1,000,000 FPS Bullet Impacts - SPECTACULAR!!

[Gaillo]

An oldie but goodie... probably the best non-political video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg

Note that the kinetic energy involved does not technically "melt" the lead and copper jacket, but there is enough energy to make the metal behave like a liquid! Be sure to watch to the end - the birdshot and buckshot clips are amazing!

At an average of 4 seconds per impact, slowed down to 30 fps, we're looking at approx. 120 frames per impact. At 1,000,000 frames per second, that works out to about 1/10,000 of a second of real-time passing per impact!

If anyone likes the "Techno/Trance" music in the background, it is:

Song: Temple (J-Punch Tribal Edit)
Artist: Hook the Captain
Album: Bang it Forward

Enjoy!

[Ponce]

Thanks Gaillo, that was fun to watch........... movie taken with a "Photosonic" camera, they are in Los Angeles, I used to work for them as a lathe machinist.

[MAGNES]

Wow , that is pretty incredible. I have seen other but that is one of the best ones.
Some of those impacts are as beautiful as flowers. It would be interesting to
see different plates and different bullets as an experiment for comparison.
What kind of steel is that and is it the same plate ?

Notice the gel and expanding round, go for hydrashok all the way.

[hoarder]

Shame they didn't describe the caliber, velocities and material being shot instead of playing that disco music.

[JohnQPublic]

Pretty wild stuff. Each caliber/material/velocity/target/ etc. has a characteristic pattern. Sort of like (but perhaps a bit more interesting than) characteristic sparking on a grinding wheel with different metals.

[vacuum]

I thought the speed at which the glass fragments at 3:03 - 3:09 was pretty amazing. Also the liquidation of the bullets.

[gunDriller]

1 million frames per second - or one million feet per second ?

that would be about 200 miles per hour.

must be frames per second.

[Gaillo]

1 million frames per second - or one million feet per second ?

that would be about 200 miles per hour.

must be frames per second.


From my original post:


At an average of 4 seconds per impact, slowed down to 30 fps, we're looking at approx. 120 frames per impact. At 1,000,000 frames per second, that works out to about 1/10,000 of a second of real-time passing per impact!

[willie pete]

the ones at or right before the 1 minute mark are AP rds

[Awoke]

Neat video to watch. It stops looking "real" after a while, and looks computer generated, but it's probably just the camera settings?