I read one time where a "bomb guy" was asked how much he stressed on a job..... He answered "Not at all....Either I'm right...or suddenly it's not my problem anymore..."
Its like the pilot of Airforce One when asked how he felt about flying the most important person around and he said "when i fly thy most important person i become the most important person"
I used to work with an ex bomb disposal guy. He was the most chilled man I have ever met. I guess he'd already seen enough shit to last a lifetime, and also what counted as stressful at work didn't really register on his scale at all.
@@Petrol_head44 How they score is up to the individuals involved; there's no standard for them to follow, so it's going to be indicative of the kind of person they are. This guy, like he said, doesn't guess, probably has zero room for sloppiness or 'close enoughs' in his job, so he's going to rule harshly on the visual accuracy and not so much on the emotional accuracy. That scene from _The Hurt Locker_ where the specialist pulls the cables and reveals the constellation of shells around him is low on procedural accuracy, sure, but what the director is trying to do there is give the audience of non-specialists the experience of the specialist suddenly realising that this job has suddenly got a lot hairier than he expected. A real-life specialist would have maybe just noticed the half-buried cable, then done a slow scan of the ground to pick up the other cables and the subtle signs in the dirt of the buried shells that experience and training has taught him about. Very tough to show an audience who aren't trained in spotting IEDs and don't know the procedures. Even tougher to show the audience that moment of "Oh, shit" even the most stoic of specialists will feel at that moment of realisation while maintaining the highest standard of photographic and procedural realism. If you want your audience to feel what the guy on the screen is feeling - which you do, because that's what movies are for - you show enough realism to get them into the groove of identifying with the character, and _then_ pull back on the realism and bludgeon them with the emotional impact shots. "You, audience member, are now standing in the middle of a bunch of artillery shells wired together. How does that feel? Scared yet?" Which is not to say that our guy is wrong to rate these scenes low, or the physicist is right to rate her scenes not so low. Like I said, there's no standard. These vids are entertainment themselves, not a health and safety inspection.
When I was going through EOD school, we actually made a drinking game out of the hurt locker. We did a shot anytime there was a safety violation or the actor did something that would kill them, needless to say we were smammered about 45 minutes into the film.
"If we stand on a mine what should we do sir?" "Normal practice is to jump 200 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a very large area" Blackadder gets a 9/10 for sure :) -1 for exaggerating.
Ciaphas Cain: How to defuse this bomb Adeptus Mechanicus: it's simple, just cut the red one Cain: There's no red one Mechanicus guy: *Incoherent Swearing over the mic*
So funny, "I'd like to say I've never been to a police station where someone picked up an IED and brought it into a police station, but unfortunately I have, so that's pretty realistic." So funny. GREAT show, thank you, I like seeing honest appraisals very much.
Funny story. In my country (Czech Republic) every time there was a change to weapon or gun laws, there was also a "weapon amnesty" during which anyone could bring in any weapon that they had illegally in their possession to the police station, give it to the cops and walk away just like that. No questions asked. And apparently it has happened on multiple occasions that someone walked in with a random grenade or a mortar shell. Also some people who find what is clearly unexploded ordnance seem to be convinced that just picking it up, sticking it into their plastic grocery bag and taking it across town to the cop house is a reasonable thing to do.
@@smolkafilip In sweden there are periodic weapon amnesty periods (simply to get rid of weapons), during the first run they got an anti-aircraft artillery turned in.
@@Herr_U What? How do you get an AAA unit in a country that hasn't been properly at war since the times of Napoleon? I could understand someone hiding a forgotten artillery piece in a shed in say France or some place like that, but how does one go unaccounted for in Sweden? And yes, I know about your recent grenade epidemic, that is different. Grenades are easily portable and because they get destroyed upon use and are considered ammo rather than armaments, they are easy to "disappear" out of military storage by a corrupt NCO. Not so with artillery pieces which have a service life in decades and a whole crew or several crews attached to that specific unit.
@@estherkim6738 Unless you are that random desk riding cop who probably doesn't even bother to put his gun on every shift and then some random granny slams a mortar shell on your desk.
I was in the marine corps and I heard that they actually show the movie "The Hurt Locker" in the EOD schoolhouse on what NOT to do in when you encounter an IED
With me in the Army our Drill Sergeant said he hated that movie because of how unrealistic it was across multiple points. And he stated that the absolute worse most unrealistic part is when the main guy went into the city at night time to try and find the kid. He said there would be a 100% chance that you would be killed by doing that. And then there was zero repercussions for the guy in the movie who did that even though there would be severely.
There are so many things wrong about this film. I was EOD, with his personality traits would never be allowed to operate being a liability to everyone around him
The German S mine (bouncing betty) was believed to go off only when you stood off it in ww2 according to US propaganda in error- in actuality it was just a 4 second delay fuse. There was no requirement for it to go off with you on top of it, by design it rose up 4 feet and then went off, killing anyone with shrapnel in a 20m radius. It has created a deep concept in the American psyche of what a mine is and how it works.
I thought I read that particular device wasn't designed to kill, and generally wouldn't. It was made to maim and disable, since that wears down an enemies resources and moral way more than a mine that kills will.
What was the film where that happens in training and everyone else leaves the room when he stepped on it and when he lifts off it jumped up and sprayed him with paint LOL
@@rat3072 yes the S mine did more injury than killing because of its design. A normal mine explodes straight up, pretty much the entire force killing who ever stepped on it. It's small explosion radius could kill those close by, but not further away since the explosion went more upward than outward. The S-mine when activated exploded about a meter above the ground, sending shrapnel in all directions, had a greater range because of this. This allowed the mine radius to send shrapnel further around the mine instead of the force upward. So it could kill those nearby, and injure those further away. So within 20m could kill you pretty easy, but could also injure and hit people 100m away. Germans loved their mines. They loved building non-metal mines to prevent detection, and coated some with radioactive material so their geiger counter mine detectors could find them, but metal detection mine detectors could not.
@Supra RCJPOP Davies led specialist teams in Iraq and Afghanistan as one of the British Army's leading bomb-disposal and weapons-intelligence experts. As an advanced IEDD operator, he also trained deployable EOD teams and served as the principal bomb-disposal operator within the UK's premier counterterrorism unit. He was the military advisor to the Ministry of Defence's Special Projects Search and Countermeasures delivery team and remains an internationally recognized authority on CT bomb disposal and defense robotics.
I've always liked how mad bombers use standard industry approved wiring with correct colors. They never use one color wire for everything to make the defuser's life difficult.
Many years ago I was constructing security logic panels for access control to high-security buildings,it had to be done wire by wire as all wires were black and although each wire had a number this only related to the schematic and nothing else,if 'bomb-makers' used this method most of these movies would be redundant as there's no limit to the amount of 'booby-traps' that could be incorporated including a RED wire with the label 'CUT TO DISARM' for the really gullible
His ratings were quite arbitrary. He gave highest grades to Die Hard and Juggernaut and they barely showed any bomb defusing at all. So more details the movie shows the higher chance they have of getting a lower grade. I think he's pretty much grading based on what he likes.
Surprisingly, the method used in Lethal Weapon 2 would have been MORE effective in real life than is shown in the movies. The Mythbusters tested the scene, and when they immersed a period-accurate battery (along with the rest of the detonation mechanism) in liquid nitrogen, it took about 10 minutes for it to thaw out and actually fire, meaning they could have walked out of there. But, just to cover their bases, they tested the bathtub dive to see if someone inside a big cast-iron tub covered by the bomb blanket would survive the blast - the pressure levels they registered showed that they would, at worst, walk away with ringing ears.
@@joseantunes3258 No. these mines don't exist. They are very complex to build and its a flawed design. Its like giving the enemy a chance to save their lives. However the closest things to these are those double trigger mines that get activated after the first step and blow after the second and those bouncing mines that jump after someone steps on them and blast the area(1 sec delay)
I always laugh at the blue wire / red wire thing, the very idea that you can tell what a wire does just by its colour is insane. I’ve made door bells and other simple electrical/electronic devices using whatever random leftovers I’ve had lying around. By convention you use red for positive and black for ground but I’ve made entire circuits using green because its all i had. I can’t see a bomber sticking rigidly to a set of rules and making life easy for the disposal guy.
Lloyd Davies: "I'd like to say I've never seen a live IED taken into a police station" me: "haha, yeah, pretty dumb and unrealistic" Lloyd Davies: "but unfortunately I have." Me: "oh..."
Been in law enforcement in California 21 years - I’ve seen it twice. Once a resident brought a live grenade to the PD, she found it in her garage after her husband passed. The second time an officer collected a suspected pipe bomb and drove it to the PD in their trunk, so, you know, totally safe. That individual is no longer with our department. And we actually train this stuff starting in the academy and periodic in service training. Officer must have missed those trainings, but you would hope some common sense would kick in nonetheless. But that’s another things I’ve learned in police work, common sense is a misnomer and not nearly as common as it it should be.
@@robertdonovan3986 amazing. Though it did remind me of the time in the UK where a supposedly inert grand slam bomb was placed outside of an RAF airbase for 15 years as a gate guardian before someone thought to check if it really WAS inert, turns out it was still full of explosives. Bare in mind that this was literally the largest conventional bomb developed in WW2 and it was just sitting outdoors come rain or shine for a decade and a half with vehicles driving past it.
years ago, my boss was kajaking on the Rhine, when it had an unusual low water level and saw a large objekt on the ground. He reported it to the next harbour master, they liftet the object from the ground, they thougt it was just a tank from the chemical industry nearby and put it on the dock to the scrap. A few years later, it started to drop some liquid from a flange, because of corrosion, so the called a chemist from the industrie nearby. The chemist opend the flange, wich had a long rod atached on the inside, took some samples for analysis and put the flange with the rod back in. A few day later he called the harbour master, the substants he found was nothing they produce, but it is used in detonators for bombs. What they have found and thought it was just a tank, was a blockbuster bomb from WW2 and the flunge with the rod was one of its detonators.
I read stories a couple times a year from around the world of people finding bombs, grenades, old dynamite, whatever and driving them down to their local PD. And then I just recently learned of places mined so heavily in WWI and WWII in France particularly where farmers turn up unexploded ordinance so often they just have a collection point in town where the local authorities come and pick them up every week or 2.
@@angrydingus5256 like one of those battery recycling collection points but for unexploded ordnance. I know there are areas of France that you still can't walk around because there's too much unexploded ordnance, so they have herds of sheep grazing it and occasionally exploding. Pretty brutal for the sheep but I guess it cuts down on losing bomb disposal technicians.
I was a combat engineer in Afghanistan, he's spot on with bringing the dismantled signature IED back for forensics. However most times it was just a common bomb and we would 'blow in place' with a C4 charge and save huge amounts of time.
His admission to seeing IEDs in places they shouldn't be in custody makes me feel very confident in his experience. It happens. In Afghanistan I once walked into the TSCIF and saw an 18F cutting away at a yellow jug of HME with a multitool and a big excited grin on his face. I just kind of froze in place when I saw him and then walked away at a brisk pace.
@@Heroball299 TSCIF is the anacronym for Tactical Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility 18f I believe is an Army Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant, but I'm probably working on waaay out of date info there :D I think HME from context here is Home Made Explosive
13:18 In the movie Juggernaut, AFAIK, the reason why he "changed his mind at the last moment" was because he realized that the guy they were interrogating to gain info about the bomb was lying. So, it was actually an informed decision on the protagonist's part.
The movie juggernaut ist more realistic than you think.Amatol ist real,and i have researched,there was a WW2 german magnetic sea mine with a pendulum switch in a magnetic field, the wire color's was red and blue,one of the first movies with cutting wires in different colors. ...also, a Mac Gyver episode is a copy of this movie .. Funny: In the movie Speed,the actor shorts a fiber optic cable with a cooper wire.
Yes but he didn't tell his colleagues what he was doing; if he had got it wrong and had blown up his colleagues would have assumed he had cut the blue wire as he had said and would have all cut the red wire.
My only complaint is that all of the "mistakes" identified in Bodyguard were actually addressed in the series. The cover was removed earlier in the episode. And the techs had an identical bomb vest that they'd studied in depth, so they knew exactly where to put the alligator clip jumper. It was a great show
@@cjstrashvideoemporium6484 I knew plenty of people who did this crap. We called them cowboys before the movie even came out which was ripped off by an ex SGM that disliked the real stories of the SSG Sarvier, and he sued them 3 times but lost each time. Also the SPC who was in the movie was eventually my 1sg at Campbell. Point is EOD people also do dumb things to be cool guys or maybe it's laziness. I know the Marines so it that way because the Navy doesn't give them much of a budget.
Even then no one would make a machine as complicated as that. Turn clockwise and press a button at the exact time as you’re cutting the wire. The bomb maker is basically wasting his time adding all that unnecessary feature. It’s a bomb not a bethesda video game.
Actually Lloyd is showing his young age. Bomb techs DID used to use Liquid Nitrogen to freeze electronics, which could slow the electronics especially from the era of the movie.
I'm giving this video a 10 out of 10. He was very honest about what he knows. He did not sugar coat. I like videos like this. I learn alot like Physics. Lol right?
The Mythbusters tried the toilet bomb scene. They we're not freezing the switch. They froze the battery. As anyone with a car knows, freezing a battery lowers the power output. Freeze it cold enough and it might be too weak to detonate.
I presume the point of the secondary C4 charge was precisely to blow up the sealed room and spread the gas into the rest of the building, where people aren't wearing hazmat suits.
It seems to me that the trope of the expert knowing all the details of a bomb is a holdover from WW2, when the experts would be dealing with mass-produced bombs with identical characteristics. "Oh, yeah, this is a Volkswaffenherstellar Verdammtgrossebomben 2000kg Mk18. Measure 18" counterclockwise from the inspection plate, drill through the case and cut the wire for the anti-handling device, then proceed as you would for the 1000kg Mk17. If it starts ticking run like hell." Harder to do these days, as you don't get so many mass-produced bombs thrown around (well, not at _us)._ IEDs are improvised so there's no standard, though many are produced according to patterns evolved by experienced IED-makers; I'd guess that there are characteristics you can identify, though nothing as certain as the script and actors can portray.
Lol, that name of the Ww2 Bomb^^ Afaik weapon removal guys in Germany are still somewhat busy with WW2 remanants, if I remember correctly there are still thousands suspected to be left in the ground
@@johnuferbach9166 Oh, for sure. I read of a Belgian farmer who recently uncovered a cache of _First_ World War gas shells in one of his fields. And then there's that British bomb in Poland that exploded a few weeks ago. If you ever visit Europe, be careful where you tread. ;)
These bombs/musicians are still found and that kind of work is still being done. Defusing s one thing then it has to be destroyed or deposed of correctly.
If there was only 1 power source, usually a battery not AC, yes...mostly. also no capacitors. Removing the power source, separating the main charge from initial charge (initiator / detonator / blasting cap), or attacking the switch is the proper way. In that order but situation dependent of course.
Guest speaker: That bombstrap is totally unrealistic. Normally when you cut the strap like that it would go off in a heartbeat, here let me demonstrate... Producer: NOOOO!!
I know Mythbusters tested the Lethal Weapon 2 scene. They put pressure sensors in a cast iron tub, and the tub did, in fact, actually deflect the shock wave. I remember they froze C4 with Liquid N2, and it didn't thaw for several minutes. Then they burned C4 and smashed it, and contrary to what I was told by my grandfather, it didn't explode either.
A friend of mine was with the Royal Marines in afghanistan. He told me a story of how they were patrolling on foot and got hit by a daisy chained IED. They triggered it as the first guy got to the beginning of the chain and it went right down the line. He lived but he witnessed some really horrible things that day. He killed him self a few years ago. I don’t think he ever really got past it or other things that happened to him there.
Then you send the next bomb tech to defuse the next bomb, and DON'T DO THE LAST THING LAST GUY SAID HE DID OVER THE RADIO! That's why they tell what they're doing step by step when they're doing it.
@@TestTest12332 Operator on radio: Okay don't cut the red wire that got the last guy! Bomb maker: hehe I switched the cables on that one >:) Never rely on two bombs being the same design :p
A two-stage warhead utilizing both nerve agent and explosives would actually make sense if you were to specifically target a facility that makes use of sealed rooms or haz-mat equiptment. The nerve gas is deadly, but only if it can be spread around. So you ensure that it can be spread around.
At 10:35, if I remember correctly, the Mythbusters actally tested that and if im not mistaken it was found to actually work in princable, the liquid nitrogen essentally just froze that battery and dissabled the detonator. Although I totaly understand that you wouldn't necessarily want to do that in a real situation, as he said, you wouldn't know how the device would react to the loss of power like that
In the Mythbusters episode, using liquid nitrogen actually worked even better than it did in the movie. They could have strolled out of the room at their leisure.
I don't have EOD experience, but I do have some electronics knowledge, and I think making a bomb that will go off if its battery is removed or disabled would be quite difficult, as I think detonators require a decent amount of power, so even if you could power the logic off a capacitor bank, running the detonators would be more complicated. You could have two batteries connected independently and add the logic to have the bomb explode if one was removed, but that'd be a decent bit of design effort, and the bomb maker would have to be thinking about that method of defusal
The whole "I just stood on a landmine" thing comes from WW2 anti-personnel landmines, such as Bouncing Betties, that did indeed function like that. They had little antennae that your foot would break, then when you stepped off them they would be fired into the air to about groin height and explode, blasting shrapnel out in a radius injuring or killing everyone nearby. They couldn't jump up until you stepped off them which is why this idea has hung around pop culture. [Edit to stop people who don't bother reading threads before replying: I'm wrong about it waiting until you step off it]
Not true bud. When you hit the "antenna" as you say it would shoot a firing pin down into a pyrotechnic delay which would then launch the charge into the air after a few seconds. So standing on it would not stop it. It would more and likely hit you in the nuts and land on the ground where the secondary fuze would set it off ground level. Just spreading some knowledge
There are such mines that would work like they did in the scene. One of these mines is the M16, not to be confused with the rifle. These types of mines are called bounding mines. Wikipedia lists 42 different models.
@@orlock20 dude theres alot of mines out there. Just gonna be straight though it's kinda hard to make a pressure release mine that's reliable and useable. Something has to be the physical block to stop it from going in the first place. Then someone has to step on it that will somehow cause that physical block to be moved now making the victims foot the physical block? Sounds dumb
Mythbusters proved every single part of the lethal weapon scene is possible. The liquid nitrogen actually rendered the electrical circuit safe for minutes
@@superslimanoniem4712 if anything it would speed them up, heat creates resistance in electrical circuits, that's why at the large hadron collider a lot of the electronics are cooled to near absolute zero, what you would be trying to freeze is the mechanisms inside. But without knowing exactly what they are and where and how much they'd need to be cooled would be a wildly unprofessional move.
There are people out there that know how to disarm "improvised nuclear devices." That is the most interesting thing I heard in the entire video. Let's meet that person. The thought that a job like like that even exists is terrifying.
When I started watching the video, I was thinking that it would be wonderful if he watched Juggernaut, but they would certainly never include an older, lesser known movie like that. Score! However, I have to give him a 3 out of 10 for the fact that it looks like they only showed him the brief clip that he played. The red vs. blue wire was at the very end after they disarmed a whole bunch of other complicated devices inside the bombs. I would love to see him rate the entire process, not just that last moment. He was dead right to criticize the final moment, though, but not his reasoning for it. Harris's character correctly susses out that Freddie Jones was lying about which wire to cut, so no, he was not wrong to change the plan. But it has always bugged me that he did not announce his switch. If he was wrong about the lie, it would have cost at least one more team member his life.
This guy is so interesting to listen to! These are brilliant videos, loved the sniper one too. Thanks to these really brave people who put their lives on the line to keep us all safe.
I was expecting a detailed analysis of "countdown timers". If a bomb is designed and placed to "not be found", the builder knows how much time is left and from his perspective nobody else needs to know. Even if used for extortion, it would have to be deactivated remotely, but still the builder knows the time left. The only purpose is letting the audience know, but as far s the builder is concerned, there is no audience.
Remember that anything he says could be used by the fuc***g IED makers to improve their designs. So no, expect absolutely zero analysis about anything. Let's keep it that way.
Or alternatively if there is a timer, who knows what that means? It could detonate 5 seconds after reaching zero, or it have several minutes remaining before exploding. Only the bomb maker would know.
Funny that. A panel show asked if a pilot were to say "We've run into some trouble and we'll have to make an emergency landing", what accent would you like the pilot to have? They all said positively not Birmingham and David Mitchell said posh because they always skate by, have sex with all the stewardesses, never caught by his wife.
I cant remember the film but years ago I saw one where the countdown was doing it's thing and the demo guys were racing the clock and all of a sudden it beeped at like 2:19. Turns out it was an instructor letting the bomb techs know that bad guys watch movies too and countdown timers are bullshit.
I would have liked to see a critique of the classic bomb disposal mini-series, Danger UXB. And a little trivia. There were more bomb disposal people killed after WW2 ended clearing British bombs from piers than were killed clearing German bombs.
They actually did the Lethal weapon 2 bomb scene in Mythbusters and found that spraying liquid nitrogen on the bomb would not only diffuse it, but Murtaugh could have just got up off the toliet and walked away just fine.
I've always wondered about landmines just not immediately going off. Its happened in so many movies I just kinda presumed it was accurate though it seemed a weird design feature I also find it equally hilarious and worrying the few times bombs were just strewn about in police departments and his response was "....yeah, that happens"
The very first scene with the landmine, you missed a very important detail - Tyler Grey is a Former Special Forces Operator himself formerly with 75th Rangers and Delta Force/CAG. After he became injured he turned to acting, with SEALs being his first major hit series to act within. He taught most of the tactics and terminology to the rest of the actors. Also Additionally - Justin Melnick is a Police Officer and the owner of "Dita The Fur Missile Dog" a Lawfully sworn K9. Given Tyler's background, he would know EXACTLY how to react, and was also one of the direct set advisors while acting himself.
That's good for him but actors and even advisors rarely have the final say on screenplay writing, usually if the writer wanted a scene where they step on a mine and have to defuse it in the field it's going to happen regardless of realism or experience of the actors/advisors.
Thats cool to know. I do think that a lot of stuff in Seal Team looks good, but they do have that Hollywood mark all over it. On how they act against their councelers and stuff. I also would imagine that mines like these exist for areas you may want to mine but mostly to slow people down. That escape is an option if you have the time to manage it. Also: if a mine hasn't gone off when you pressed it, there would still be a chance of it going off when you step off, so I still think its a valid scene for that.
Scene would be completely different if it just blew up... I mean where's the suspense in that. Real mines can function like that, less than 1% by design, but it's possible the primer became impinged making it super pissed off and ready to blow at the slightest movement. Think of a bullet primer being struck by the firing pin (much sharper) and being stuck inside the primer of the bullet. Friction sets it off in addition to impact.
I did a little work with explosives in Vietnam. At one time, i set up an anti-vehicle mine, and booby trapped it. I would never be in EOD. I would just blow anything questionable in place. Sorry bout the mess. I actually did that once too. Years later I met someone who had been EOD. Instructing him on his computer was fascinating. Every thing I told him to do, he would repeat it silently in his head, and did EXACTLY what I had told him. I asked. And that is when he told me he had been EOD. Made perfect sense and earned lots of respect.
Yeah he did. Pretty smart considering those cores are very stable and not at all radioactive. A fun little activity is to get a screwdriver and just poke the core on different places to see what happens. I reckon you'll get pretty doozy 10 minutes in, loads of fun. You'll get the longest sleep you've ever had after that.
@@odethious5639 I have a better one. Take that screwdriver, get some tungsten carbide in a sphere and then hold the core just off of the tungsten or vice versa with the screwdriver until you're tired. The bright blue flash will let you know when the game is over. Also are you seriously trying to tell me a demon core (14 pound ball of weaponised plutonium) is safe to hold in your hands? Damn! Slotin and Daghlian would be amazed!
@@loumorningstar7709 You're thinking of two half spheres of beryllium. For quicker results, ditch the screwdriver and just close them together with the demon core inside. Fans of Dragon Ball Z would love this!
@@odethious5639 Daghlian used Beryllium, the first core was housed in Tungsten Carbide by Slotin. Both are neutron reflectors. Although neither experiment ended well so its a moot point I guess.
An EOD I'd worked with hated proximity switched explosives. Wouldn't speak about his former military work too much, but we became good friends. His personality was much like the individual in this video. We'd have to take long drives as part of the job and he shared some very interesting stories. The guy was super cool under stress.
The irony is technically speaking the bomb around 11:00 actually would be rendered inert due to the batteries freezing and therefore having no electrical current. The mythbusters tested this scene and instead of a delay it just doesn’t activate until the nitrogen boils off
What I find unrealistic about the first one is the guy is standing on a mine and everyone is just standing around looking at him waiting to get blown up too
That whole "the Mine goes of after the pressure release" comes, as far as I know, from the German WWII S-Mine which did go of some secondes after presure was put on them. They were designed to jump into the air and shot fragments around them.
A watched a Spanish Technician deal with a pressure cooker frag bomb. Hiding behind a concrete pillar. Camera footage later indicated well too close. Thanks god. He didn't suit up at all. Just jeans and a short sleeve shirt. What a man.
there wasa movie in the 80's (with john lithgow) about a kid who built a small nuclear bomb for a science fair (the manhattan project?)... i'd love to see his take on both the build and the disarm at the end!
I don't think he is saying that it won't ever work. He is saying that it is incredibly careless to jump into using liquid nitrogen without exploring other options since you don't have the full knowledge of how the bomb is created.
In Juggernaut, he switches to the red wire because he understands the psychology behind the actions of the criminal saying "cut the blue one" more and more impatiently. Unfortunately our expert does not understand that nuance from the movie.
It's likely he has never seen it, neither have I and from that clip alone I never knew the guy saying cut the blue wire was a criminal. The expert talked about how it was realistic to have communication with someone else when discussing how to disarm the bomb because they aren't under as much stress, so can think more clearly. That's why the film got such a high score. I believe had the expert known it was the criminal that was in communication, it would have got a much lower score.
I wish you had done the end of The Peacemaker where Kidman and Clooney disarm a backpack nuke by by digging off a section of the implosion explosive sphere and make it not symmetrical. The explosives detonate, but they don't initiate an nuclear explosion. On the other hand I just watched the scene and wondered why she wouldn't have just cut harness wires.
I’m glad he said he wants to interact with the bomb as little as possible. I hate how in movies whenever the “bomb expert” comes in they start rubbing the bomb n shit like they’re about to read it a story and put it to bed like... it’s a bomb. Nobody wants to be near it lmao
I saw a show where a guy disabled a compact nuclear bomb by just slightly damaging the explosives on the outside. Didn't even try to stop the timer. It eventually went off but since the explosives were no longer perfect it couldn't go nuclear.
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I read one time where a "bomb guy" was asked how much he stressed on a job.....
He answered "Not at all....Either I'm right...or suddenly it's not my problem anymore..."
HAHAHA thats a brilliant one
Its like the pilot of Airforce One when asked how he felt about flying the most important person around and he said "when i fly thy most important person i become the most important person"
Omg I love that 😂😂
yeah everyone has heard this one like 1,001 times
I used to work with an ex bomb disposal guy. He was the most chilled man I have ever met. I guess he'd already seen enough shit to last a lifetime, and also what counted as stressful at work didn't really register on his scale at all.
Love how brutal he us with his scoring
How accurate and realistic ***
Same pinch last time the lady physics researcher wasn't so good. She gave a lot of score to every scene even though she said it's not realistic.
@@Petrol_head44 How they score is up to the individuals involved; there's no standard for them to follow, so it's going to be indicative of the kind of person they are. This guy, like he said, doesn't guess, probably has zero room for sloppiness or 'close enoughs' in his job, so he's going to rule harshly on the visual accuracy and not so much on the emotional accuracy.
That scene from _The Hurt Locker_ where the specialist pulls the cables and reveals the constellation of shells around him is low on procedural accuracy, sure, but what the director is trying to do there is give the audience of non-specialists the experience of the specialist suddenly realising that this job has suddenly got a lot hairier than he expected.
A real-life specialist would have maybe just noticed the half-buried cable, then done a slow scan of the ground to pick up the other cables and the subtle signs in the dirt of the buried shells that experience and training has taught him about. Very tough to show an audience who aren't trained in spotting IEDs and don't know the procedures. Even tougher to show the audience that moment of "Oh, shit" even the most stoic of specialists will feel at that moment of realisation while maintaining the highest standard of photographic and procedural realism.
If you want your audience to feel what the guy on the screen is feeling - which you do, because that's what movies are for - you show enough realism to get them into the groove of identifying with the character, and _then_ pull back on the realism and bludgeon them with the emotional impact shots. "You, audience member, are now standing in the middle of a bunch of artillery shells wired together. How does that feel? Scared yet?"
Which is not to say that our guy is wrong to rate these scenes low, or the physicist is right to rate her scenes not so low. Like I said, there's no standard. These vids are entertainment themselves, not a health and safety inspection.
bloodbath :)
@@akizeta well worded reply. Deserves recognition. Feel free to help yourself to a coveted pat on the back
When I was going through EOD school, we actually made a drinking game out of the hurt locker. We did a shot anytime there was a safety violation or the actor did something that would kill them, needless to say we were smammered about 45 minutes into the film.
But did you graduate EOD school?
@@derekbowman9551 yep hardest thing i ever did
You must've gotten liver poisoning by the time they started shooting the 50.
@@a-aronkim1689 yep cause all EOD tech are trained snipers lol. When all else fails you BIP that shit.
Do you all still like the movie regardless? I know its very unrealistic and all but I still see it as one of the best movies I've seen.
"If we stand on a mine what should we do sir?"
"Normal practice is to jump 200 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a very large area"
Blackadder gets a 9/10 for sure :) -1 for exaggerating.
I still use that clip in training :)
@@Lofi.z34 the mine goes off the second you touch the switch
Everyone a gangsta until the bomb technician finds three wires in a bomb and no one is red
I can relate
there is one imposter among us
I was innocently thinking "how did fara learn all this" then I realized
All the wiring is brown lamp cord.
Ciaphas Cain: How to defuse this bomb
Adeptus Mechanicus: it's simple, just cut the red one
Cain: There's no red one
Mechanicus guy: *Incoherent Swearing over the mic*
So funny, "I'd like to say I've never been to a police station where someone picked up an IED and brought it into a police station, but unfortunately I have, so that's pretty realistic." So funny.
GREAT show, thank you, I like seeing honest appraisals very much.
Funny story. In my country (Czech Republic) every time there was a change to weapon or gun laws, there was also a "weapon amnesty" during which anyone could bring in any weapon that they had illegally in their possession to the police station, give it to the cops and walk away just like that. No questions asked. And apparently it has happened on multiple occasions that someone walked in with a random grenade or a mortar shell. Also some people who find what is clearly unexploded ordnance seem to be convinced that just picking it up, sticking it into their plastic grocery bag and taking it across town to the cop house is a reasonable thing to do.
@@smolkafilip that's hilarious
@@smolkafilip In sweden there are periodic weapon amnesty periods (simply to get rid of weapons), during the first run they got an anti-aircraft artillery turned in.
@@Herr_U What? How do you get an AAA unit in a country that hasn't been properly at war since the times of Napoleon? I could understand someone hiding a forgotten artillery piece in a shed in say France or some place like that, but how does one go unaccounted for in Sweden? And yes, I know about your recent grenade epidemic, that is different. Grenades are easily portable and because they get destroyed upon use and are considered ammo rather than armaments, they are easy to "disappear" out of military storage by a corrupt NCO. Not so with artillery pieces which have a service life in decades and a whole crew or several crews attached to that specific unit.
@@estherkim6738 Unless you are that random desk riding cop who probably doesn't even bother to put his gun on every shift and then some random granny slams a mortar shell on your desk.
I was in the marine corps and I heard that they actually show the movie "The Hurt Locker" in the EOD schoolhouse on what NOT to do in when you encounter an IED
Much like how NASA shows Armageddon to show how space travel doesn't work?
With me in the Army our Drill Sergeant said he hated that movie because of how unrealistic it was across multiple points. And he stated that the absolute worse most unrealistic part is when the main guy went into the city at night time to try and find the kid. He said there would be a 100% chance that you would be killed by doing that. And then there was zero repercussions for the guy in the movie who did that even though there would be severely.
Bomb disposal is probably the thing that hollywood gets wrong more than any other activity.
There are so many things wrong about this film. I was EOD, with his personality traits would never be allowed to operate being a liability to everyone around him
lmao wasn't that the whole point of his character?
The German S mine (bouncing betty) was believed to go off only when you stood off it in ww2 according to US propaganda in error- in actuality it was just a 4 second delay fuse. There was no requirement for it to go off with you on top of it, by design it rose up 4 feet and then went off, killing anyone with shrapnel in a 20m radius. It has created a deep concept in the American psyche of what a mine is and how it works.
I thought I read that particular device wasn't designed to kill, and generally wouldn't. It was made to maim and disable, since that wears down an enemies resources and moral way more than a mine that kills will.
What was the film where that happens in training and everyone else leaves the room when he stepped on it and when he lifts off it jumped up and sprayed him with paint LOL
@@rat3072 yes the S mine did more injury than killing because of its design. A normal mine explodes straight up, pretty much the entire force killing who ever stepped on it. It's small explosion radius could kill those close by, but not further away since the explosion went more upward than outward. The S-mine when activated exploded about a meter above the ground, sending shrapnel in all directions, had a greater range because of this. This allowed the mine radius to send shrapnel further around the mine instead of the force upward. So it could kill those nearby, and injure those further away. So within 20m could kill you pretty easy, but could also injure and hit people 100m away. Germans loved their mines. They loved building non-metal mines to prevent detection, and coated some with radioactive material so their geiger counter mine detectors could find them, but metal detection mine detectors could not.
That mine was nasty...... creates wounded as well dead, as you say, in a radius
@@blindbrad4719 4 mos late, but Blown Away. Bridges was in that with his irl dad. Fun times.
This man is no joke. If you read the description its really impressive what he's done in the Ministry of Defence and his other experiences.
@Supra RCJPOP Davies led specialist teams in Iraq and Afghanistan as one of the British Army's leading bomb-disposal and weapons-intelligence experts. As an advanced IEDD operator, he also trained deployable EOD teams and served as the principal bomb-disposal operator within the UK's premier counterterrorism unit. He was the military advisor to the Ministry of Defence's Special Projects Search and Countermeasures delivery team and remains an internationally recognized authority on CT bomb disposal and defense robotics.
@Supra RCJPOP you’re acting like being used by the government as cannon fodder in banker wars is somehow heroic.
@@DefgirRZawa Well said!
@Supra RCJPOP wasn't aware minimum service is 15 years
@Supra RCJPOP 😂, not everyone wants to be a lifer .
I've always liked how mad bombers use standard industry approved wiring with correct colors. They never use one color wire for everything to make the defuser's life difficult.
That's true, but the thing is that in more than a few case they might be making things difficult for themselves as well while making the bomb.
Many years ago I was constructing security logic panels for access control to high-security buildings,it had to be done wire by wire as all wires were black and although each wire had a number this only related to the schematic and nothing else,if 'bomb-makers' used this method most of these movies would be redundant as there's no limit to the amount of 'booby-traps' that could be incorporated including a RED wire with the label 'CUT TO DISARM' for the really gullible
They are polite thats why
@@busking6292 yeah if I were to make a bomb, I would use all the same colors haha and also probably seal them in resin too.
My bomb will explode when the timer hits 0:04.
Pulling no punches with these ratings. 👍👍👍
He would be a strict teacher. Give everyone bad grades, but with words of understanding lol 😄
His ratings were quite arbitrary. He gave highest grades to Die Hard and Juggernaut and they barely showed any bomb defusing at all. So more details the movie shows the higher chance they have of getting a lower grade. I think he's pretty much grading based on what he likes.
I like it when the specialist does not sugarcoat and is not afraid to give low grades, as low as zero in this case! :) Very good review!
As a software developer, I can attest humans doing 2 things at the same exact time in the mind of a computer is basically impossible.
@@cjstrashvideoemporium6484 Lol! First time I've heard that one.
Considering human brains are concurrent...
@@chris-hayes what did he say before he deleted it?
What’d he say
yep, might as well win the lotto
Surprisingly, the method used in Lethal Weapon 2 would have been MORE effective in real life than is shown in the movies. The Mythbusters tested the scene, and when they immersed a period-accurate battery (along with the rest of the detonation mechanism) in liquid nitrogen, it took about 10 minutes for it to thaw out and actually fire, meaning they could have walked out of there.
But, just to cover their bases, they tested the bathtub dive to see if someone inside a big cast-iron tub covered by the bomb blanket would survive the blast - the pressure levels they registered showed that they would, at worst, walk away with ringing ears.
Not if they had ear muffs.
"yeah, it quite realistic" give the score 0/10
The SEALs reaction was realistic, but they completely messed up how landmines work iro
@R. Schowiada71 You guys are aware that those kinds of mines exist right? They didn't just nailed the reaction but the mine as well. jeez.
@@joseantunes3258 No. these mines don't exist. They are very complex to build and its a flawed design. Its like giving the enemy a chance to save their lives. However the closest things to these are those double trigger mines that get activated after the first step and blow after the second and those bouncing mines that jump after someone steps on them and blast the area(1 sec delay)
@@youknowwhatimean1641 Bouncing betty?
@R. Schowiada71 So totally realistic then :P He as completely calm because he knew once he stepped on it and nothing happened, the mine was a dud ;p
I always laugh at the blue wire / red wire thing, the very idea that you can tell what a wire does just by its colour is insane.
I’ve made door bells and other simple electrical/electronic devices using whatever random leftovers I’ve had lying around. By convention you use red for positive and black for ground but I’ve made entire circuits using green because its all i had. I can’t see a bomber sticking rigidly to a set of rules and making life easy for the disposal guy.
I always ask the same question too: What if the bomber run out of color wires? Why indicate it to make it easy to disarmed?😆
Lloyd Davies: "I'd like to say I've never seen a live IED taken into a police station" me: "haha, yeah, pretty dumb and unrealistic" Lloyd Davies: "but unfortunately I have." Me: "oh..."
Been in law enforcement in California 21 years - I’ve seen it twice. Once a resident brought a live grenade to the PD, she found it in her garage after her husband passed. The second time an officer collected a suspected pipe bomb and drove it to the PD in their trunk, so, you know, totally safe. That individual is no longer with our department. And we actually train this stuff starting in the academy and periodic in service training. Officer must have missed those trainings, but you would hope some common sense would kick in nonetheless. But that’s another things I’ve learned in police work, common sense is a misnomer and not nearly as common as it it should be.
@@robertdonovan3986 amazing. Though it did remind me of the time in the UK where a supposedly inert grand slam bomb was placed outside of an RAF airbase for 15 years as a gate guardian before someone thought to check if it really WAS inert, turns out it was still full of explosives. Bare in mind that this was literally the largest conventional bomb developed in WW2 and it was just sitting outdoors come rain or shine for a decade and a half with vehicles driving past it.
years ago, my boss was kajaking on the Rhine, when it had an unusual low water level and saw a large objekt on the ground.
He reported it to the next harbour master, they liftet the object from the ground, they thougt it was just a tank from the chemical industry nearby and put it on the dock to the scrap.
A few years later, it started to drop some liquid from a flange, because of corrosion, so the called a chemist from the industrie nearby.
The chemist opend the flange, wich had a long rod atached on the inside, took some samples for analysis and put the flange with the rod back in.
A few day later he called the harbour master, the substants he found was nothing they produce, but it is used in detonators for bombs.
What they have found and thought it was just a tank, was a blockbuster bomb from WW2 and the flunge with the rod was one of its detonators.
I read stories a couple times a year from around the world of people finding bombs, grenades, old dynamite, whatever and driving them down to their local PD. And then I just recently learned of places mined so heavily in WWI and WWII in France particularly where farmers turn up unexploded ordinance so often they just have a collection point in town where the local authorities come and pick them up every week or 2.
@@angrydingus5256 like one of those battery recycling collection points but for unexploded ordnance. I know there are areas of France that you still can't walk around because there's too much unexploded ordnance, so they have herds of sheep grazing it and occasionally exploding. Pretty brutal for the sheep but I guess it cuts down on losing bomb disposal technicians.
Thank you for getting an actual EOD guy to do this video. Whoever did their research and got an EOD person needs a raise. Kudos
This is the first guy to rate the first movie 0/10 off rip 🤣
He's not rating movies, just how realistic they are.
@@buttonasas so hes rating movies, is what your saying
@@Redditaurus Open your mouth, I have a present for you. (it's Diarrhhea)
@@bollockjohnson3706 give it to me give it to me
I was a combat engineer in Afghanistan, he's spot on with bringing the dismantled signature IED back for forensics. However most times it was just a common bomb and we would 'blow in place' with a C4 charge and save huge amounts of time.
I would have just shot it with a 50 or mk-19
His admission to seeing IEDs in places they shouldn't be in custody makes me feel very confident in his experience. It happens. In Afghanistan I once walked into the TSCIF and saw an 18F cutting away at a yellow jug of HME with a multitool and a big excited grin on his face. I just kind of froze in place when I saw him and then walked away at a brisk pace.
What's TSCIF? What's an 18F? What's HME?
@@Heroball299 TSCIF is the anacronym for Tactical Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
18f I believe is an Army Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant, but I'm probably working on waaay out of date info there :D
I think HME from context here is Home Made Explosive
13:18 In the movie Juggernaut, AFAIK, the reason why he "changed his mind at the last moment" was because he realized that the guy they were interrogating to gain info about the bomb was lying. So, it was actually an informed decision on the protagonist's part.
I thought you was gonna say the reason why he changed his mind was because they found out the guy was color blind.
I think they did that in macguyver too (which is painful to watch after having learned basic physics)
Why would they expect the guy they were interrogating to ever tell the truth?
The movie juggernaut ist more realistic than you think.Amatol ist real,and i have researched,there was a WW2 german magnetic sea mine with a pendulum switch in a magnetic field, the wire color's was red and blue,one of the first movies with cutting wires in different colors. ...also, a Mac Gyver episode is a copy of this movie .. Funny: In the movie Speed,the actor shorts a fiber optic cable with a cooper wire.
Yes but he didn't tell his colleagues what he was doing; if he had got it wrong and had blown up his colleagues would have assumed he had cut the blue wire as he had said and would have all cut the red wire.
“We don’t pull up wires to see where they go.” 💀
My only complaint is that all of the "mistakes" identified in Bodyguard were actually addressed in the series. The cover was removed earlier in the episode. And the techs had an identical bomb vest that they'd studied in depth, so they knew exactly where to put the alligator clip jumper. It was a great show
It was absurd and dishonest. Typical BBC propaganda.
The whole point of the hurt locker is how careless he is with the bombs
It made made whilst the war was still happening so it was done with the intention of not giving away the methods used to defeat devices
But it is unrealistic to have a careless EOD tech. That's the biggest 0/10.
@@cjstrashvideoemporium6484 I knew plenty of people who did this crap. We called them cowboys before the movie even came out which was ripped off by an ex SGM that disliked the real stories of the SSG Sarvier, and he sued them 3 times but lost each time.
Also the SPC who was in the movie was eventually my 1sg at Campbell.
Point is EOD people also do dumb things to be cool guys or maybe it's laziness. I know the Marines so it that way because the Navy doesn't give them much of a budget.
@@hankmardukas1249 somewhat true but mostly from the 2nd hand storytelling of a pos SGM.
@@nopenope9945 every EOD tech is careless, the ones who don't admit it are dangerously lucky until they're not or never saw one up close...
You got me at, "I'd like to be able to say I've never seen anyone bring a live IED back...but I have. ".
To be fair, in MI: Fallout, they had complete schematics to the nukes and knew exactly how to defuse them.
Ok Tom.
@@mark-ish Leave Tom alone, you bully.
Even then no one would make a machine as complicated as that. Turn clockwise and press a button at the exact time as you’re cutting the wire. The bomb maker is basically wasting his time adding all that unnecessary feature. It’s a bomb not a bethesda video game.
Actually Lloyd is showing his young age. Bomb techs DID used to use Liquid Nitrogen to freeze electronics, which could slow the electronics especially from the era of the movie.
Particularly loved the 10 minutes of ads disrupting the video...
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"Pop quiz hot shot!" How did we forget Speed? Harry is frowning from heaven.
What do you do ? ... What do you do? ;-)
I came here hoping for this
As bombs go, 0/10 lol. Golden analogical watch timer magic haha.
Literally the only movie i wanted to see what he thought!!
It's probably for the best that movies suck at portraying bomb building.
I bet at least some do it on purpose. I know for sure movies about drugs often get chemistry wrong on purpose.
U can find books on that stuff easily on Amazon or at your local library.
because you definitely can't find this information on the Web
@@nielsssg Of course you can, but I suppose it would trigger some bells somewhere that watching a massively distributed film couldn't.
Da Vinci designed a tank, but the cranks were designed backward. Hard to believe he simply made a mistake.
“I’d like to say no one has ever brought an IED into a police station....” Wait, what??
The dry sense of humour of these guys is hilarious.
I think the one from speed is commonly used “any luck with the bomb”
“Yes it didn’t go off”
I'm giving this video a 10 out of 10. He was very honest about what he knows. He did not sugar coat. I like videos like this. I learn alot like Physics. Lol right?
The Mythbusters tried the toilet bomb scene. They we're not freezing the switch. They froze the battery. As anyone with a car knows, freezing a battery lowers the power output. Freeze it cold enough and it might be too weak to detonate.
"Might".
I presume the point of the secondary C4 charge was precisely to blow up the sealed room and spread the gas into the rest of the building, where people aren't wearing hazmat suits.
"Yep, yep... of course you'd stroke it. That's fine." Lmao.. his sarcasm
I want to see him play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
There's a Buzzfeed video of this. It's very impressive, The two bomb technicians are excellent at communicating with each other
This guy is harder on the ratings than an Asian parent when their kid brings home a B+😁
Lol
You mean an A-
@@davidlee1770 You mean an A
Looooooool yeah like even Hurt Locker? Damn, dude
@@9to5Drone hurt locker is pretty unrealistic
It seems to me that the trope of the expert knowing all the details of a bomb is a holdover from WW2, when the experts would be dealing with mass-produced bombs with identical characteristics. "Oh, yeah, this is a Volkswaffenherstellar Verdammtgrossebomben 2000kg Mk18. Measure 18" counterclockwise from the inspection plate, drill through the case and cut the wire for the anti-handling device, then proceed as you would for the 1000kg Mk17. If it starts ticking run like hell."
Harder to do these days, as you don't get so many mass-produced bombs thrown around (well, not at _us)._ IEDs are improvised so there's no standard, though many are produced according to patterns evolved by experienced IED-makers; I'd guess that there are characteristics you can identify, though nothing as certain as the script and actors can portray.
naming xD
Lol, that name of the Ww2 Bomb^^ Afaik weapon removal guys in Germany are still somewhat busy with WW2 remanants, if I remember correctly there are still thousands suspected to be left in the ground
@@johnuferbach9166 Oh, for sure. I read of a Belgian farmer who recently uncovered a cache of _First_ World War gas shells in one of his fields.
And then there's that British bomb in Poland that exploded a few weeks ago. If you ever visit Europe, be careful where you tread. ;)
lol for anyone wondering about the German, that is a "people's weapon manufacturer damn big bomb".
These bombs/musicians are still found and that kind of work is still being done. Defusing s one thing then it has to be destroyed or deposed of correctly.
This is 💣💥
what
This is bomb what?
@@tripakastayw6872
They'll give a Tick to literally anybody these days...
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@@residentelect well he has 350k subs so whats the surprise there?
How about the bomb scene in The Naked Gun 2½? I would really like to know if simply unplugging the bomb from the wall would work.
If there was only 1 power source, usually a battery not AC, yes...mostly. also no capacitors.
Removing the power source, separating the main charge from initial charge (initiator / detonator / blasting cap), or attacking the switch is the proper way. In that order but situation dependent of course.
Former terrorist rates terrorist attacks in movies (and news)
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Guest speaker: That bombstrap is totally unrealistic. Normally when you cut the strap like that it would go off in a heartbeat, here let me demonstrate...
Producer: NOOOO!!
@@reznovvazileski3193 lmfaoo
I know Mythbusters tested the Lethal Weapon 2 scene. They put pressure sensors in a cast iron tub, and the tub did, in fact, actually deflect the shock wave. I remember they froze C4 with Liquid N2, and it didn't thaw for several minutes. Then they burned C4 and smashed it, and contrary to what I was told by my grandfather, it didn't explode either.
A friend of mine was with the Royal Marines in afghanistan. He told me a story of how they were patrolling on foot and got hit by a daisy chained IED. They triggered it as the first guy got to the beginning of the chain and it went right down the line. He lived but he witnessed some really horrible things that day. He killed him self a few years ago. I don’t think he ever really got past it or other things that happened to him there.
Pretty dark that he rated having to abandon disarming a suicide vest and watching the guy blow up as realistic.
There was nothing he could do for him, what would be the point killing yourself needlessly?
Would love to see him play "keep talking and nobody explodes" with somebody who isnt an EOD expert and see how it goes.
Oh my god yes
The bomb defusers transmission stops abruptly
*CONCERNED*
Then you send the next bomb tech to defuse the next bomb, and DON'T DO THE LAST THING LAST GUY SAID HE DID OVER THE RADIO! That's why they tell what they're doing step by step when they're doing it.
@@TestTest12332 Operator on radio: Okay don't cut the red wire that got the last guy!
Bomb maker: hehe I switched the cables on that one >:)
Never rely on two bombs being the same design :p
A two-stage warhead utilizing both nerve agent and explosives would actually make sense if you were to specifically target a facility that makes use of sealed rooms or haz-mat equiptment. The nerve gas is deadly, but only if it can be spread around. So you ensure that it can be spread around.
What these guys do is so incredibly terrifying. War is nerve wracking enough without having to worry about IEDs..
At 10:35, if I remember correctly, the Mythbusters actally tested that and if im not mistaken it was found to actually work in princable, the liquid nitrogen essentally just froze that battery and dissabled the detonator. Although I totaly understand that you wouldn't necessarily want to do that in a real situation, as he said, you wouldn't know how the device would react to the loss of power like that
In the Mythbusters episode, using liquid nitrogen actually worked even better than it did in the movie. They could have strolled out of the room at their leisure.
I don't have EOD experience, but I do have some electronics knowledge, and I think making a bomb that will go off if its battery is removed or disabled would be quite difficult, as I think detonators require a decent amount of power, so even if you could power the logic off a capacitor bank, running the detonators would be more complicated. You could have two batteries connected independently and add the logic to have the bomb explode if one was removed, but that'd be a decent bit of design effort, and the bomb maker would have to be thinking about that method of defusal
The whole "I just stood on a landmine" thing comes from WW2 anti-personnel landmines, such as Bouncing Betties, that did indeed function like that. They had little antennae that your foot would break, then when you stepped off them they would be fired into the air to about groin height and explode, blasting shrapnel out in a radius injuring or killing everyone nearby. They couldn't jump up until you stepped off them which is why this idea has hung around pop culture.
[Edit to stop people who don't bother reading threads before replying: I'm wrong about it waiting until you step off it]
Not true bud. When you hit the "antenna" as you say it would shoot a firing pin down into a pyrotechnic delay which would then launch the charge into the air after a few seconds. So standing on it would not stop it. It would more and likely hit you in the nuts and land on the ground where the secondary fuze would set it off ground level. Just spreading some knowledge
Or better yet it could be attached to a trip line instead of being stepped on
@@lambchop6210 Huh, looks like I've fallen victim to US WW2 propoganda that incorrectly said that's how they worked. Doh! Thanks for the correction.
There are such mines that would work like they did in the scene. One of these mines is the M16, not to be confused with the rifle. These types of mines are called bounding mines. Wikipedia lists 42 different models.
@@orlock20 dude theres alot of mines out there. Just gonna be straight though it's kinda hard to make a pressure release mine that's reliable and useable. Something has to be the physical block to stop it from going in the first place. Then someone has to step on it that will somehow cause that physical block to be moved now making the victims foot the physical block? Sounds dumb
Mythbusters proved every single part of the lethal weapon scene is possible. The liquid nitrogen actually rendered the electrical circuit safe for minutes
I heard that LN can slow down electronics too. Isn't that a way to extract passwords from ram?
@@superslimanoniem4712 if anything it would speed them up, heat creates resistance in electrical circuits, that's why at the large hadron collider a lot of the electronics are cooled to near absolute zero, what you would be trying to freeze is the mechanisms inside. But without knowing exactly what they are and where and how much they'd need to be cooled would be a wildly unprofessional move.
There are people out there that know how to disarm "improvised nuclear devices." That is the most interesting thing I heard in the entire video. Let's meet that person. The thought that a job like like that even exists is terrifying.
Funny thing is in hurt locker he plays a character who doesn't care if he dies
Yeah he's purposefully very reckless, I feel like that deserved a mention as it was important in the context of that film in particular
Indeed.
Certainly, but don't you think that a guy that reckless would be eventually kicked out of the armed forces?
Michael Bay movie rated 0/10 for accuracy...
Me: A bit generous, don't you think?
When I started watching the video, I was thinking that it would be wonderful if he watched Juggernaut, but they would certainly never include an older, lesser known movie like that. Score! However, I have to give him a 3 out of 10 for the fact that it looks like they only showed him the brief clip that he played. The red vs. blue wire was at the very end after they disarmed a whole bunch of other complicated devices inside the bombs. I would love to see him rate the entire process, not just that last moment.
He was dead right to criticize the final moment, though, but not his reasoning for it. Harris's character correctly susses out that Freddie Jones was lying about which wire to cut, so no, he was not wrong to change the plan. But it has always bugged me that he did not announce his switch. If he was wrong about the lie, it would have cost at least one more team member his life.
This guy is so interesting to listen to! These are brilliant videos, loved the sniper one too. Thanks to these really brave people who put their lives on the line to keep us all safe.
lol, yeah sure
I was expecting a detailed analysis of "countdown timers". If a bomb is designed and placed to "not be found", the builder knows how much time is left and from his perspective nobody else needs to know. Even if used for extortion, it would have to be deactivated remotely, but still the builder knows the time left. The only purpose is letting the audience know, but as far s the builder is concerned, there is no audience.
Remember that anything he says could be used by the fuc***g IED makers to improve their designs. So no, expect absolutely zero analysis about anything. Let's keep it that way.
@@rhr-p7w You know in real life bomb makers don't put them? It's a Hollywood/TV thing.
@@rhr-p7w It's easier to make a timer without a UI than one with.
Or alternatively if there is a timer, who knows what that means? It could detonate 5 seconds after reaching zero, or it have several minutes remaining before exploding. Only the bomb maker would know.
He's got one of those calm, slightly posh voices that if I was stuck somewhere with a bomb he'd make me feel safe, like an airplane captains voice
Funny that. A panel show asked if a pilot were to say "We've run into some trouble and we'll have to make an emergency landing", what accent would you like the pilot to have? They all said positively not Birmingham and David Mitchell said posh because they always skate by, have sex with all the stewardesses, never caught by his wife.
@@drasticwillb I'm gonna guest that was either 8 out of 10 cats or Mock the Week?
I cant remember the film but years ago I saw one where the countdown was doing it's thing and the demo guys were racing the clock and all of a sudden it beeped at like 2:19. Turns out it was an instructor letting the bomb techs know that bad guys watch movies too and countdown timers are bullshit.
Nothing but respect for the guys who do this, one of if not the most dangerous job on the planet
Loved his ratings. Especially the one at the end
This list cannot be complete without Sterling Archer’s attempt to disarm a bomb on a blimp. From the animated show “Archer.”
whoever is reading this comment may his her parents live long for 100 years ameen
LD's wry smile throughout this commentary is very cool.
I would have liked to see a critique of the classic bomb disposal mini-series, Danger UXB.
And a little trivia. There were more bomb disposal people killed after WW2 ended clearing British bombs from piers than were killed clearing German bombs.
I love that show! It's a favorite in the EOD community.
They actually did the Lethal weapon 2 bomb scene in Mythbusters and found that spraying liquid nitrogen on the bomb would not only diffuse it, but Murtaugh could have just got up off the toliet and walked away just fine.
I've always wondered about landmines just not immediately going off. Its happened in so many movies I just kinda presumed it was accurate though it seemed a weird design feature
I also find it equally hilarious and worrying the few times bombs were just strewn about in police departments and his response was "....yeah, that happens"
You really don't want to know how many 'sus packages' and grenades also arrive in Police stations.
@@pixiniarts not enough I’d guess
The very first scene with the landmine, you missed a very important detail - Tyler Grey is a Former Special Forces Operator himself formerly with 75th Rangers and Delta Force/CAG. After he became injured he turned to acting, with SEALs being his first major hit series to act within. He taught most of the tactics and terminology to the rest of the actors. Also Additionally - Justin Melnick is a Police Officer and the owner of "Dita The Fur Missile Dog" a Lawfully sworn K9.
Given Tyler's background, he would know EXACTLY how to react, and was also one of the direct set advisors while acting himself.
i was waiting the whole time what´s hes gonna say to the a-bomb disposal scene from naked gun. when lesley nielson stumbles over the power chord ^^
In case anyone doesn't know, "defence consultant" means merc boss
The guy on the mine from SEAL Team is Tyler Grey, who was a Delta Operator before becoming a technical consultant and actor.
That's good for him but actors and even advisors rarely have the final say on screenplay writing, usually if the writer wanted a scene where they step on a mine and have to defuse it in the field it's going to happen regardless of realism or experience of the actors/advisors.
Thats cool to know. I do think that a lot of stuff in Seal Team looks good, but they do have that Hollywood mark all over it. On how they act against their councelers and stuff.
I also would imagine that mines like these exist for areas you may want to mine but mostly to slow people down. That escape is an option if you have the time to manage it. Also: if a mine hasn't gone off when you pressed it, there would still be a chance of it going off when you step off, so I still think its a valid scene for that.
Maybe done on purpose not give terrorist useful information
Full metal is also a former operator
Scene would be completely different if it just blew up... I mean where's the suspense in that.
Real mines can function like that, less than 1% by design, but it's possible the primer became impinged making it super pissed off and ready to blow at the slightest movement.
Think of a bullet primer being struck by the firing pin (much sharper) and being stuck inside the primer of the bullet. Friction sets it off in addition to impact.
I did a little work with explosives in Vietnam. At one time, i set up an anti-vehicle mine, and booby trapped it. I would never be in EOD. I would just blow anything questionable in place. Sorry bout the mess. I actually did that once too.
Years later I met someone who had been EOD. Instructing him on his computer was fascinating. Every thing I told him to do, he would repeat it silently in his head, and did EXACTLY what I had told him. I asked. And that is when he told me he had been EOD. Made perfect sense and earned lots of respect.
7:53, did dude just try to grab a nuclear demon core with his bare hands?
"Well, that did it"
Yeah he did. Pretty smart considering those cores are very stable and not at all radioactive.
A fun little activity is to get a screwdriver and just poke the core on different places to see what happens. I reckon you'll get pretty doozy 10 minutes in, loads of fun. You'll get the longest sleep you've ever had after that.
@@odethious5639 I have a better one.
Take that screwdriver, get some tungsten carbide in a sphere and then hold the core just off of the tungsten or vice versa with the screwdriver until you're tired.
The bright blue flash will let you know when the game is over.
Also are you seriously trying to tell me a demon core (14 pound ball of weaponised plutonium) is safe to hold in your hands?
Damn!
Slotin and Daghlian would be amazed!
@@loumorningstar7709
You're thinking of two half spheres of beryllium. For quicker results, ditch the screwdriver and just close them together with the demon core inside. Fans of Dragon Ball Z would love this!
@@odethious5639 Daghlian used Beryllium, the first core was housed in Tungsten Carbide by Slotin. Both are neutron reflectors.
Although neither experiment ended well so its a moot point I guess.
@@loumorningstar7709 first experiment used bricks of tungsten carbide. The spheres for the second experiment were of beryllium.
An EOD I'd worked with hated proximity switched explosives. Wouldn't speak about his former military work too much, but we became good friends. His personality was much like the individual in this video. We'd have to take long drives as part of the job and he shared some very interesting stories. The guy was super cool under stress.
Great video, to bad of the audio. But i defintly want to see Lloyd reacts on more bomb movie scenes voor example: Speed.
That first guy who stepped on the mine is Tyler Grey. Was a member of the Unit (Delta). Total bad ass humble guy.
The irony is technically speaking the bomb around 11:00 actually would be rendered inert due to the batteries freezing and therefore having no electrical current. The mythbusters tested this scene and instead of a delay it just doesn’t activate until the nitrogen boils off
Dude, i love this series. Im learning so many things. Now i know that its better to make bombs that go off on initial depression rather than release
Congratulations, you are now probably in a government watch list. 🥴
What I find unrealistic about the first one is the guy is standing on a mine and everyone is just standing around looking at him waiting to get blown up too
He is the first one I saw with such brutal scoring on the channel.
I could NEVER do this Job. This Dude is Definitely keeping it REAL.
Some of these experts are savages with scoring. Love it!
That whole "the Mine goes of after the pressure release" comes, as far as I know, from the German WWII S-Mine which did go of some secondes after presure was put on them. They were designed to jump into the air and shot fragments around them.
Indeed there is a very short delay but it can’t be stopped by remaining standing on it
I like that this man, who has seen bad things, is try not to laugh. *Respect!
I realize this one is a bit old, but would like to have heard his comments on Danger: UXB.
A watched a Spanish Technician deal with a pressure cooker frag bomb. Hiding behind a concrete pillar. Camera footage later indicated well too close. Thanks god. He didn't suit up at all. Just jeans and a short sleeve shirt. What a man.
there wasa movie in the 80's (with john lithgow) about a kid who built a small nuclear bomb for a science fair (the manhattan project?)... i'd love to see his take on both the build and the disarm at the end!
Bonus Points: it's based on a true story. The nuclear boyscout.
Excellent. This is far better than the last video I saw a car flying straight between buildings getting 8/10.
Mythbusters, episode 178, actually tested the liquid nitrogen bomb from lethal weapon and confirmed that it worked!
I don't think he is saying that it won't ever work. He is saying that it is incredibly careless to jump into using liquid nitrogen without exploring other options since you don't have the full knowledge of how the bomb is created.
Came here for this comment, re watching myth busters and just seen this episode
Ohh Man, You DESTROYED "The ROCK" for me. Damnit!! Nicholas & Sir Sean.
This dude is speaking through a straw
Each episode
This dude is speaking through his arse
Really bad audio
"Danger UXB", a British miniseries from 1979, was excellent. "The only unit with funerals, but no burials."
The audio needs work. It was difficult to understand him.
The audio isn’t the issue, it’s the recording device. Dudes more than likely using a mic built in to his laptop.
I was not able to understand enough ... As a foreigner (German)
@Alexander Supertramp they are not accurate
In Juggernaut, he switches to the red wire because he understands the psychology behind the actions of the criminal saying "cut the blue one" more and more impatiently. Unfortunately our expert does not understand that nuance from the movie.
It's likely he has never seen it, neither have I and from that clip alone I never knew the guy saying cut the blue wire was a criminal. The expert talked about how it was realistic to have communication with someone else when discussing how to disarm the bomb because they aren't under as much stress, so can think more clearly. That's why the film got such a high score.
I believe had the expert known it was the criminal that was in communication, it would have got a much lower score.
I wish you had done the end of The Peacemaker where Kidman and Clooney disarm a backpack nuke by by digging off a section of the implosion explosive sphere and make it not symmetrical. The explosives detonate, but they don't initiate an nuclear explosion. On the other hand I just watched the scene and wondered why she wouldn't have just cut harness wires.
I’m glad he said he wants to interact with the bomb as little as possible. I hate how in movies whenever the “bomb expert” comes in they start rubbing the bomb n shit like they’re about to read it a story and put it to bed like... it’s a bomb. Nobody wants to be near it lmao
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Could do a whole episode of this guy about Bluestone 42. Cracking show.
I saw a show where a guy disabled a compact nuclear bomb by just slightly damaging the explosives on the outside. Didn't even try to stop the timer. It eventually went off but since the explosives were no longer perfect it couldn't go nuclear.
Peacemaker. Nicole Kidman did that to the nuke in NYC in the final stages of the movie. They should have included that to be reviewed here.