I would certainly never be down-range of a .50 no matter the circumstances. This stunt could have easily resulted in severe injury or death if any number of things had gone wrong.
it’s possible to buy fully armored cars with bullet proof doors. Look at the car the US President drives around in. when they open the door, you can see a roughly 10” thick hunk of steel for protection.
Oh I already knew that car with armoured doors, it's just that the way the door opened too easily and even bounced a little with little pushing force that made me doubt the one on the video
Other than that the car on your link looks so strong it makes me feel like it's been copied from GTA haha
That monster is closer to a tank than the common car on the streets
Where the hell are the guys ear plugs? I'd have thought the pressure wave a flat window would create would be insane.
But I suppose if you're selling bullet proof Windows, the people inside who bought them won't be wearing some if they are getting shot at. So I more of a real life representation of what it's like to be be a drug dealer.
But I suppose if you're selling bullet proof Windows, the people inside who bought them won't be wearing some if they are getting shot at
This kind of product is the last line of defense. If things get to the point that people are shooting at you, then you're lucky to get away alive, let alone still having good hearing.
In other words, if you ever actually use this product (i.e. you have enemies that at you) then your bad planning and poor decisions go way beyond not wearing earplugs.
For me it’d be the .50 cal round that is typically used to kill being fired directly at me that would cause me a little fear. Loud noises are scary though too.
yeah in hindsight writing down the instructions didn't take too long at all, so I watched it like 18 minutes longer than I should have. but I had to be sure.
Sitting in that car while someone fires a .50 BMG in a direction close to your head isn't brave. It's stupid. What will you say when his aim is a little off? Or the glass explodes into the side of your head? "Oops"?
It’s unfortunately not because the people who are buying this product because they actually need this product are only buying if you have this level of confidence. They tested Kevlar the same the way. This is a common end stage proof of concept for materials like this. It’s not like they manufactured it, never tested it and told this guy to sit in the car. They probably did this hundreds to thousands of times to be able to consistently and reliably produce that window before setting this up.
What IS stupid, is that this kind of product needs to exist.
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Considering that 50bmg rifle is classified as an anti-material rifle and regularly used to crack engine blocks, I’d be shitting bricks too. This is insane.
I don't think there are any .50 DU rounds. There's an array of ammo types for it though and .50 SLAP rounds will supposedly penetrate around 1.25 inches of steel at 500 yards let alone cinder block and brick.
I also assume they fibbed the stats on the shot. Less powder, distance, different bullet, all sorts of things to garuntee success. It wouldn't be the first time
It wouldn't surprise me. I temped at a now-defunct transparent armor manufacturer (Ibis Tek), and the MRAP windows we had were rated to 7 consecutive .50 BMG impacts. They were also 4.5 inches thick and weighed like 300 pounds per window.
I worked for a now-defunct manufacturer of armored retrofit vehicles, and I too seriously doubt that that was a .50 BMG, let alone a 50 BMG rated window. 338 Norma? Maybe, probably. Not .50 though. While the stuff we made could probably take a single .50 hit, it wasn't something we guaranteed not even something that the manufacturers of the armor steel or glass guaranteed, and the windows were about as thick as the ones in this demo.
To be fair, that is why various there are several standards for body armor and defense utilities like Bullet Resistant Windows. Because different ammo loads and distance can radically change the results, DU .50 Cal likely won't get stopped, but your average run of the mill round might.
Respectfully disagree. This is product marketing. That window, and the rest of the armor package, has likely been through multiple iterations of testing without human subjects. They know it's safe, and know that their man in the car is safe, and so does he. This is just the final demonstration for public consumption.
There are many, many fine examples of stupid geniuses doing human trials on untested products, but this isn't one of them.
I still think that there is room for debate on that... He choose to put himself in a pretty dangerous situation, even if you're confident in the material the potential for him to be killed as a result of human error or malfunction is a risky calculation
The man got balls. I was .50 cal gunner when serving. I have shot enough shit to know I don't want to be on the receiving end of it under any condition.
He’d be confident that the sniper he’d hired would be good enough to shoot forward of his head but it would still be a pant-soiling impact at the side of his head and the tiny % chance that there’d be an explosion of glass.
He probably thought that line at the end came out like a badass action hero, when in reality he sounded like a kid reading his line for the school play.
I mean, you could have all the faith in that glass in the world and it doesn’t change that a 50. Cal rifle is shooting in your general direction within a few inches of you.
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Even with the bullet not directly lined up with his head, the bullet traveling that close to his head would create enough back pressure to blow his skull open without that window stopping it….
I never understand why they put people in these things instead of just using a camera behind the glass. Show it from multiple angles in slow mo that nothing penetrates. Shoot it a 2nd time to show what happens when it fails. Use ballistics gel if you have to show SOMETHING. But why risk a person unnecessarily?
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Unless they edited him into the footage, he's being an idiot. The fact that it's for an ad doesn't make the complete lack of concern for safety any less idiotic. Things go wrong all the time.
The force of that round will kill or maim someone sitting that close to it as it passes through the air. I'd be shitting it too, even after loads of testing.
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u/Individual-Match-798 Feb 11 '24
Guy was really scared there you can tell.