Plasma Cannons: The Super Powered Weapon of Tomorrow?

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[@fredred8371]

Video starts at 1:50

[@Dmorris556]

Got one for keeping the dome undercontrol, it quit after about 3 uses, got a replacement and got about 6 uses out of that one before it died too. It is an decent rechargable razer as far as cutting and closeness, but they just don't not hold up compared to the Whal clippers. I've got a wired Whal I got in the military that is well over 20 that still rocks and rolls, it is just big and loud.

[@MrMudtit]

"Naturally, after discovering plasma, humans began imagining ways to weaponize it". Classic

[@thecommenternobodycaresabout]

Although this is true, the opposite also happens. Most of the current technology inventions that are now available for civilian use were, initially, technology us in the military in their first stages before becoming available for civilians, not to mention all the technological advancements that happened because of the military. As far as I know, the internet, that now everyone uses, was an invention for military purposes. Wireless communications technologies were also grewing rapidly because of the military, medicine too. I am not trying to justify anything, I am just stating that there are two sides on one coin.

[@hzhang1228]

@@thecommenternobodycaresabout one of the reasons why although it was the paper, printing press, compass and gun powder that brought about the renaissance, China stagnated relative to Europe soon after. climate zones that favor life sees increased bio mass and bio diversity and then more complex life forms, eventually leading to powerful civilization around river valleys. we are spawns of chaos.... *que isengard unleashed* "the old world will burn in the fires of industry!!!" 😈

[@kilotun8316]

Welp, that's the way the human mind works, isn't it? Question 1: Can I kill stuff with this? Question 2: Can I have sex with this? I think in the case of plasma, the answer to number two must be a hard no.

[@arcturionblade1077]

@@kilotun8316 Number two just involves a lack of imagination. We'll get there eventually (with Japan more than likely leading the way).

[@blueberrywilbur315]

@@kilotun8316 We just haven’t found the right magnetic field 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The term "Plasma Cannon" was first used to refer to the weapon during the 3rd Edition release of the Warhammer 40,000 rules set. Prior to the 3rd Edition, the weapons now referred to as Plasma Cannons were called Heavy Plasma Guns.

[@MrTyp00n]

You did get plasma cannons as well, they're the very heavy variant that can only be mounted on vehicles or in emplacements (pg 87 of Rogue Trader.)

[@XLA-zg1nn]

didn't have to scroll far for the 40k mention I don't have to write 👍

[@jeremyfrancis9703]

Watch GW try to copyright the term or definition

[@MrTyp00n]

@@jeremyfrancis9703 They can't, it's too broadly a used name. They'd have to rename them Plasmari Kannonin or Stella Ballista or something.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

Plasma cannon were titan weapons. The smallest titan one the Plasma blast gun was mounted on a storm blade imperial super heavy tank. Above that was the plasma cannon, plasma destructor and finally the plasma annihilator which was mounted on the Imperator emperor class titan. The infantry ones were the plasma pistol, plasma gun then heavy plasma gun

[@SuperPiratesfan]

*Imperium of Man intensifies*

[@mathiassvensson7911]

Happy gasmask sounds!!

[@finleydavies96]

Happy trenching tools clanging

[@davidboatwright8688]

Always on supercharge

[@89crooker]

I rolled a 1 what happens next

[@dorsk84]

@@89crooker Boom! Rosco, Boom!

[@pmgn8444]

The first plasma weapon: 400,000 years ago, Thag and Grog throwing burning sticks at each other.

[@yyhhttcccyyhhttccc6694]

some say grog threw his stick at a cow and thats how we discovered beef and then he slapped thang with the beef

[@Gobeman]

Ah nothing like some 40K plasma guns on the thumbnail to attract the tabletop lore geeks here!

[@logansmall5148]

Nice Dark Angels plasma gun in the thumbnail...

[@jacksone5856]

The only thing to cause a click faster than Simon... A Plasma Cannon of the Dark Angels. THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

[@edwilson5727]

I see no Heresy here..

[@iron_side5674]

@@edwilson5727 Then you´re not looking hard enough, Brother!

[@edwilson5727]

@@iron_side5674 nothing happened on Caliban....

[@corzahazard444]

FOR THE LION!

[@Wayoutthere]

DEUS VULT

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:45 - Chapter 1 - The problem with plasma 4:10 - Chapter 2 - Marauder 5:30 - Chapter 3 - Non lethal lasers 7:40 - Chapter 4 - Russian wunderwaffen 9:10 - Chapter 5 - From fiction to fact PS: Maybe also an opportunity for this weapon to be treated on *The Science of Science Fiction*

[@beesod6412]

I have no idea how I didn't know about that sci-fi Simon channel, Thanks much!

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Thank you fren. Happy to skip the gross ad for Manscaped. Love Simon, but I find Manscaped ads distasteful.

[@MrThhg]

@@hacker4chn841 also it’s kind of a shit brand.

[@hacker4chn841]

@@MrThhg what makes it a shit brand? I just hate that they have such gross/weird commercials (i.e. the one where the dude's mom gives him a manscaped package for Christmas) and they're normalizing shaving your pubic hair (generally not the best thing for you).

[@MrThhg]

@@hacker4chn841 mine heats up after 2 mins of usage, after 5 mins it gets too hot to use. doesn't trim very well.

[@elliotsmith9812]

There was talk in the early SDI days of using a laser to ionize the air, creating a conduit through which a charged particle beam could fire. I have seen a table top rail gun used to throw the flame from a match at high speed. With an ionized conduit in the air, it might also be viable.

[@knotsochice]

My idea was to ionize an air gap with an infra-red laser and discharge a capacitor arc through it. We built the thing and took out the whole Sarara Forest, and whoever they were never bothered us again.

[@sanctivenator8091]

Warhammer 40k looking cannon in thumbnail. For a moment I thought Simon will talk about Warhammer 40k universe and lore. I am sure no one will read this comment, but it would be really interesting seeing Simon talk about Warhammer 40k universe. Including Warhammer 40k timeline and historical events.

[@guy_autordie]

He will have to close his other channels :')

[@comradecrawdaddy3343]

You had me at Plasma Cannon, the Emperor is pleased.

[@kre4ture218]

Bruh I‘ve been watching Megaprojects for 6 months now, and 1 week ago I really got into WH40K, weird coincidence.

[@ThinkyPain]

Turn back while you still have time! 40k will consume your everything!

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@@ThinkyPain stay right there the Inquisition wants to talk to you

[@Eleanor_Ch]

Coincidence? I think not!

[@masonsmith9619]

There is no turning back…

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Holy Terra! Simon speaks of the Imperium! Praise the God-Emperor!

[@adamrobinson3123]

There is another that is in the similar vein as the non-lethal lasers. An electrolaser, or Laser Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC) uses a laser to ionize the air, making it conductive, then dumping a ton of electricity through the plasma. Essentially creating a small,guided, lighting strike. Apparently there has been some success in the field

[@tommymclaughlin-artist]

"If you try to shoot gas out of a gun it spreads out and becomes useless." Darkwing Duck has entered the chat.

[@dorsk84]

He is the terror that flaps in the night. The is the stone you can't get out of your shoe. He is DARKWING DUCK!

[@arcturionblade1077]

Batman's Scarecrow would beg to differ!

[@Kaiyening]

Not of tomorrow. Of the forgotten days from the dark age of technology.

[@bial12345]

I guess technically the .220 Swift does travel "less than 2000 kilometers a second", a whole lot less.

[@BoxJoe136]

1,400 m/s

[@RiggsBF]

Please make a video about folding space like in Event Horizon, Dune, Warhammer 40K.

[@VikingZX]

In the UNSEC Space Trilogy, plasma weapons function by effectively firing ball lightning: Magnetically bound spheres of high-energy plasma that unwind upon striking a target, depositing their energy in a devastating explosion. The energy cells used to power these are really volatile, and should NOT be punctured.

[@johnssmith4005]

Please do a video on whatever happened to Metal Storm weapon system , that thing was crazy

[@paulreadsthebible6584]

They got some scary ones for that MS tech now.

[@DominikPinkas]

Kinzhal is just an air launched Iskander. And the thing they claimed to hit on the video was not an ammo depot. It was a warehouse type building but with no ammo explosion to go with it… It’s pure marketing weapon. No more, no less. (And it apparently works since we are talking about it)

[@drawitz5074]

This guy should do a 40k channel like he does this one

[@mugendono23]

Dont give him any ideas, he'll do it. 😆

[@Wild_Danimal]

@@mugendono23por favor

[@mho...]

nah, to tough to beat Luetin09 !

[@hoholzna4itpidarSLAVAROSSII]

He already has like 4 channels, see this bald guy often on recommendations

[@mho...]

@@hoholzna4itpidarSLAVAROSSII 4 channels?!, you innocent child 🤣

[@YourForeverBox]

FOR THE EMPEROR!

[@LordOfNihil]

maurauder is an even better acronym for battletech fans. to the point where im sure these guys who developed it the tabletop game. its not only a reference to a ppc mech, but is also effectively a ppc.

[@canis2020]

The Emperor protects.

[@Mbartel500]

Actually there are now 29 states of matter, 25 of which are man made and only exist in a laboratory. However there are 4 fundamental states of matter, like you mentioned.

[@tommymclaughlin-artist]

I too came here from PBS Space Time.

[@Mbartel500]

@Some Austrian Painter that's just nuts!!

[@leakingamps2050]

What about the states of matter in a neutron star? Neutron stars are not a lab :p

[@xxportalxx.]

Not true, supercritical fluids, neutronium, condensate, etc. all exist in nature as well. There's far more than 4 naturally occurring states of matter.

[@jacara1981]

Up to 6 states of matter, including Metallic (hydrogen under extreme pressure) and a Singularity is some times considered a state.

[@realkarfixer8208]

Bose-Einstein Condensate

[@elvfrem]

That Warhammer plasma gun on the thumbnail made me click this. Nothing else.

[@icyknightmare4592]

Plasma weapons in atmosphere is almost certainly a dead end research path. The exception is something that generates the plasma AT the target, instead of trying to project it to the target through air. The Geth shotgun in Mass Effect works like this; it fires electrically charged projectiles that shatter on impact and flash ionize the surrounding air into plasma to cause an explosion at the impact site, along with nasty electrical effects on target. It's probably the most realistic 'plasma' weapon in sci-fi. Another hybrid weapon not specifically mentioned in the video is the electrolaser, sometimes known as a plasma channel weapon. It uses a laser beam to create a conductive plasma between the weapon and the target, and then a massive electrical charge is launched down the beam. It's a lightning gun. The US Army was experimenting with the tech about a decade ago, but it didn't get much farther than zapping cars in a lab.

[@hackysmack]

4:50 Correction: Less than 2000 meters per second, (

[@MattExo-Dynamics]

So what your saying is, they wont be used by space marines first but will likely be mounted on titans with void shields?

[@jlward953]

Dude, no bullet goes 2,000 km per second. That's insane. They typically top out around 3,800 feet per second, or around 1,250 m/s. If there's a bullet going 2,000 km/s I need to know the details! That would be awesome!

[@ninja23yt]

He likely mean 2000 m/s

[@usonumabeach300]

Magnetic accelerator cannons! From rail guns to coil guns!

[@glassboi5401]

I wish I knew someone that could build em I would pay for that shi asap

[@JaredLS10]

A performance package for Simon's performance package.

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

Plasma cannons are great in Warhammer 40k

[@Shield-Metal]

Dark Angels might come a knocking looking for Fallen

[@padawanmage71]

Reminds of the 'Phased Plasma Generators' (PPGs) from Babylon 5...

[@rcyununycvniyb6ucv]

Video starts at 1:50

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Doing the Lord’s work.

[@invader_guy1171]

It's kinda funny Simon makes the ads that long, he's mentioned the sponsors don't actually ask him to make them like that, he's just oddly commited to reading all the selling points and going on tangents

[@stannyman73]

Then a add so about 5 min vid come on Simon!😅

[@magnetmannenbannanen]

i work around a plasma cutter bench, and those things are pretty badass when u cut 50mm + , i would love to see that as a close combat weapon.

[@emilycone4909]

Hey, Simon, know how you mentioned the progress on fusion reactors, they finally announced get one to work while producing more energy than it costs to run, though apparently only with enough power to ‘boil ten kettles of water’ but they did it.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

At a cost of 4 billion dollars no less.

[@nickgiotis6206]

@@southcoastinventors6583 quite the bargain for the best power generation in known physics honesty

[@reapersasmr5483]

Hey don't worry leave up to our president we won't have any power or resources to run anything , no coal so what about NG ? Oh no he making sure we don't use that , so we have ummm

[@esecallum]

useless.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

@@nickgiotis6206 Fission plants are deployable now provided they are allowed to reprocess spent fuel, not 30 years when they are able to commercialize this and only rich countries no less.

[@goldennightmare6325]

we can't have Plasma weapons without plasma grenades lol

[@dominushydra]

There's nothing more brutal than shooting a little piece of The Sun at somebody.

[@lolerskates876]

The Amazon affiliate link to a plasma cannon is a nice touch. Best white elephant!

[@christopherleubner6633]

You can actually build one. All that is needed is some ion seed source such as a metal salt vapor from a flame and salt water mist, an excitation source to superheat it and ionize the air itself like a microwave magnetron. A magnetic field coil that makes the plasma spin to create a vortex (several yoke coils plus a home made gradiant coil) to confine and cause charge separation and finally an acoustic pulse generator to lob the plasma. It doesnt do much damage but can scorch and makes a rather loud bang when it hits something. 🤓

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

Sounds like a science fair project in a Wakanda high school.

[@christopherleubner6633]

It actually was my 10th grade science fair project. Was entitled theory and operation of a neutral plasma impulse thruster.

[@sambojinbojin-sam6550]

Actually, you can get a somewhat solidified plasma fuel blob from roofing silicone off accidentally hitting it with a welding arc, or even sometimes grinding-sparks. So adding a little core of aluminium/ thermite/ iron oxide to it, isn't hard. And you'll find you can both ignite and fire anything down the barrel of a gun you want, with pretty well known schemes to, even if you have to "pre-set" what it is essentially a high-temperature incendiary round, that will burn as it flies down the barrel. You could possibly even add rifling to it. But short range plasma "launchers" are pretty piss easy, even with low-end tech. They're just not very useful militarily. They do "incendiary round" work, with extremely obvious "wow, that's not stealthy" stuff, even if they can hit temps that can melt a tiny bit of steel. Kinda useful to know, but not that useful as a "Plasma Rifle". ((F'ing terrifying if you get hit by one. But, seriously, so is 5.56mm/ 7.68mm/ whatever ammunition. It's just another way to die, no better or worse than anything else, and at least you can shield against thermals and plasmas. Kinetics are hard too)). I mean, try and tell me the tiny copper jet from a Rufous 12.5mm/.50cal anti-material round isn't a "plasma round", or any anti-tank rocket isn't an "explosive plasma round", and I'd have to disagree. Shaped charge? Plasma round. Anti tank rocket/missile? Plasma round. Two-stage shaped charge? Plasma round with anti-defense-mode characteristics. Plasma rounds are here man. We *are* in the future.

[@passtheparcel2024]

I described a plasma cannon, in the 1990s. It had the capability of blowing down buildings, also using a toroidal (doughnut) effect, bit like a sonic punch, but with much more force! There was very lill info on such tech then. It was simply the stuff of science fiction. But was actually science fact, even then...

[@valentyn.kostiuk]

Ther is no escape or safe place in this reality from 40k fans. Glory to Chaos Undevided

[@evanfish4505]

Heretic The Emperor Protects

[@senuauwu]

Covenant (Halo game) Happy Noises

[@FutureAIDev2015]

How did they generate the toroid of plasma in the Marauder system? My first naive guess is that they had two concentric electrodes, one in the shape of a rod and one in the shape of a hollow cylinder, that they just passed a gigantic electric current through.

[@jolan_tru]

"For comparison, the highest velocity bullets travel at less than two thousand kilometres per second." Well, you're not wrong, Simon.

[@ycplum7062]

Plasma cannons are sci-fiction. Now Plasma Torpedoes (basically missiles with a magnetically contained plasma warhead) have some potential. lol

[@libertyprime5965]

So we actually have a functional plasma canon...in 1993.

[@oldleatherhandsfriends4053]

And it sounds like it blows shit up to.

[@ivanjason1863]

And also the devastating blow of donut shots with ball lightning

[@pekkoh75]

Toroidal plasma guns or similar technology seem to be developed as an alternative fusion device. Shoot two of them at each other, and you hopefully get fusion in the middle.

[@Wolphen]

Lol 04:48 ... 2000 km per second? So basically we have a bullet traveling at almost 200 times escape velocity

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

the description of the effects of the device used in the MARAUDER experiment sounds a *lot* like the PPC (particle projection cannon) from Battletech - extreme mechanical and thermal shock along with an emp effect. The game doesn't include the EMP effect except as a very optional rule buried in an old, old sourcebook, but the way the weapon is described sounds like this MARAUDER experiment quite a bit. The 'Mechs and their various energy weapons are powered by fusion engines, so they have plenty of power on hand And by what Im assuming is sheer coincidence, the Marauder-class BattleMech carries between 2 and 5 of these weapons, depending on the variant and year!

[@Kyzrath]

Don't forget the TSEMP that the Blakists use. Tight-stream EMP built from a modified PPC.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

@@Kyzrath I try not to think about the WoBbies ifI can help it ;)

[@TooLazyToFail]

Honestly, I have no need for the Manscaped stuff, but your presentation of it was honest and interesting. I see the value for someone who wants that sort of thing! Good sponsor segment. Way better than "here's a VPN you probably don't need."

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

As a Warhammer 40K fan, I greatly approve of your choice of thumbnail image.

[@It-b-Blair]

Unless we actually develop defenses to inhibit physical munitions, kinetic projectiles are insanely powerful and relatively affordable/efficient

[@Fanny-Fanny]

4:47 - "for reference the fastest commercial rifle bullets travel at less than 2,000km/second". Yes, yes they do. It is also probably less than 2km/s. Oops.

[@EAcapuccino]

Seems Epic if were to happen! 👌 Very much like the SOLG out of Ace Combat 5 or Icarus out of the 2002 - Die Another Day - Bond film

[@eetukovanen6170]

Im gonna be so mad if someday in the future im stunned by PP gun wielding robotcop

[@zefellowbud5970]

Maybe If we ever figure out how ball lightnings work, and figure out if we could accelerate it without destabilizing it.

[@Kargoneth]

@4:50 "Less than two-thousand kilometers per second" was probably intended to be "Less than two-thousand meters per second"

[@justepourlacheruncom8393]

Anything could be weaponized. But I'm not sure plasma weapons even functional would be thing. The spreading of a military tech often need a widespread use and mastery in civilian field before. Gun powder composition co evolved with chemical industry and fertilizer. Same for lazer weapons. They start to be a thing because laser are a decades old tech , with a very broad range of applications. The only exception I could think of is atomics bombs who were the first off the lab large scale application for nuclear energy. To get plasma weapons we need to have a valid market for plasma tech and funding improvement. And honestly even if it was the case a big tech breakthrough would be required for using gigawatt in plasma when you could more reliably and cheaply use this energy to throw a chunk of metal with forcefield or centrifugal energy.

[@personhuman7778]

When do we get the phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?

[@ComradePhoenix]

9:50 I hope that video isn't already outdated.

[@robsquared2]

I think you meant 2000 meters per second for the bullet.

[@patinsley]

Watching this in slo mo is amazing

[@dmathmothtutinean8950]

I invented…the plasma cannon…😅…jus’ kidding 😅 0:46

[@Zurvan101]

Bose-Einstein condensate: Am I a joke to you? Quark-Gluon plasma: Don't forget me too.

[@TheLiamster]

Marauder is my new favourite acronym

[@crwydryny]

Problems with plasma weapons ... First the gas pressure law would mean it would work like a flamethrower. Second back scattering from the atmosphere would give the user a lethal dose of radiation

[@alien9279]

Just wanna throw a container of plasma that explodes and melts whatever it touches lol

[@cruucruu5584]

i want to try this one. induce the laser with some plasma particles, put the plasma ring around the laser segregating the electro and proton into different outlets, shoot the laser, run an electric current through the beam.

[@changer_of_ways_999]

I have a lot of 40k channels on my feed and didn't think twice seeing a plasma gun in the thumbnail... then I realized it was Simon.

[@shannonrhoads7099]

There was a joke in the old Star Fleet Battles game, where the Romulans declined to battle the Federation because the crew couldn't draw enough blood plasma to launch torpedoes...

[@cassiecaradoc2070]

As a long time Dark Angels player, Plasma Cannons are my love language.

[@dadisacek]

4:49 2200 km/s is probably a bit too much 😅

[@AvocadoDandy]

The biggest problems with Plasma weapons is rolling 1s

[@evanfish4505]

Supercharge it! Just don't roll a 1!

[@psylentrage]

We've been using plasma based weapons for millennia, fire😁 and we HAVE plasma cannons, flamethrowers😅

[@erikpeterffy7552]

4:46 2000 km/s?! What?! Are you insane? 😂😂

[@nealp9084]

Plasma is notably used today in EUV lithography. A CO2 laser is used to heat droplets of tin, which become plasma and emit EUV light. This is used in the mass production of advanced microchips. Chances are, you're reading this comment on a device whose manufacturing process involved plasma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography

[@vsGoliath96]

I mean, they could be? As long as you don't roll a 1 on your hit dice and take 1 or more mortal wounds with no saves and lose your specialist weapon squad member because of it.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Haha. Phased plasma pulse rifle goes Brrrrr.

[@gordol66]

Military side arm in "Babylon 5" is a PPG, in pistol or rifle form. PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.

[@axatassabrae]

They need to try a modern take on Greek fire using plasma

[@thumpyloudfoot864]

I think the plasma rifles frok the Terminator franchise is probably the most feasible, part conventional firearm part plasma rifle.. Its basically superheating the projectile on its way out barrel, which makes sense

[@rmartinson19]

Not super relevant to the video, but there's also a fifth state of matter: Bose-Einstein Condensate, colloquially known as "ghost matter". Basically, get matter very, very cold (as in, just barely above absolute zero), and you start to see this weird new state of matter which behaves a bit like a liquid, and a bit like a gas, but seems to have the ability to "phase through" some solids as if they aren't there (hence the "ghost matter" moniker).

[@guy_autordie]

I like Simon because he is not close-minded on most subjects. When the greeks came with the idea of the smallest particule which is uncutable, and when the 1700's scientists use that term for what's known as atom, nobody could think of sub-atomic particules. And yet, here we are.

[@scottf2450]

Megaprojects really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Do Hudson Yards next. They built a bunch of sky scrapers on top of a train yard.

[@DanielGolding1337]

Bullets aren't well under 1% of 2000km/s 4:50 I think you meant to say 2000m/s

[@sookendestroy1]

I never knew they had this sorta tech, I'd assumed plasma weapons were sci fi still. I'd assumed the closest you could get was a form of bullet wherein it's a strong electromagnet containing plasma in the round

[@MayBeSomething]

Let me get this straight. The US Department of Offence is giving the Marines plasma cannons? Even if it is just a non-lethal stunner, that scares me more than if it was a lethal plasma weapon given to the Navy, Air Force, or Army.

[@Hillbilly001]

The Lizard Overlords already have them. Allegedly. Cheers from Tennessee

[@jessicalacasse6205]

most not be good cuz they still banning guns ....

[@jonbovie516]

I really thought Simon was doing a 40k vid

[@mattt525]

The Holy Emperor approves of buring heritics & zenos with the mighty plasma weapons

[@kiiandrii]

LIGHT OF THE EMPEROR

[@eggshellgoesgaming]

Let me get this straight... there is a Russian missile that has a freakin plasma deflector sheild that absorbs radar? This takes my mind straight back to the Philadelphia experiment. If a plasma field can absorb radar then it is a small step from being properly attenuated to absorb other radiation frequencies such as light. Perhaps time and space.

[@SM-nz9ff]

No you clearly don't understand what's being said lol. Anything going at that speed creates this plasma around the front of the missile due to heating up particles in the atmosphere. Every missile like this creates this plasma effect wtf you think is going on when space craft re enter our atmosphere from space missions lol like wtf this been a thing. And when meteors/asteroids enter the Earths atmosphere....same thing....this is about as long long long ago history as you can get with such a thing....ffs

[@Stuntsnik11]

Fun Fact- Simon has hundreds of informational youtube videos on a variety of subjects... no two are on the same channel.

[@andrewstripay5987]

bonus fact-simon's daemonic name is richard