Using a hydraulic press, we will test the strength of a depleted uranium sample. The core of a projectile from a GAU 8 Advenger cannon
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@bluecordprecisiongrading25048 ай бұрын
I got cancer from Depleted Uranium from patrolling areas hit by A10 gun fire and other platforms using DU penetrators. Once those projectiles hit, they explode and that DU dust can cause a lot of health problems. Awesome video by the way
@shaylethorne23878 ай бұрын
I'm not disputing this, but isn't depleted specifically non radioactive? How did that cause cancer?
@jerrb79918 ай бұрын
@@shaylethorne2387it's slightly radioactive, but the major problem is that when used as amo it pulverize in an extremely fine dust that can be inhaled and reach the lungs
@CRAZYHORSE196820038 ай бұрын
@@shaylethorne2387 People in Afghanistan and Iraq have a high cancer rates and birth defects from breathing in DU dust.
@znakrip8 ай бұрын
@@shaylethorne2387 Depleted uranium - contains 99.7% Uranium-238 with a half-life of 4.4 billion years, and 0.3% Uranium-235 with a half-life of 700 million years. As we see, there are no stable isotopes in depleted uranium
@bluecordprecisiongrading25048 ай бұрын
@shaylethorne2387 there are a lot of studies on this and show conclusive long term negative health effects, including cancer when the DU dust is inhaled. My medic died from inoperable brain cancer less than 3 years after our deployment and numerous others in my task force have predeceased me. This year is 20 years since I've been out. I get a 100% P+T which is some consolation and dozens of VA doctor's appointments each year
@LouisEmery7 ай бұрын
Thank you for not talking. And not putting on music during the press sequence (well, for most of them). I'd like to hear the machines.
@stealthisdkey7 ай бұрын
exactly ❤
@NorbertNagy-y8g5 ай бұрын
or fancy trendy face camera or will be famous streamer ambitions
@JadeHare12 ай бұрын
That shitty remake of terminator theme is a pain in the balls!!
@JoliettesParadiseAdventures2 ай бұрын
Some epic asmr right 😛😛
@hydraman0077 ай бұрын
Me in the kitchen putting back my uranium shell in the drawer after reading the do not repeat at home warning.
@Sameer27627 ай бұрын
Now I'm thinking someone will come up with the idea of putting this thing into the microwave oven just for a video's sake!
@MarcosAlvesdosSantos-s2j7 ай бұрын
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk😂
@Inner_zee8 ай бұрын
"Don't try this at home" like i have uranium at home 😂
@pubert48458 ай бұрын
Or a 500 ton press!
@richardcranium47538 ай бұрын
Depleted Uranium is not entirely depleted. When it is entirely depleted of its radioactivity it becomes Lead. That's one reason why Lead is so good at shielding against radiation.
@frozenstar70488 ай бұрын
it's actually not very hard to get, just know where to look
@SuperCanuck7778 ай бұрын
@@frozenstar7048 Yes sure, like corrupt politicians
@meSOOlame8 ай бұрын
@@richardcranium4753depleted uranium turns to lead? Dafuq u talking about?
@MrHeuvaladao7 ай бұрын
Depleted uranium isn't used because it is hard. It's used because it is dense. Just like lead.
@oivasnamok40907 ай бұрын
I always thought Uranium wasn't smart. Dense, indeed!
@raduradu12897 ай бұрын
Depleted uranium is used in projectiles due to its high density, which increases impact energy.
@mumujibirb7 ай бұрын
also something about self sharpening?
@Weisior7 ай бұрын
@@mumujibirb It has adiabatic properties, in technical term. am I smurt?
@corsayr96297 ай бұрын
and cheap, it is basically industrial waste from enrichment procedures. Tungston is not cheap.
@agerven7 ай бұрын
My dad did mathematics on metal strength under varying circumstances. He would have loved your videos! As a physicist i also like and respect your videos. In this particular case it would have been nice to measure the temperatures of the armor as well as the cones before and afterwards.
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
Why use depleted uranium instead of tungsten? Depleted Uranium Penetrator Rounds | Museum of Radiation and ... Tungsten, which has a similar density to uranium, can also be used but DU has greater target penetration. Unlike tungsten, uranium is pyrophoric( becomes a plasma). It also has a lower melting point than tungsten. As a DU penetrator strikes a target, its surface temperature increases dramatically.
@agerven7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the extra information!@@johnnyllooddte3415
@MainInternetUser7 ай бұрын
@@johnnyllooddte3415 Isn't DU cheaper ?
@Lethal-Science3 ай бұрын
@johnnyllooddte3415 depleted Uranium is way cheaper, easier to machine and is more abundant than Tungsten
@Hat_Uncle7 ай бұрын
We had one of these as kids in the 70's. My dad worked on the 30mm autocannon system for the A-10. Fling it down the road and see all the long bright sparks, for a decade at least. LOL
@raiden727 ай бұрын
I don't see how tossing a dangerous radioactive isotope down the street is really funny if the next generations of people inhale the radioactive dust particles for millions of years to come but maybe I am misunderstanding the implications of mishandling uranium...
@joeblow17487 ай бұрын
What?!
@Hat_Uncle7 ай бұрын
@@joeblow1748 yeah, 30mm depleted uranium slug, it was a "toy" from at least 1975-1985. I actually got to press the button to test fire one of these guns, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1979. They were manufactured in South Burlington, VT, by General Electric and shipped via ferry across Lake Champlain to Plattsburgh AFB
@heheheh69heheh7 ай бұрын
Can I have 5423 ammunitions please 🥺
@KennyT1877 ай бұрын
...and now 20% of the neighborhood has cancer because of you spreading uranium dust around 😝 kidding, but I wonder didn't your dad know it's still potentially dangerous?
@josephsheranda7 ай бұрын
So today we learned how to turn a depleted uranium penetrator into a crayon.
@dromnispank47237 ай бұрын
I bet that tungsten carbide couldn't pierce my mum's homemade cookies!
@arthurmchugh51847 ай бұрын
Put it up against 5 day old Mac Donald fries 😂😂😂
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
i bet it couldn't pierce my sisters bung hole either.. god know's i've tried
@Axacqk8 ай бұрын
That uranium sure feels depleted now.
@davidanalyst6717 ай бұрын
so read through the comments if you want to know why we use depleted uranium in tank guns everywhere. It has to do with the ballistics and materials. But other than that, great joke
@ЕвгенийЗ-о7с7 ай бұрын
@@davidanalyst671 You're trying to make the whole world radioactive!
@dbrown22647 ай бұрын
That was funny man. Deflated Uranium.
@EXPLORADVEN6 ай бұрын
Under-rated comment 🤣🤣🤣
@pnkflyd662 ай бұрын
And defeated
@NicolaiP7 ай бұрын
I Like how natürlich your Videos Sounds. No Music No extra Just the screm of Metals and the Press sounds
@edelweiss-6 ай бұрын
natural. lol. Klingt fast gleich. ich schreibe auch manchmal Denglisch wenn mir das Wort nicht einfällt, aber da wars doch einfach. Komm schon :)
@anthonywarwick60907 ай бұрын
Very nicely done. Love the only noise being the press and compression of the metals. Thanks 🙏
@jamesschenk7 ай бұрын
That tungsten punched through that steel like it was clay
@CC-ns2ds7 ай бұрын
Yes the tungsten carbide is harder but depleted uranium is specifically used because when it impacts something it actually gets sharper and pens further.
@Biketunerfy8 ай бұрын
You have to remember that DU is very dense and heavy and it actually self sharpens as it penetrates armour and burns its way through armour and you need speed to do this. A press is not fast enough to ignite the uranium and you would not want to either because it’s toxic in the air.
@tiagodagostini8 ай бұрын
That self sharpens is a MYTH. DU do shed its edge barbs as its tensile strength is low. SO It drops any edges of the mushrum edge that naturally form during terminal ballistic interactions. That is NOT self sharpening, The tip is not kept SHARP by any magical interaction. All it does is lose edge material that could form a secodn edge that would increase penetration resistance.
@Biketunerfy8 ай бұрын
@@tiagodagostini Wrong. Like its slightly denser cousin, tungsten, uranium can penetrate most heavy armor. But whereas tungsten projectiles become rounded at the tip upon impact, uranium shells burn away at the edges. This "self-sharpening" helps them bore into armor. - source Scientific American. I’ve also seen ballistic projections of what happens during the uraniums self sharpening as its burns and bores its way through armour. Yes the sides burn away which leaves a sharpened tip. Who taught you this ?
@tiagodagostini7 ай бұрын
@@Biketunerfy maybe you should read less scientific american and read more proper papers. The sheddign of the blunt edges is nearly irrelevant toward penetration. Because the so called"burning" expends energy, energy that comes from the projectile... and less available energy to break the armor therefore ( modern armor is Energy expenditure oriented, not resistance oriented) in an attempt to explain to layman the term SHARPENING is used, but sharpness is IRRELEVANT when you have a projectile trying to progress trough a cristaline solid at a speed higher than the speed of sound on given material.
@Biketunerfy7 ай бұрын
; @@tiagodagostini I do and the facts haven’t changed, but anyway I digress, the new German higher pressure gun (smoothbore) in challenger 3 MBTs, the Brits ,reported back the new TC APFSDS was more effective at penetrating armour than their DU from challenger 2s main rifled gun. Obviously the tungsten carbide is routinely tweaked and improved to get the most performance out of kinetic energy darts.
@fabiolimadasilva33987 ай бұрын
You must check mechanical behaviour by means of Hopkinson testing bar.
@unarmored99738 ай бұрын
Certainly DU is usually on par with Tungsten as a penetrator, USA just uses DU in everything because it's WAY cheaper than Tungsten -both in material cost and manufacturing. This footage doesn't exactly suggest the kinetic effects of the materials, but certainly Tungsten Carbide is some remarkable stuff!
@BlackEpyon8 ай бұрын
It also gives the DoE something to do with all that U-238 after all the useful U-235 has been extracted.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
@@BlackEpyon Also used in aircraft as counterweight, in keels and.. uh... golf clubs among other things !
@trumanhw7 ай бұрын
also, the DU is supposed to be "self sharpening" by some physical effect ... and is prone to catching fire (but so is titanium, etc). Granted, "self sharpening" is loose wording ... I know it's not exactly what it does but I did read it in a white paper.
@kz113777 ай бұрын
There is another factor.Tungsten carbide ore reserves are mostly found in quantities in non US friendly countries, such as China for example.
@radbilcz7 ай бұрын
@@kz11377DU is produced from spent nuclear fuel which is treated as waste and its disposal is very expensive. By producing DU we give a second life.
@nicholash72268 ай бұрын
What was the mass on the U vs the TC? Uranium rounds get their kinetic force from their density, not hardness.
@DaveHojo8 ай бұрын
that's what I thought as well, it relies on the mass/density and not the hardness.
@markcairns95748 ай бұрын
E=MC"2 - or something...
@nicholash72268 ай бұрын
Also, force = mass*acceleration. I love the bit in Mass Effect about the 20 kilo slug at 1.3% of light speed... "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest SOB in space." 😄
@jonmarquez1288 ай бұрын
That's because tungsten makes a good neutron reflector too!
@donaldg.freeman28047 ай бұрын
I was wondering what the point of this video was. I wanted to see him weigh each of those projectile points.
@godsamongmen80037 ай бұрын
I did some reading on depleted uranium and why the army uses it for some shells. It turns out part of the decision is economic -- depleted uranium isn't necessarily the best metal you could use, but it's a pretty good choice and there's so much of it left over after the enrichment process. When people say that uranium is self-sharpening, they mean that the metal will break into sharp fragments and dust when it hits something at really high speed. The dust is also not just toxic but also highly flammable, so a tank penetrated by uranium shells may end up with a fire inside. And uranium is one of the most dense metals (8th place, with Osmium and Iridium being the first and second most dense), making it good as a high-speed projectile.
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
so you googled it, now you're an expert? Thank you Professor MIT
@godsamongmen80032 ай бұрын
@@doctorbuga4302 Is that the way you see the world? That only an expert with a degree can do some reading on a topic and learn something? If I said that two plus two is four, would you argue with me because I don't have a math degree?
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
@@godsamongmen8003 correct, generally people that go on Wikipedia "to do some reading" and start regurgitating what they thought they learned in 10 minutes is just noise pollution, in this case, more appropriately, data pollution.
@godsamongmen80032 ай бұрын
@@doctorbuga4302 The 'experts' of the world have given us man-made famines because they thought they were fit to micromanage national economies. Today they argue biological sex doesn't exist and we need to get rid of academic standards in favour of ranking by skin colour. I'll take the word of a well-read layman over an expert any day. And you, you're just an ideologue who worships the chattering class. And it isn't making you any smarter.
@TheSpacehg7 ай бұрын
"Do not repeat at home" as if anyone has an industrial hydrolic press and a depleted uranium round handy lol
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
you don't??
@JupiterianGuy2 ай бұрын
Huh?? You don’t?
@rafalnowak33026 ай бұрын
Completely misunderstanding.... uranium core has self sharpens effect and this 45 mm steel from t34 is like butter target. We are talking about impact effect not pressing.
@zacharyroyce8 ай бұрын
The greater hardness of TC does not necessarily mean greater penetration, though it could indirectly through less deformity creating smaller surface area to penetrate and less deflected splash. Depleted uranium is waaaaay heavier or 'denser' per unit of volume ("density" is physics is mass per unit volume). Force = mass x acceleration. Translated into imprecise everyday language, the amount of penetration is a function of weight and speed. Increase either weight or speed of the projectile for a given caliber (contact area), increase penetration. You can shoot water through metal if you shoot it fast enough and fine enough.
@deathsheadknight21378 ай бұрын
look up the densities, TC is way more dense than i gave it credit for.
@zacharyroyce8 ай бұрын
@@deathsheadknight2137 Thanks, I never would have guessed that TC (15.6g/cm3) is denser than lead (11.3g/cm3) and getting up there with DU (19g/cm3). I had a TC wedding ring and it didn't seem that heavy, whereas lead seems heavy and I know DU is comparable to gold (19.3g/cm3), which is so heavy that a candy bar size is like 27 pounds. (I guess the TC wedding ring seemed light by comparison to a normal gold wedding ring!)
@RaytheonTechnologies_Official8 ай бұрын
As noted in another comment for this video, DU's real party trick is that it self sharpens upon a high speed impact. It heats up and kind of "burns" through armour (not really burning, but that's what it looks like in ballistics simulations). The pressure from the hydraulic press is very high, but is dissipated over a comparatively very long period, so it fails to demonstrate this effect.
@zacharyroyce7 ай бұрын
@@RaytheonTechnologies_Official You are repeating marketing nonsense, not physics. DU's penetrating capability is its weight, end of story. They put the heaviest thing they could into a tank round short of solid gold. That's all there is to it. Uncle Sam went to the ammo aisle at the sporting good store and said, "I want the heaviest ammunition I can get for this caliber. I'm shooting some big game." The fact that it gets glowing hot and deforms is just sound and fury, habitually employed by marketing and PR pros to obfuscate and awe the masses into a sense of their own ignorance so they accept what they are authoritatively told without attempting their own analysis or criticism, i.e. that such-and-such company has revolutionized the toothbrush or razor. You could talk the same nonsense about a normal rifle bullet piercing a metal plate, or even a metal knife going through butter. People are so uneducated today that they can't even tell the difference, and then they confidently repeat this nonsense like they are teaching the illiterate about science. How absurd you all sound! Stop absorbing science by osmosis over the internet and start reading books, old books, instead!!! They are a thousand times smarter. You all live in the dark ages and you don't even know it, you think you are the smartest, most knowledgeable people nature ever produced and yet you are rapidly sending humanity back to the baboon age!
@RaytheonTechnologies_Official7 ай бұрын
@@zacharyroyce "Tungsten has a much higher melting point (3410 °C) than uranium (1132 °C) and lacks pyrophoricity. Therefore, a tungsten projectile becomes blunt on impact and is less effective in piercing armor (Peterson, 1999). .... The surface of a DU penetrator ignites on impact (especially with steel), due to the high temperature generated by the impact and the relatively low melting point of uranium (1132 °C). In addition, the projectile sharpens as it melts and pierces heavy armor (Rostker, 1998). " - Properties, use and health effects of depleted uranium (DU): a general overview, A. Bleise, P.R. Danesi, W. Burkart, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 64 (2003) 93-112 . I brought receipts.
@Sparks00psn5 ай бұрын
“Don’t try this at home” What are you gonna do? Stop me? Sounds like a threat
@theghostofthomasjenkins96432 ай бұрын
you're not my dad.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
You cant imagine for how long I wanted to see such a comparison ! Other things have to be taken under consideration when used as ammo but this was enlightening. Thank you very much :)
@quickcinema80318 ай бұрын
it is just a metal, no propellant inside. it is safe
@democracyforall8 ай бұрын
I thought Uranium was something else but it looks like it is in the famil of iron, steel etc but has extra abilities???
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
@@quickcinema8031 I know and ?
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
@@democracyforall I dont know Urainiam I know Uranium. Look at a perdiodic table. Uranium is an actinide and has very little to do with iron. Steel is not an element: it's an alloy of iron and carbon.
@danroberts90507 ай бұрын
I can try to imagine. Tell me how long and I'll see if I can imagine it.
@ValerioDiBona3 ай бұрын
I like how you felt in need to protect one of the hardest materials on earth with padding in the box
@pipernigrum7 ай бұрын
The old Soviet tank: so that's where Elon's sourcing the body panels for the cybertruck!
@awesomebearaudiobooks7 ай бұрын
Cybertruck uses stainless steel, similar to many old tanks. However, old Soviet t-34 1940 Armour is about 15 to 40 mm steel, Soviet t-34 1942 is up to 60 mm steel, and cybertruck is only about 2 mm steel.
@Spradebasse1007 ай бұрын
Next time - highly enriched uranium
@kumbara84244 ай бұрын
And boom
@manurajpoot4828Ай бұрын
💀💀
@dionnedionne20458 ай бұрын
At 3:24 the piercing slug is entirely dark. At 4:02 the flat end is still dark. At 4:07 the pointed end is shiny which is totally understandable. At 4:28 the square end is still dark. Then at 4:38 about half of the square end is shiny. Extremely interesting demonstration, this channel is one of my favorites, my wife even watches.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
Just an oxide layer peeled away by friction but agreed: very interesting !
@driverjamescopeland8 ай бұрын
Depleted uranium AP shells depend on their outer casing to impart heat into the target before the uranium core penetrates. Tungsten just penetrates... but depleted uranium carries a TON of heat with it, basically scorching anything on the other side. If the shot gets full penetration on a tank (in/through/out), the interior gets a huge shockwave of pressure, searing heat, followed by a negative pressure wave (vacuum). You do NOT want to be hit with them in a sealed compartment of any kind.
@nigel9008 ай бұрын
Tungsten Carbide 👉🏻 15 grams per cubic cm Depleted Uranium 👉🏻 19 grams per cubic cm 👆🏻MORE MASS👆🏻
@tacet30458 ай бұрын
Not really that it carries a ton of heat with it rather DU is self sharpening, when it strikes a solid surface it fractures in a way that keeps the tip sharp as it penetrates the object, and that the heat generated from impact ignites the DU round and the DU dust created from its self sharpening
@jkutnink878 ай бұрын
Depleted rounds are very heavy which is why they are used. They have more penetration capabilities when shot than tungsten. Plus a key feature for the depleted round is that it sharpens itself as it penetrates.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
@@nigel900 The density is indeed important but so is hardness and the carbide is much harder.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
Oh my god a war thunder scientist. wrong on so many levels dude...
@DonutsProductions8 ай бұрын
Next, plutonium?
@Eisenwolf.de18 ай бұрын
😂😂
@jonmarquez1288 ай бұрын
Why the hell not! But hard too get
@andrelabbe53156 ай бұрын
With a piece of uranium 235
@Galihdutasuseno5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@moltoniron6333 ай бұрын
No Americium 😂😂
@neongirl8 ай бұрын
Other aircraft: Armed with 20mm six-barreled cannon. GAU-8: Armed with twin-engine A-10 attack aircraft.
@MONKMIKE8 ай бұрын
Yep. 👍👍😎
@jameschenard13868 ай бұрын
Exactly! It was for the most part, designed around the gun
@zanitzeuken7 ай бұрын
HA! YES
@Layd367 ай бұрын
Worthless scrap metal which causes cancer to civilians and leaving regions uninhabited for a long time
@BSfilter_1117 ай бұрын
GAU-8 is 30mm, M61 is also GE but in 20mm.
@hitman13198 ай бұрын
Uranium block sandwiched between 2 Nokia 3310 will probably become a nuclear bomb
@ntal58598 ай бұрын
Only if someone dials the number and you let it ring 3 times, unless Keanu Reeves can get between Sandra Bullock legs to diffuse in time, mind you she better not slow down either.
@onedayagogo7 ай бұрын
well, maybe, but it takes 10 hours to charge a DynaTAC 9000, so by that logic, the Nokia is virtually Transparent Aluminium. just don't get it wet after midnight though because if u cross the streams, it will become self aware at 2:14 a.m. on August 29th 1997 and I would definitely buy that for a dollar, but only in a rerun. welcome to the party, pal...
@Hoshimaru577 ай бұрын
Negative. It’s more complicated than that. Also DU doesn’t undergo prompt criticality fission. It will decay, but extremely slowly. Smacking it between 2 Nokias will just make a big puff of toxic dust.
@Mirai1xcp7 ай бұрын
@@ntal5859Dude 😂😂😂😂😂
@Auroral_Anomaly7 ай бұрын
If it was U-235 maybe.
@mattt1986543218 ай бұрын
This is possibly one of the best things I've ever seen.
@justwondering56518 ай бұрын
This is certainly one of the things I've seen.
@XB100018 ай бұрын
You need to live more
@johnsmith76767 ай бұрын
Then you have not lived, and have seen essentially NOTHING.
@PizziPuzzo-nl5bn7 ай бұрын
This is sad
@tormentorxl27328 ай бұрын
What was the weight of the two compared?
@deathsheadknight21378 ай бұрын
if they were the same volume, the DU would be like 15% heavier? (very rough estimate in my head based on respective densities.
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
. they have similar densities..DU uranium become plasma and burns thru the armor and explodes inside.. tungsten just passes thru both sides with little damage inside
@Pulsed1017 ай бұрын
Those hydraulic presses can be pretty scary.
@Adam-nv9zo8 ай бұрын
Uranium is a very dense metal, and depleted uranium can be put on the tips of tank shells, bullets, and mortar rounds to increase their ability to penetrate targets. Depleted uranium shells sharpen on impact at high velocities, which further increases their ability to bore through armor, and they also ignite after contact. Density and properties on impact are what make it so effective, not the hardness.
@Spacedog798 ай бұрын
When the uranium penetrates and burns it also sucks out all the oxygen so it kills everyone inside.
@ntal58598 ай бұрын
I hate the term depleted uranium as it sounds like it's safe but all they done is isolated out the u235 and left u238 which is still radioactive. Talk about selling a toxic radioactive health Hazzard as somewhat safe for tank ammo.
@Spacedog798 ай бұрын
@@ntal5859 Uranium is chemically toxic like lead or any other heavy metal, but it is not radioactive enough to pose a significant danger in that way.
@zeljkodejanovic87868 ай бұрын
@@Spacedog79 Ask the families of the contingent of the Italian Army who were in peacekeeping missions as part of KFOR, they all died of cancer. Go to Serbia and where A-10 was active, the incidence of cancer has increased by 700% since 1999. If it's not toxic, go to Serbia and find an armored vehicle that was hit by that ammunition and take some kind of souvenir. What the Americans say is safe is not true. Do you know that American tank soldiers who used that ammunition in Desert Storm also died of cancer. Italy proved the harmfulness of that ammunition and all the families received compensation.
@zeljkodejanovic87868 ай бұрын
@@ntal5859 you are right that the ammunition is not safe. In my country, many people got cancer because of that ammunition, and unfortunately that is not the end. Many are yet to receive it
@Jay-pm6xb6 ай бұрын
You showed the hardnest of the items, but what is the hardnest of the steel plate your pushing through???
@patton33387 ай бұрын
The improvement in armor quality over time is really impressive. Or maybe that WW2 Russian steel was really bad, would be curious how it compares to armor from a panzer or sherman etc. It was really interesting that some sort of spalling effect seemed to occur, almost like the squashing cone acted a bit like a Hesh round. Demonstrates why spall linings are pretty damn important.
@looke33927 ай бұрын
Demonstrates why m1 abrams should have a spall liner
@REexpert448 ай бұрын
To the Joker, its just a regular hydraulic press.
@SonneyLouis7 ай бұрын
Gen Z sits around and watches gen A break everything 😂😂😂
@Dickusification7 ай бұрын
Whilst gen x says we've seen it all before and the Boomers just go meh
@zanitzeuken7 ай бұрын
Ah, the GAU8. The gun they built a plane around.
@theschmedaparadox10187 ай бұрын
Yes it is
@Squamousepithilium8 ай бұрын
How nicely and quickly compared that ammo with coke bottle😂😂😂
@longboardfella53065 ай бұрын
It’s so good safety is your third priority. That’s a comfort for those of us planning to do this at home
@Lord0fPvnder7 ай бұрын
This is compressive force. Very different than how it works when fired out of a cannon
@mottscottison69437 ай бұрын
You can tell a morality of a country by just looking at the material they use for their Armor piercing penetrator : US and Nato - Depleted Uranium, China : Tungsten Carbide.
@Bouillon.al.mountadar5 ай бұрын
Nah i'ts ecolo we recycle our uranium
@rflberg8 ай бұрын
Uranium will get its power from its mass times velocity squared. Since the materials wasn't moving it was kind of a flop. But it was nice to see the hardness of the materials tested.
@pauljackson17447 ай бұрын
Not sure what your saying . F = MA anyways right?
@joekellyou7 ай бұрын
@@pauljackson1744the DU round is significantly heavier because of density. With the slow speeds of the press, hardness is more important, but at the speeds of the GAU-8 shot velocity, the density wins easily.
@Klovaneer7 ай бұрын
@@joekellyou WC isn't that far behind in density (15.6 vs 19). The projectile speeds make DU rounds _as_ effective but WC is more reliable. Why you can still see both in service in russia.
@carneeki7 ай бұрын
@@pauljackson1744kinetic energy: KE = (1/2) mv^2
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
sorry.. they have similar densities..DU uranium become plasma and burns thru the armor and explodes inside.. tungsten just passes thru both sides with little damage inside 1
@eternalme607722 күн бұрын
Wow, this is SO COOL! I was really shocked at the outcome of the modern armor plate. I also thought that the depleted uranium would easily pass through the steel plating as well. Anyways what an interesting display of strength....can't wait to see what else he's gonna try. 🎸♥️
@Dreamlink917 ай бұрын
Is the hydraulic press powered by 1.9 golf tdi ? xD
@marian_kanchev5 ай бұрын
Hahahahaha 131hp
@widsm4 ай бұрын
Lmao came here to say something along these lines
@Dest94507 ай бұрын
Depleted uranium is still a uranium. Its still a bit radioactive, so could be better not to handle it too many time. Also uranium is highly toxic chemically, and if it inhaled or consumed, you will be poisoned, additional to radiation exposure. Metallic uranium can easily oxidize (corrode) on air, and products of this you definitely want to avoid and don't let it go into drinking water. So be extremely careful with uranium, if you want your health to be in safe of course
@stargazer76447 ай бұрын
Depleted Uranium is barely radioactive. That's why it is "depleted". Handling it isn't going to hurt you. Try to resist eating it and you'll be fine.
@stefan22925 ай бұрын
The chemical toxicity of heavy radioactive elements is mostly shuck and jive. Sure, you don't want to handle it because once it gets into your body it tends to stay there and eventually cause cancer. But it isn't poison like arsenic.
@mjkhan96648 ай бұрын
I know nothing about DU but i was not expecting it to squish like that
@davidconner-shover518 ай бұрын
the stuff is just a bit harder than lead, the key is its mass
@Willl_b_7 ай бұрын
huh? it's much harder than lead@@davidconner-shover51
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
they have similar densities..DU uranium become plasma and burns thru the armor and explodes inside.. tungsten just passes thru both sides with little damage inside
@movelikejaeger19147 ай бұрын
the penetrating power of uranium rounds does not come from its hardness or toughness. It is a very dense material. If you have a dense projectile it can be smaller and carry more energy at a given speed compared to a less dense material. Penetration power is determined by how fast you can throw something heavy and small. So a small, dense and fast projectile has the most penetration even if its relatively soft.
@alquinn85767 ай бұрын
people say I'm very dense, and I'm not entirely sure what they mean by that, but perhaps it explains my penetrating wit
@movelikejaeger19147 ай бұрын
@@alquinn8576 haha good one
@liahfox58408 ай бұрын
The DU is used in it's application for how hot it burns not for it's hardness. 9mm bullet with a TC projectile will go right through lvl 4 body armor like nothing. Which is why it's "sale" was made illegal in 1984 I believe. Gotta use the right tool for the job! 😉
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
woww ..first correct answer.... they have similar densities..DU uranium become plasma and burns thru the armor and explodes inside.. tungsten just passes thru both sides with little damage inside 1
@Tchud5 ай бұрын
"Don't try this at home." Yeah, I guess I have to shut my nuclear reactor down!
@anmolkumar-dy6ky8 ай бұрын
2050 nuclear bomb vs hydraulic press
@solar9015 ай бұрын
Ok, I won't try to crush uranium with a hydraulic press at my home.
@ghlscitel67148 ай бұрын
Nice method for cleaning dirty tungsten carbide bolts.
@rickhalverson22528 ай бұрын
Armor ar500 2010... The block of steel was twice the size of your hand and thickness too. I'm not sure it's really steel. That would weigh so much, your skin would be pressing in on your fingers lifting it. I work with heavy chunks of steel like that very frequently, it's extremely heavy.
@ericcleland8178 ай бұрын
I thought it was very interesting to see the tungsten carbide puncture through the 12mm steel plate. I noticed how as the tungsten carbide pushed through the steel plate, the steel had a very interesting shiny color at the edge region of the tungsten carbide. I was wondering if it was in fact melting the steel as it was pushing through it due to heat caused by the pressure, but not exactly sure. I think a repeat of the tungsten carbide with a super close up and possibly even super slow motion would be amazing to see as it pushes through the steel plate. Thanks.
@KurwaRomek8 ай бұрын
I work as a machinist and for what it's worth, tungsten carbide doesn't really get to the point of melting steel because of steel's thermal conduction. Stainless steel can melt though since it doesn't conduct heat nearly as well and the tool doesn't absorb much heat neither.
@beingsentient8 ай бұрын
I noticed the same thing. I don't think it's melting, which would require high temperatures and we don't see smoke. Interesting is that he doesn't indicate that these metal targets must get hot with all that energy pushed into them. But I do know that metals flow because of high pressures. This is not melting, and it's how shape charges work. The high pressure from the explosion forms the metal cone of the shaped charge into a jet of flowing metal. Other than that, I have no other guess, unless it's an optical effect because of a change in crystal structure because of the high pressure.
@georgevindo7 ай бұрын
I thought it was just rust flaking off, exposing fresh metal.
@asdfdsf-s4u8 ай бұрын
why depleted urine have the hardness of chinesium? I was expecting the opposite
@huskytail8 ай бұрын
Wears gloves for protection from something that won't get through skin. Proceeds to create dust that cab be inhaled and can be mildly dangerous 😆.
@trumanhw7 ай бұрын
Okay, great great episode!! -- TOURNAMENT RULES DEMAND: AR500 vs Tungsten Carbide (probably want some ballistic panels between your camera, too).
@StewieGriffin5058 ай бұрын
I thought that DU essentially burned its way through armor.
@funmaster32788 ай бұрын
Even though that could be done things like tank rounds really on kinetic energy alone even HEAT shells rely on the kinetic Energy after exploding
@Ozihilator4 ай бұрын
**Press squishes uranium atoms together** WW2 veterans: “Well…I think we can all see where this is going” 🤯
@Steve-nu9op8 ай бұрын
how many tons of force (or whatever) can your press create? awesome vids btw!!!!
@efimkrivov8 ай бұрын
500tones
@ubikii59267 ай бұрын
DU is not used because it is dense or for whatever other mechanical reason. It is use because it creates an euthectic, on the contact point with steel at high speed, that lower the smelting point of the mix of Uranium and steel. Therefore, making the perforation of steel much easy and creating a deadly blast of liquid metal (inside a tank for instance).
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
thank you doctor expert
@mattt1986543218 ай бұрын
So the real question is...WHERE DID YOU GET DU FROM?
@arthursmor96298 ай бұрын
Home depot )))
@chemistryofquestionablequa62528 ай бұрын
Probably eBay. You can buy a lot of shady stuff from them, but it’s not illegal to own.
@pycho21605 ай бұрын
Modern steel armor AR500- "we didn't even scratch them"
@Unknown-0-0-1-8 ай бұрын
Tungsten plate with tungsten round next
@PitfallHarry723 ай бұрын
I've got that exact same caliper. I can't believe how well it works for as cheap as it is. From watching this, you wouldn't think depleted uranium would be very good for an armor piercing round, but it certainly is, that's for sure.
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
it's a good caliper surprisingly for the price
@chikkenbonz8 ай бұрын
What I find most interesting here... How no one else is not mentioning that you actually have a DU penetrator in the first place!! I'm an element collector and I've been trying to track down ANY DU projectile (let alone a 30mm tank buster) for close to 20 years with no luck. Most I've come up with is 1 gram of natural U powder. (I've seen some small DU samples for sale in plate form, but they were extremely overpriced. Nothing even close to this.) Did you get the complete round...sabot and casing as well? You have there the Holy Grail/Unicorn of element collecting! Do you know how much money those are worth?? Brother, we need to talk!! 😏
@Eyeofdajjal8 ай бұрын
In Germany, a well known journalist once brought one single used projectile into the country through a befriended diplomat’s luggage. He then tried to have it analysed at several university labs, was sent away at the first one due to the extreme danger emanating from this one single projectile. At the second lab, they told him to come again the next day, when he was welcomed by the police and taken into custody for public endangerment. So I’m not so sure about what’s going on here - especially filing off some material without any apparent protection seems a bit strange to me
@chikkenbonz8 ай бұрын
@@Eyeofdajjal Exactly. Something fishy going on indeed. The DU penetrators I've seen are longer than this...they run almost the whole length of the projectile. This must be a cut-off piece (if in fact it is real). I've not a clue how international transportation/ shipping/handling works across borders, especially in Europe, but yeah that sounds about like what would happen. Prolly why there's so few in existence to civilians. Uranium isn't illegal to own - one can own up to 15 lbs. of it without consequences from the Dept. of Energy (so long as it's owned for a purpose i.e. collecting, experimenting, etc.) Otherwise ine would need a license from the DOE. And DU isn't very dangerous in it's solid form; the radioactivity is almost all of the Alpha variety which cannot penetrate the skin. It emits Beta and Gamma also, but very little. In small quantities, DU is fairly safe...as long as it's in SOLID FORM. I agree this is very disconcerting watching this fella casually filing DU making dust that is VERY dangerous if ingested. This is a strange video. Some insight would be very appreciated OP. Very concerned for your health!
@datadavis8 ай бұрын
@@chikkenbonz Its obviously fake as shit.
@IvanIvanov-wh8td7 ай бұрын
@@Eyeofdajjalit no germany! It is RUSSIA !!!!
@Eyeofdajjal7 ай бұрын
@@IvanIvanov-wh8td I know, but why would ANYONE want to handle this shit 😂 Lest destroy it with a hydraulic press. Well, I guess having a KZbin channel justifies anything. Let’s hope the creator doesn’t crush himself for views 😅
@rdw61568 ай бұрын
The giant spike vs old tank armor and the new.....first block of old was aluminum......second block was steel and an aluminum spike.....cmon man
@patrickzerkel5328 ай бұрын
Oh God, don't file depleted uranium.
@OldNavyAirdale8 ай бұрын
Why not?
@juslitor8 ай бұрын
DU screws over your kidneys something fierce.
@OldNavyAirdale8 ай бұрын
Ahhhh Gotcha@@juslitor
@patrickzerkel5328 ай бұрын
@@OldNavyAirdale It's an alpha emitter and highly toxic. If fine particles get in the air or the environment, they can be inhaled or ingested. Very nasty stuff to machine. Very nasty munitions.
@OldNavyAirdale8 ай бұрын
@@patrickzerkel532 I figured that if it was depleted uranium that it would no longer be emitting radiation.
@GregorShapiro7 ай бұрын
At 2:00 "Steel plate 12 mm". There are hundreds of steel qualities. Which one is this? Yield strength? Hardness?
@КонюхФедоров-ы9ч8 ай бұрын
Это не была сталь от Т34 Вы лжецы
@vlaskarountzos58037 ай бұрын
Where does someone get depleted uranium... asking for a friend
@ogMETALhd8 ай бұрын
Was hoping to see pressure gauge comparison between t34 steel and the modern steel. Cool nonetheless.
@mrdreloaded40494 ай бұрын
I just love it when I receive some random bullet-shaped uranium in a very interesting package!
@mash80508 ай бұрын
Now show us Tungsten Carbide vs AR 500 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@sleepygryph7 ай бұрын
A significant reason the US went with DU in a lot of it's armor and anti armor munitions is that the US is pretty poor mineral wise when it comes to rare earths but as access to almost a third of the worlds supply of uranium with almost a quarter of it being in the US. self sharpening and pyrophoric are only secondary benefits, if the US had enough tungsten they'd make their penetrators out of it.
@alquinn85767 ай бұрын
rare earth elements are not that rare, tungsten is not a rare earth element, and if the US ever ran out of tungsten we would just invade canada (lol)
@НиколайАлешин-щ9ш8 ай бұрын
Эксперимент некорректен! Ни с ураном, ни с броней. Есть такое понятие как "время релаксации и время воздействия", так вот, в этом эксперименте время релаксации меньше времени воздействия и происходят пластичные деформации. При выстреле будет наоборот. И не факт что "слабая" броня Т-34 покажет себя хуже "твердой современной". Современная может расколоться. Тоже и с ураном и карбидом.
@JimEckhardt7 ай бұрын
Uranium is used for armour piercing due to its ablation pattern which shears layers off in a particular manner that keeps the round sharpened. It also reacts in such a manner that it "ignites" and thus also weakens or destroys the materials it comes into contact with.
@doctorbuga43022 ай бұрын
congratulations, you can use google.
@johnslugger8 ай бұрын
*DU used in Tank Darts is alloyed with 2% carbon and heat treated. Not the same stuff.*
@WyattChilson8 ай бұрын
The reason DU failed in this video is because its not good for pressure but when you throw it at 1500m/s it becomes way more dense and stronger while Tungsten at 1500m's become brittle when it hits a target which is why we stopped using it plus DU self sharpens and ignites when it comes into contact with another metal at high speed and when it goes through tank armor it ignites the inside of the tank and releases toxic Smoke the fire will either outright kill the crew and ignite the ammo inside the tank even if the round doesn't touch the ammo and the smoke will scorch the lungs of humans and it gives off the same type of atmosphere as a White phosphorus bomb and if you know anything about those bombs even if you don't get hit by the phosphorus the smoke it makes can burn your lungs and burn your skin and the heat in the area where it went off at the heat is enough to burn the area and clothing igniting you into fire if you somehow get out of the area you will still die unless you get to a hospital quickly because your lungs will start filling with liquids drowning you slowly and how they combat that is they drain the fluids from your lungs ever few hours until they heal and if they don't heal you will either get a lung transplant or you will die and if you don't die your life expectancy will be 5 to 10 years and the rest of your life will be extremely bad this is why we use DU for a sabot round instead of tungsten because its better at going through heavy armor and the after shock of when it goes into the tank and for the life of me I don't know why the US military doesn't give the A-10 DU sabot round they give it DU AP rounds but if they gave it DU APFSDS rounds they would have nearly double the pen and a more pyrophoric property to it
@bobertjones23007 ай бұрын
Run On Sentence of the Day Award. Please use your scholarship at the University of Punctuation Junction.
@WyattChilson7 ай бұрын
If you cant follow with your eyes you have brain issues @@bobertjones2300
@1888bry4 ай бұрын
Gulf war illness from DU
@BackyardBeeKeepingNuevo7 ай бұрын
Don’t try this at home. Like I have an awesome press and uranium at home.😂
@tomparrish36178 ай бұрын
That is not a depleted uranium penetrator I’ve seen thousands of them actually 16 million of them. Not one !!!!!’
@SouthernShodan7 ай бұрын
Moral of the story: Our tanks should be firing drill bits
@Vile_Entity_35458 ай бұрын
The A-10 has to be the sexiest military aircraft ever made. From the look and the sound of the brrrrrrrp from the cannon, it has everything in my eyes. I suppose people like fast sleek planes and some vintage, but the A-10 is something I would love to see in real life.
@touffel7268 ай бұрын
Why you wanna see something like that? Isn‘t love our purpose
@rharris13368 ай бұрын
Got to see a maneuvering demonstration at Edwards AFB back in 1990. That footage at 0:50 seconds in is a great angle. I guess you wouldn’t want to see that angle if you were on the opposing team 😂 Amazingly agile. Not fast, but when you carry that kind of fire power, I guess you don’t need speed.
@drahosek18 ай бұрын
It's not aircraft. It's a gun with wings.
@elessartelcontar94152 ай бұрын
I'm so thankful for the warning not to try at home! I almost put my uranium in my hydraulic press!! That was a close one!
@CLCIII8 ай бұрын
Tungston carbide would completely destroy the rifling and barrel that it was shot out of so it would never be used for armor penetrating rounds.
@AmonAmarthFan6098 ай бұрын
Depends on what it’s being fired from
@CLCIII8 ай бұрын
@@AmonAmarthFan609 It would ONLY work as a sabot round. If it were a rifled barrel of any material the tungston carbide round would not deform to engage the rifling and would likely jam the bore destroying the barrel in the process. I'de be interested in your working theory. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇
@peterweller85838 ай бұрын
sabot
@CLCIII8 ай бұрын
@@peterweller8583Exactly, as I stated above.
@herrhaber90768 ай бұрын
This is why it's called a penetrator ! It's inside the round. Sometimes even in two separate pieces. The projectiles themselves are usually a nickel-steel alloy are are employed in SABOT rounds.
@johnnyllooddte34157 ай бұрын
now where did you get depleted uranium.. and how did you get it delivered.. most intl federal postal offices and private delivery services have geiger counters to catch such things
@olegkushelovsky19077 ай бұрын
Depleted uranium does not emit gamma particles. In fact, it is not radioactive. It emits alpha particles, and this radiation is easily isolated by a piece of paper or a layer of paint. Depleted uranium is used as radiation insulation.
@minyoi1697 ай бұрын
Thats not how depleted uranium works for armour piercing. It is shot at extreme high speed to cause a thermo run away. The bullet become extremely hot, over 4000C.
@stephaniecoomey23563 ай бұрын
this is one of the more bad ass videos ive ever seen
@t-dog85282 ай бұрын
A temperature gauge would've been a great addition to check friction temperature
@_SsnapsS_8 ай бұрын
Nice video! Is it correct to say you should get a press cone made from AR500 steel?
@randyweyant81365 ай бұрын
I worked for a local defence contractor that made DU rounds I was a assembler in the DU room dust masks & coveralls & a badge to chk levels & eventually I think it made me sick so I went back to inspection of 20mm rounds,great job great pay but the DU stuff ain't no joke !
@corkystorky3 ай бұрын
it's amazing they drilled and got that metal from Uranus!
@CEUprimate4 ай бұрын
'Do not repeat at home' As if I have a hydraulic press and Uranium at home.
@JoshBeck-z5m3 ай бұрын
For anyone confused, the uranium is meant to impact at several Mach, not be slowly compressed, At the intended speeds, it punch straight through
@TheMostAverageYoutuber12 күн бұрын
This is what the boys do at the sleepover
@ultrared277 ай бұрын
It was packaged so nicely so it didn’t break the ground in it got dropped. Lol.