I worked in the Explosion Phenomena Division of the Army Corps of Engineers for six months right after college. We worked a shot at the White Sands missile range back in 1983 called Direct Course. The charge was 640 tons of ANFO on a 166 foot tower as a nuclear effects test. That was a firecracker compared to this one.
This was the "Dice Throw" event, and was conducted using 560 tons of ANFO on October 6, 1976. The White Sands Missile Range saw its firing. Not 4,800 tons whatsoever. The only experiments that employed more than 4,000 tons of ANFO were "Misty Picture" and "Minor Scale," which remain the biggest conventional explosions ever to occur.
This isn’t Minor Scale or Misty Picture. Those are the only two that were over 4000 tons of explosives. This was one of the many smaller ~500 ton explosions.
Shockwave and “blast pressure wave” are the same thing’s, two different word’s to describe the same exact phenomenon. I think you meant to say the blast wave or shockwave traveling ahead of the rapidly expanding gasses produced by the explosive charge.
@@Deutritium93what would be considered a more powerful explosion, one that resulted a crater 15 feet wide and 15 feet deep ? or crater that was 8 feet deep and 30 feet wide ?
Probably encased in some fortified infrastructure. And if there were that weren't as well protected, footage probably did not make it. Same with the nuke bomb testings, those cameras were well protected.
I worked in the Explosion Phenomena Division of the Army Corps of Engineers for six months right after college. We worked a shot at the White Sands missile range back in 1983 called Direct Course. The charge was 640 tons of ANFO on a 166 foot tower as a nuclear effects test. That was a firecracker compared to this one.
Who held the camera? Thor?
This was the "Dice Throw" event, and was conducted using 560 tons of ANFO on October 6, 1976. The White Sands Missile Range saw its firing. Not 4,800 tons whatsoever. The only experiments that employed more than 4,000 tons of ANFO were "Misty Picture" and "Minor Scale," which remain the biggest conventional explosions ever to occur.
560 tons that’s 28 full tractor trailers with ANFO
maybe 0.5 kiloton Max.
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This isn’t Minor Scale or Misty Picture. Those are the only two that were over 4000 tons of explosives. This was one of the many smaller ~500 ton explosions.
This was equivalent to 1kt, so it was most likely around 2000 tons of ANFO
If I eat Wendy’s and Taco Bell in the same day this happens to me too.
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That s what happened in Beirut....
0:17 you can see the shockwave travelling in front of the blast pressure wave
Shockwave and “blast pressure wave” are the same thing’s, two different word’s to describe the same exact phenomenon. I think you meant to say the blast wave or shockwave traveling ahead of the rapidly expanding gasses produced by the explosive charge.
@@Deutritium93what would be considered a more powerful explosion, one that resulted a crater 15 feet wide and 15 feet deep ? or crater that was 8 feet deep and 30 feet wide ?
@@Deutritium93 how fast do you believe that the shockwave here is going ?
Wheres the kaboom?! There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!!
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I wonder if that giant crater can be geo-located today?
Ask 4chan
They were backfilled to be later used for future tests.
@@Deutritium93 Sounds just like the Army - "Go dig a hole. Now, go fgill it up!"
Shoutout to the camerman
0:04 The man in the black hat seems unimpressed... ;)
this is what we will be seeing soon except its much bigger and much deadlier
Still here!
Timothy McVeigh used anfo on the government building in Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma was an inside job.
Beirut
@Republic9323, may I ask who you worked for and some names? I worked for Dynalectron from 1971 to 1978 in the radio maintenance department.
Why isn’t he camera shaking about or being tossed?
Probably encased in some fortified infrastructure. And if there were that weren't as well protected, footage probably did not make it.
Same with the nuke bomb testings, those cameras were well protected.