testing center in California Mojave desert. It's a lot more impressive in person. The Earth literally shakes for miles away when they test one of these. I love the feeling.
We used to hear the "SNORT" track on occasion out in Ridgecrest (along with bombs, strafing runs, etc.). I lived out there from the spring of '80 until the fall of '91, and worked as a contractor (Comarco) at a bunch of different sites including the airfield. Now I work for the DOE in NM. Cool stuff!
The rocket was going at several times the speed of sound; you can see the Mach cone on the ground at 2:03. With some geometry you could figure it out pretty precisely, but it looks like 20° or so, or about Mach 3.
This video commentary holds the record for the most use of the word tetrabromobisphenol. Congratulations. :)
Im really curious to what you could actually learn from this test??
This is for development of earth penetrators, bombs designed to explode underground, like inside bunkers ou caves.
We can learn to make even faster camera frame rates so we can see the destruction even slower.
I think they learned that a rocket doesn't survive a piece of steel & concrete being slammed into it at those speeds.
The sensors embedded in the dummy load transmit data at every point in time of the impact. By analyzing the movement of things and the exact way they crush, they can confirm whether a system functions properly. Things like whether the signal to dentonate is triggered, which if the other internal signals are triggering, the exact way the body crushes, and so forth.
For testing like this, the ram on the sled can be swapped out to simulate different angles of impact, and the rocket motors and acceleration distance can be varied to simulate different drop heights.
You only want nukes to go off exactly when you want them to. Testing like this ensures that will be the case even if the shell is dropped by accident due to human error, or a bomber is blasted out of the sky with a full payload by anti-aircraft armaments, or some other catastrophic failure occurs.
Mentioned by a few post up - kylesenior
It's used to verify the contact fuzes on nuclear weapons are functioning correctly. Warheads travelling at the speed of sound (or even faster) have a very small amount of time to set off before they slam into the ground and disintegrate.
Amazing how the missile was torn into shreds on impact, literally disintegrating into millions of tiny pieces in a split second
Awesome sounds. Love the camera footage. Slow motion is so telling.
1:33 is rocket go-go time
This brings to mind the tremendous G-forces that can be exerted on a person involved in a traffic or airplane crash. One particular vulnerable part of the body is the brain. A "Deceleration Brain Injury" is the term used to describe the bruising that the front part of the brain can get when such a hard deceleration causes the front part of the brain to impact the inside of the skull. Fatal if not permanent brain damage can easily result. Immediate medical attention is required.
Barring immediate medical attention for brain damage, could one still succeed in national or state-level politics?
I have to laugh at this high stakes testing being done at “Watermelon” Labs (sandia is Spanish for watermelon)
Actually the Watermelon Base is at the base of the 'Manzano' Apple Mountains, the Sandia Mountains are just across the freeway to the north. I grew up in the Duke City in the Land of Enchantment....Albuquerque New Mexico...I know all about Sandia and Kirkland Airforce base....testing the sound barrier in the 60's
@@RIXRADvidz If you "know all about..." then you'd know it's spelled "Kirtland" and not "Kirkland." You'd also know that the Air Force Base was named after Roy C. Kirtland.
Gallagher would like this.
@@kats1488 if Gallagher had become a materials scientist or engineer instead of a stand-up comic
Watermelons are dangerous.
- Every see a watermelon for sale in a movie theater?
- Does McDonalds, the go-to family destination for decades, serve watermelon?
- Can you even get watermelon at, say - a gas station?
- Is watermelon for sale at any gun or ammunition shops?
"People who underestimate watermelon - probably do not have watermelon at home."
Over 90% of people in the U.S. do not now have watermelon in the home.
Food for thought.
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2:20 the shockwave ahead is so cool!
it actually just picked up one of the engineer's farts, please discard it.
This is great and all but wth is the sled for and what we’re they testing
Finally, I can sleep well in the night knowing that there are 'safe' and 'secure' nukes
Compared to the alternative? Go read Command & Control to see the mess we somehow managed to live through to this point.
@@tangoprime you couldn't feel my sarcasm, could you?
@@saswatmishra5644 I could - your sarcastic point was the fact that nukes are inherently dangerous to all of humanity and "lol, 'safe and secure'." But oh boy are they "safe and secure" (I'm also using sarcasm here) now compared to the utter shitshow that was the 50's - 90's. Serious recommendation on that book - Schlosser's 'Command and Control' is a fantastic read about how many times the world has almost been accidentally annihilated.
@@tangoprime I know, I haven't read the book, but, I watch the infographics show and have some info from some other sources
I know how "clean" those global superpowers are.
Almost as fast as my wife when there is ice cream in the room.
I'm so glad our country only focuses on the important things like maintaining a massive nuclear arsenal. I love the Military Industrial Complexes' presence on social media too, so hip!
Ok but how does this ensure the efficacy of our nuclear stockpile?
It's used to verify the contact fuzes on nuclear weapons are functioning correctly. Warheads travelling at the speed of sound (or even faster) have a very small amount of time to set off before they slam into the ground and disintegrate.
kylesenior Cool thanks man.
But I thought they were mostly designed to detonate in the air?
No, they're designed to be fuzed in whatever method the mission requires.
That sounds convincing to the layman, but that's completely wrong. The purpose of this test is to ensure that there is no way that a supersonic impact can accidently (or prematurely) detonate the fission primary. The fuzing on all missiles, nuclear or not, is done with radar altimeters/proximity sensors. There is no need to set up such an expensive test to prove the efficacy of the fuzing system. There is, on the other hand, plenty of geopolitical reasons to ensure that a nuke doesn't go off if e.g. the bomb rack on a a B1B fails and the munition falls on friendly territory.
That was lovely. Now, instead of having absolutely no idea what this was, I have ALMOST absolutely no idea what this was, or how this makes the US nuke stockpile safer. Maybe next time you hire someone from the private sector to produce a video that communicates actual useful information to the viewer.
I think that impact angle ( simulated ) plus a very high mach - would be the representation of an icbm warhead inbound on a ballistic trajectory....whose internal instrumentation, presumably, was being tested to ensure that it would detect the ground rushing up to it, in time, for it to fuse and detonate the weapon in a simulated ground-burst fashion. you see - icbm warheads come in at mach v. high ( circa 20 I'd estimate given that orbital velocity is circa mach 25 ) but with the air-drag / friction-drag of the atmosphere that would have to reduce a bit....and I reckon it's likely that by the time it reached the ground it could well be about mach 8 or 9, therefore....and as other comments, here, state..the rocket sled speed was to be around 8.6 mach. lastly an air-dropped weapon's terminal velocity due to simply gravity ( from any height that an air-breathing engine'd plane ( or it's own engine if a cruise missile which btw operates at low level so is not relevant here ).....would not be anywhere near the speed of this sled. have a look at icbm warhead reentry videos to see how fast they come in - and the speed is : screamingly fast .... ! have a good one...
Other nations: Test there bomb designs by dropping them on concrete surfaces."
Usa: "Builds a mock city, attaches it to a sled, attaches rockets to the sled, builds giant track, sends the sled flying into the bomb."
Yes, because you can record far more data and higher-quality data like ultra high-speed high-definition video from a reverse impact test of a munition because, as they explained in the video, mounting the munition itself statically allows you to connect the sensors to a computer recording system housed in a hardened protected shelter nearby.
This method is more complex than a classic munition drop test from an aircraft but it yields way more useful information about the device being tested so it allows the munitions you're developing to be way safer when they're being transported short and long distances by aircraft or train and also while being regularly serviced, maintained, and also while sitting in storage.
Accidents happen all the time, and there have been hundreds of nuclear weapons transportation accidents in the past, many of which very nearly destroyed millions of civilians in several countries.
One time two Megaton-class nuclear bombs were accidentally partially-armed and dropped from a B-52 bomber over South Carolina when the plane broke up in the air from a mechanical failure. Only one of the five safety systems in the bombs didn't get bypassed in the bombs' descent and impact of the ground. If it weren't for accurate and detailed munitions safety testing and engineering of failsafe's in the bombs prior to their deployment and transportation in aircraft, South Carolina would be an inhospitable, radioactive crater filled with millions of civilian skeletons today.
Impact = me when I see a parking lot and want to get there, before someone else takes the place 😂
Not sure what the point of the test is? To see if slamming an object into the tip of a nuclear missile cause it to exploded/get destroyed? Feel like that’s an easy “yes”.
2:19 I can see the shock wave on the _top view_ , am I right?
Yes, that is the bowshock. Good eye!
Wow. Yes!
hornetluca ya that’s the compressed air wave in front of the nose as it travels down track
I wonder if they have to make a test for every degree of impact angle! This one was obviously 45 degrees , so there are only 89 tests left to perform !
There's a computer program that can do the same calculations for $49.95.
This test ....... $10 mill.
The most difficult thing about designing nuclear weapons is not how to make the detonate when you want them to. It is keeping them from detonating when you don't want them to.
R.I.P to those ants living on that dirt pile.
This is like one those 1950s PSAs / informational films
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But... with a lot less information and whole lot more “public service”
Crazy how this happens so fast that the nose disintegrates before it has a chance to even start to deflect. "Objects at rest tend to stay at rest...."
It's crazy how the bomb appears to be hanging freely, but doesn't even move upon impact.
NIce, just noticed. It doesn't have time to move :)
It's the nature of inertia.
Strong cables holding it in place. But I see what you mean.
The cables are just lifting it. The thing is that at these speeds, things disintegrate rather than transfer inertia.
And at orbital velocities, you can see speeds above the speed of sound in the materials involved, so that there is not real energy transfer between the colliding object. They pass through each other, stay in roughly the same shape and orbit except they are now two slowly dissipating clouds of debris rather than a billion dollar spy satellite and a bucket of screws.
Love the pressure wave from the overhead view at 2:20
You see that steel test stand holding the "test unit"? (0:53 point) I ask. What would be the result if you attached an aircraft wing (partial) to the rocket sled, ran it up to about 400 knts and crashed the wing into that steel structure? Would the aluminum wing cut the steel structure?
How I used to enter my garage in GTA V when im getting shot at
Well if they are Nike rockets, shouldn’t Kaparnick be the one riding on top? Like a one time trip situation here.
I seen somewhere when I was younger, test being done with reinforced nuclear containers on a flatbed trailer and one of these rocket sleds being fired at it but I can’t seem to find any footage of it
whats the music called at 1:49 ?
Richard Kang darude-sandstorm
The Holy Grail - Olive Musique
@@CrazzzyHuman You are the real MVP.
Yes. Thank you for your assurance we will all die from a well calculated and monitored strike.
Do not be concerned, the most popular, most Voted For president 'Ever', is in control... ;{
You had me at "rocket sled." Immediately liked the video.
Also appreciated the Intellimouse on the desk at 1:10
These guys have been watching Mythbusters. "Can we do that, too? Can we? Can we? Can we?"
The rocket sled that Mythbusters used is probably operated by these same people.
"Jaime want big boom."
"When in doubt, C4."
“Lets take a sled”
“Alright”
“And make it go fast”
“Good idea”
“REALLY fast”
“Wait no”
“Like lets put a ROCKET on it”
“No Jim thats a bad idea”
“And then lets SMASH it”
“NO JIM”
They should rent this test track out for RUclips and TikTok videos - slo-mos are always great!
That's really impressive. I was surprised at 2:17 where the air pressure from the sled peeled off the 3rd centerline sticker on the test weapon, ahead of the sled's impact. Right about when the sled is demolishing the 1st centerline sticker. I understand exactly what happened, I just underestimated the power of the displaced air.
... Or the sticker's glue didn't stick right on the shiny metal. Either way.
0:40 I'm waiting until the adidas rocket motors drop 🔥🔥
Obviously she doesn't not much about the subject.
@@MrEh5 what?