Only Human's “Projectile” Weapons Could Penetrate Alien Armor | Best HFY Movies

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The Oranks, a ruthless alien race, have developed impenetrable armor and are conquering the galaxy. Their only limitation is the speed of their ships. Humanity, renowned for its resilience and adaptability, is called upon as a last resort. Captain Nelson and his crew, armed with seemingly outdated projectile weaponry, must unravel the mystery behind the Oranks' weakness and save the galaxy from their relentless advance.
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[@StarboundHFY]

In the thumbnail he simply THREW the round with his bare hands :D

[@thechillhacker]

lol good save bro. Thank you for at least acknowledging casings don't fly with the round

[@user-cm4ml7ju7d]

Those aliens are very fragile...an ammo round trowed by anyone could kill them?

[@andyking957]

This flying cardridge-like thing is quite strange, maybe some kind of explosive bullet? Or kinetic projectile made in this shape for fun? At least for my gun, the casing stays in the gun ;-)

[@JoserYoow]

Ah yes thee double casting bullet I've heard stories about this legendary bullet I believe a rail gun fires it, mid flight the 1st casting goes off then upon impact the second casting goes off ... for maximum penetration... yes very rare indeed 😅😂

[@KingSteven-]

YEAHHH LETS GOOO (this is also just funnier to think about)

[@dans2ndxbox360]

You do realize bullets that get fired don't have a case on them... Right? You should probably fire your AI.

[@allopez8563]

Just what I thought.

[@jezfrench9435]

Reminds me of the Naked Gun 2 1/2 poster.

[@mundane2024]

xD

[@TrepidDestiny]

You see, Human engineers realized that if you fire the bullet with casing and all, you get 100% more bullet per bullet. That's just called progress, baby! ;)

[@squidlipssupreme168]

New technology, instead of casingless, it is casing full. Don't question, just trust the science.

[@danperry3116]

Yeah I agree with the first comment. When you shoot a firearm the bullet comes out not the whole cartridge.

[@markscheutzow3446]

Maybe it's being thrown overhand?🤣

[@giantfood1]

That's only true with some weapons. Most weapons release both the bullet and the cartridge. The bullet comes out the barrel and the cartridge comes out the ejection port. The powder leaves the weapon in the form of gas and fire. Essentially the entire cartridge is released from the firearm. the only thing left in the firearm is carbon residue.

[@maral2014]

It's "AI".....

[@richardlucas7184]

Yes, I came by to laugh at the preview image of the flying cartridge.

[@SlowSTEN]

"Plus we fire the whole bullet. thats 65% more bullet per bullet, this is the same technology weve been using on robots for decades"~Cave Johnson

[@cetadel6597]

YES.

[@tarrantwolf]

Interesting thumbnail. So someone just threw an entire round at an alien?

[@bananaman7545]

Aperture science funded guns

[@jaysherman2615]

It was an emergency. The guy was reloading a magazine and out of desperation threw ammunition at the alien.

[@prpplague]

please have someone who actually knows something about firearms draw a better thumbnail for this story!

[@markmeador]

I guess the human was so strong he didn’t need a gun, he just threw the bullet.

[@OneCanisLupus]

​@@markmeador😂😅😂😅😂

[@jeeperjay9875]

I am glad AI isn't good at bullets yet. That will give us an advantage in the 'future'.

[@ivinrandall8224]

Its very common (cover of Naked Gun 33 1/2), I think most people dont understand how guns and bullets work and wouldnt recognize the projectile with out its casing.

[@whyjnot420]

Is that where all these comments came from? I was wondering. I can understand AI art that shows the whole thing being shot out of a gun. Since that stuff would only be drawing (never be sorry for your puns) on what people have already made and a lot of people have made that mistake. What is incondonable is when that kind of thing is overlooked by an actual human doing any level of QA or simply not doing any.

[@christinepearson5788]

The artist needs to learn only the bullet, not the entire cartridge comes out of the barrel

[@maral2014]

It's "AI".....

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

"At Aperture we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet, per bullet." -Cave Johnson

[@timgiugni8707]

Future bullets; all the parts. Or the humans just threw them.

[@SaraHeartlin]

@@timgiugni8707 just a SABOT i tell you

[@georgepoitras3502]

🤣🤣😂😂

[@DaVie-2]

Now bullets come with 60% more bullet than the last model that has 60% less bullet! We're gonna fire the whole goddamn cartridge for extra firepower!

[@tarrantwolf]

First you fire the round then you hit the round with a bullet to double fire the first round.

[@Nachtschicht1]

@DaVie-2 Funny enough, that's pretty much what the (real existing) Bonus rounds do... fly towards the target, then split open in the air to release two smaller projectiles which identify targets on the ground and then hit them...

[@DaVie-2]

@@Nachtschicht1 Actually? Can you tell me what the names are? I wanna check it out.

[@Nachtschicht1]

@@DaVie-2 google bonus rounds, very interesting stuff... There are others that work similar, but I don't remember the names right now. They are artillery rounds, maybe that helps. There are quite a few videos on youtube which are sort of impressive. P.S.: found it, the french are bonus 155, the german are smart 155. Looks like an invisible gun in the sky firing at the tanks...

[@cetadel6597]

That's 65% more bullet, per bullet!

[@sirbum1918]

So the humans happened to have old weapons in storage and that somehow shows how great we are? The aliens would be amazed when they visit one of our garbage tips then....

[@Jens-Viper-Nobel]

Whats more. One thing never changes in the stories, no matter who or how the enemy do it, other than all of them ALWAYS unable to adapt and reinvent and think out of the box. The human ingenuity, resilience and indomitable spirit as the only species in all of space, even in other galaxies. It's getting to be a bit onesided and somewhat arrogant and a source of humanity's own downfall if this keeps up with no enemies of equal enginuity and resilience. In the real world, we have always been fighting with the use of that ingenuity and through a system of action and reaction that goes both ways and forces both sides to work continuously to improve and invent new and adapt. But not in space if we are to follow all these stories. We don't need it there. Ehmm, does that sound like something plausible?

[@nohelp8534]

No, its gotta be one of them rocket powered brass rounds.

[@AlexSDU]

Fired from a recoilless rifle.😅

[@9999plato]

Its called a "gyro jet" round dude! Very rare and costly these days.

[@legion162]

The humans had plenty of cartridges, unfortunately the ATF declared all firearms illegal and confiscated every last one, and now humans have to throw them at the enemy

[@israelgonzalez1185]

😅😅

[@cmkeelDIM]

Ummm, cartridge vs bullet. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. And HOLY UNSYNCED AUDIO BATMAN!

[@MrJaxparadize]

Why does the image show an unfired bullet? Case and everything still intact.

[@kingmasterlord]

because its ai art

[@bigdsson]

It’s one of those new super secret cartridge canons.

[@doomslayer9850]

Cause it's firing more bullet per bullet

[@robinrichardson5821]

Must be one of those special bullets where you get 75% more bullet per bullet lmao

[@Aethelwolf]

The whole cartridge isn't fired.

[@billh4633]

Yeah, because someone threw a bullet towards the alien...

[@Medi0cr3-]

The narrating voice on this channel is so good compared to other channels!

[@StarboundHFY]

Wow, thanks!

[@rogersmith9563]

"Admiral Nelson" I see what you did there... 😉

[@nonoyorbusness]

Beaten by soldiers throwing cartridges at them!

[@shawn9705]

Humane will never have self-restraint or err on the side of caution when in the pursuit of making the next biggest and baddest weapon, we never ever have in the past nor the present so I seriously doubt that humans will in the future because that is just who we are. HFY!😁

[@gregmcmahon8284]

Fleet Admiral leading ground forces? Dereliction of duty.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Energy weapons are for fancy pants, give me a good old GUN that launches a piece of metal at high velicity.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

Combat laser beams have very little penetration because they carry very little momentum.

[@aarobbins99]

Humans must be in pretty bad shape if they're resorting to throwing live rounds at the aliens.

[@tradways]

Uh….. your thumbnail…. Are the humans THROWING the cartiges by hand due to a weapon malfunction??? Because the brass stays in the rear with the gear, while that fire n forget projectile (the actual bullet) goes screaming along “front towards enemy”

[@ReneMiller-si3py]

Once again we have a single super commander who leads the fleet, controls science and tech, then leads a hand picked group on a plucky/lucky assault on the enemy's command staff in a secret bunker, then becomes the voice of peace and understanding. Please learn about chains of command.

[@krystie730]

I would like see a team that edits and fixes the stories where the AI goes wrong. Including the narration. I can't help but wonder if AI is using his voice for that too...

[@harroldwheeler-jr5926]

After the home world battle at end, did we really need like ten iterations of the innovations that followed?

[@brianmeeks6494]

God I love how many people are commenting on the fact that the casing still on the bullet.

[@therakshasan8547]

The image of a Cartridge flying at an alien is ridiculous . Only the slug leaves the weapon . The casing is back at the weapon .

[@9999plato]

Will the gun's power be palpable. Yes? Fantastic. It wouldn't be your story without it.

[@MaxPSVR]

Plot twist. The bullet (and cartridge) was placed on the thumbnail intentionally to get people talking about it.

[@larrybarron6184]

Unless a human is throwing the bullet at the alien by hand it’s not going to look like that.

[@feralpapertiger]

Thumbnail bullet still has a shell on it. Jes' sayin'. Good stuff!

[@darktoranaga]

Why would ships in an era of energy weapons carry old tech like missiles or railguns? Just adding cost and mass with no benefits. Also, everyone talks about bullets being fired with casing remaining behind, but nobody talks about railguns not using casing at all, since they don't use explosive propellent. Nice feel good story, but too many holes in it.

[@larrythompson8630]

Keeping rail guns makes sense. At close range it would be devastating. One rail gun, thousands of projectiles. In same area, mass of 2 missiles.

[@darktoranaga]

@@larrythompson8630 It doesn't make any sense. If everyone, including humans, use energy weapons, those would work at short range just as well. Why not for the cost and mass of a railgun, just add another energy weapon. It would be like on a modern ship you keep a catapult. You know, just in case you need one.

[@larrythompson8630]

@@darktoranaga you realize we are speculating with no knowledge? Right? We don’t have energy weapons, shields, heck even working rail guns 20% of story. I think it makes sense. Shields, armor has been designed to stop current threat. Read about leather armor, long bow. Current body armor and laws against ammo that can defeat it. Tanks. Changes, reactive armor. You actually put bombs on your tank to disrupt penetrating weapons as I understand. Variety could be useful. Maybe shields could easily block massive energy weapons. Possibly use power to recharge engine's, weapons? Would energy shields stop projectiles at percent of light speed? Soldiers still carry bayonets. The talk was missiles, rail guns. Missiles I would think are far to slow in space. Maybe for ground targets? But rail guns at close range.

[@overthelimitp4275]

It looks great ! I'd like to have a TX in 9mm or 45 .

[@thechillhacker]

And yet again, we essentially create the UFP and Starfleet. This is not criticism. I love and also share the same hope and faith that humanity will one day become that backwater civilization that everybody else underestimated, that then came through, using humanity itself as the greatest weapon, to then secure and advance the galaxy, much of it being full of older and much wiser races, supposedly, that without that human j'en se'quat(sorry my french is abysmal) are unable to coalesce into a greater society.

[@stevenharper5055]

I like a story where the heros the humans win. Not win lose win lose win lose. Wright a story of winners not about a punching bag.

[@MichaelMeyer93]

Going to need to start putting some effort into your channel and imagery to make sure you don't get details such as "bullet and cartridge" flying through the air.

[@richardgrahame5408]

Did anyone notice, in the first screen shot, certain people were wearing Star Fleet com batches. In the second screen shot it looked like an Imperial Cruiser and in the third screen shot the humans looked kitted out as Marines from Halo.

[@boogrs55]

the bullet in the thumbnail seems like someone threw it however what if nuke

[@tootiredtostop1606]

65% more bullet per bullet. Combustible lemons launched.

[@robinrichardson5821]

Damm everyones butt hurt about tge thumbnail bullets like jeez

[@I3igI3adW0lf]

Humans said "parry this, you filthy casuals".

[@CorvusAlyse]

I swear, all of these stories are like an entire human race based off of the mythos (kinda) of Gen X. lol

[@littleblackcat2273]

Yeah, pity the later generations didn't live up to it! :P

[@deovolente1]

Missiles are not kinetic weapons. Would have made more sense to use rail guns.

[@Jinx1349]

The warheads of a missile provide its primary destructive power which might cause secondary destruction due to the kinetic energy of the weapon and unused fuel

[@brianrolfe1742]

Imagine a 16" AP projectile from an Iowa Class BB attached to a missile. Improved with the technology from the stories time frame.

[@andyking957]

you certainly can use missiles as kinetic weapons as done in some space-warfare stuff to destroy enemy satellites and missiles.

[@andyking957]

this is something like the "Battleship" movie where they destroy the enemy spaceship with good old 16" shell without electronics...

[@doomslayer9850]

For yall nerds arguing about the thumbnail, btos just firing more bullet per bullet

[@recceeboy1237]

You fire the projectile not the cartridge.

[@madlynx1818]

I like the concept

[@madman123456]

Woof woof!

[@thedarcbird]

"Admiral Nelson"??? Shouldn't that be Lord Admiral Nelson??? Why didn't you go into greater detail on the tactics used in the battle??? Like "cutting the line"?

[@normanhines5189]

Strike the Shepard and the sheep are scattered

[@patrickandrews8714]

Why didn't the human fleet tow asteroids from their asteroid belts into the Orank home world's gravity well?

[@Nachtschicht1]

Yes, that would end the war within... uhm... a few hundred million years when the asteroids finally arrive in the Orank-System...

[@littleblackcat2273]

@@Nachtschicht1 I think Patrick's point is that after having towed them there, the human fleet could then either bombard the alien planet with the asteroids, or launch one into their sun causing lots of kabooms. I don't believe he considered leaving the asteroids there in orbit of the alien sun to someday maybe hit the planet. :)

[@Nachtschicht1]

@@littleblackcat2273 What I actually understood was that he suggested to send the asteroids from our solar system, like the bugs did in Starship Troopers, which was often remarked as an logical mistake. I think I misunderstood that.

[@littleblackcat2273]

@@Nachtschicht1 All cool my friend, neither of us can know the mind of the original poster. Certainly, an asteroid being slammed into a planet or sun would be devastating. No need to drag them across half the galaxy! :)

[@karlrenaut5799]

What did they do - throw the bullet?

[@VariouslyCommon]

On God, what is that thumbnail.

[@brandonblake2078]

Seriously they lost and they had 0 point energy AKA energy from subspace

[@simonlang2001]

WTF is a shell case doing attached to the bullet ? Not a gun nut but sooo wrong

[@johnhillbilly8625]

to many words about people questioning orders could not stand it

[@damoclescentu4511]

Yeah the first comment has a point

[@maral2014]

It's "AI".....

[@damoclescentu4511]

@@maral2014 yeah no shit sherlock. Its all AI. You literally copy pasted this through every comment. Get the joke next time

[@edwaar4060]

Yup was gonna watch the video until I seen the bullet still had the case.Knew and then I realized this guy doesn't know shit

[@dekonfrost7]

We dont need the intro.

[@iancormie9916]

Lots of word salad.

[@zdenekzdenek3589]

Kind of boring, too many "big words" but not enough excitement. Stopped listening at 8:06.

[@petermartin4298]

Too much AI verbosity. And if you tell me it was written by a human they need to stop using chat as an editor.

[@user-xo7gs1nx4p]

Yeah fix the co er art. That shit just looks stupid

[@jamesloll4601]

Alien getting killed by a bullet with it's casing?!? I saw enough of the thumbnail that? I'm not even going to be BOTHERED to listen to THIS STORY. I literally clicked on just long enough to say this. Sad part? Might of been a good story but? You can't even get your thumbnail right? I'm NOT even going to be bothered to even listen to this story... .. .

[@billfix1150]

You need a editor you repeat the same ideas over and over and over again. Unless you're doing it just to make your video longer. In that case your killing your content and endangering your ability to get new Subscribers.

[@coreyb5790]

Yup. The channel is making a really good case for there being room for competition to prosper.

[@michaelreifenstein2114]

um, missiles are a kinetic weapon? you have rail guns but you use missiles? if the rail guns could penetrate a shield that missiles couldn't then the engines should have been targets with railguns as well. AI had been trained to use dramatic wording without actually understanding what it means. crap story

[@pyeitme508]

Please no AI art...

[@user-zp9lg6sq7s]

So! not only do they carry obsolete projectile weapons, but thousands of them. Cluttering up the ship just in case Yet another crap garbage story with enough plot holes to piss through