Hm, that why when I dream of real power armor, I always think that shock absorption would be the most important design objective for the exoskeleton. The armor installable on an exoskeleton might not help against AP projectiles anyway, since it would be to heavy. However, the impact of shrapnel/explosions as well as being bounced around by it should be mitigate-able.
yea maybe that plate as an exosuit armor with heavy indoskeleton for the wearers protection (Gundam), otherwise that elephant gun just melted guts with a body armor suit.
Shoot Paul's "meat" target with the steel armor in the front. Just want to see the kind of damage the elephant round can do even without penetrating the armor.
I asked that same question when I read some books about the Holocaust and 9/11 once. It seems like life is all about suffering. The same can be said about history. You want to get away from it, but deep down, you know you can't. We can't get away from it. There isn't a single thing we can do about it. The best we can do is to learn from the suffering, recover from it, overcome it, and build our future upon it. That's what's best for us. Suffering is what we need to have a future. Without suffering, we would have nothing to learn from or overcome. And without any of that stuff, we will not have a future. Thank God we have people who are trying to save our world. Because without those people, our world would be futile.
I’d kinda like to see a “Forged in Fire” style pig test to see how survivable a hit from one of these rounds would be even with such thick plate armor. I figure we’re looking at pulverized ribs.
I reckon severe internal bleeding, pulverised bones, organ failure, ruptured spleen, broken spine and most probably death from the sheer force of that round. I would love to see one of that dummies tested, We demand it!!
Arnold is in his prime, hes got old man strength now, I've literally watched my 67 year old grandfather carry a full cedar tree on his friggin shoulder, if that ain't old man strength backed with old marine drive i dont know what is.
I don't think you could classify it as a heart anymore with the number of rib fragments in it. At least you'd be well tenderized for any cannibals that find you.
The Heart is technically a Pressurized chamber....The amount of Kinetic energy released would cause the heart to explode and lets not discuss what the other internal organs would look like...Death would be close to instantaneous.
I was reading an old blog a while back, and someone mentioned that shooting bags of charcoal is fun because it makes big puffs when hit. I’m wondering what it would look like if you lined up a bunch of charcoal bags and blasted them with the elephant gun. Also, a big bag of charcoal could be a fun Full Auto Friday target. Just some thoughts.
The way those cinder blocks exploded from the impact indicates that, whilst the bullet was stopped, it would still be enough to break ribs and cause internal damage to whomever was on the receiving end. Would love to see this repeated with a ballistics dummy wearing the armour.
@@MasterKeyMagic the round wouldn't have enough energy left do 'pulverize' your internal organs. Breaking that cinder block isn't representative for watery elastic organs. Also the energy of the round will be spread over the large steal plate's surface which weighs a lot and a large amount of tissues. Breaking a rib, hell yes, maybe a spleen or liver rupture? Probably. But pulverize you? No.
@@anomalyp8584 that is very, very untrue. Yes the force would spread through the entire plate, but the plate's weight would have the opposite effect that you're saying. Like scott says, " this is a round that is designed to not expand or give," meaning all of the force of the round goes directly into the plate. The plate will then be sent into your chest with all of that force, with all the weight of the plate on top of that. Adding the massive bulge where the round hits, it will definitely do more than "break a rib."
@@samporter3822 I doubt it, probably rupture many internal organs, broken ribs cutting through lungs and heart, nope you be dead. Like being hit by a train.
@@HenrikSherwood have fired a 477 nitro. What a kick back you just don't expect that kinda recoil.. but its a shot gun firing solid shot with a lot of fire behind the rounds...
I cannot believe that armor held up to one shot, much less 3 shots. That's incredible. Those rounds are made to penetrate and it stopped them. I'm dumbfounded.
Steel armor is really good at stopping stuff as long as it's not made of material harder than the steel itself or going too fast. On the other end of the spectrum you have ceramic armor that will stop hardened penetrators and very high velocity rounds, but heavy magnum rifle copper or brass solids will punch through.
"what would you like me to shoot next with this elephant rifle?" Me: don't say elephant. Don't say elephant. Don't say elephant. Don't say elephant.... An eggplant
50 bmg has nearly double the muzzle energy a .458 lott does, to match the 50 on a joule to joule basis he would need to buy a 10-15,000$ .600 overkill rifle from American Hunting Rifles.
Absolutely. Just look at the cinderblocks: despite the fact that the bullet can't go through the armor plate, your internal organs would be absolutely mangled.
Well its not rated for the elephant gun... if you got hit with just the ak round youd probably be okay but theres just too much power in those bigger guns.
Would be awesome to get one of those ballistic dummies that have all the organs and bones inside them, and put the armor on it. Just see what happens to the organs and such
Yeah - doesn't penetrate, but hits your chest and lungs so hard that your head pops off like a stream out of a stepped-on tube of toothpaste. Still, that metal armor is surprisingly hard - but the lateral spatter would probably cut off your chin without the rubberized containment layer. Really interesting to see the relative powers of the immovable object and the irresistible force - I would not have thought the plate would survive. I would imagine, however, that a .50 BMG would make short work of it, although if you've got somebody shooting at you with a .50 BMG, you've got bigger problems than whether or not your body armor would live through a direct hit.
If you're getting fired on with 50 bmg, you won't worry about penetration, because you're already penetrated, and satan is discussing your death with you
"This is not rated for an elephant gun." True that, Scott, you have to be armored up like Ned Kelly (plus some plating for the legs for the added weight + stability) to remain standing taking something like that to the chest and survive.
Me too, you'd need some very substantial padding underneath in order to diffuse the kinetic energy and survive the hit but the massive bruise and cracked ribs are better than having that gun turn you into a pile of red goo.
They aren’t that rare. I’ve had 5 different ones, in various configurations. 375H&H, 416 Rigby, 458 WM, They work for moose hunting, too. Haven’t shot an elephant yet, much to my chagrin.
Rifle plates don't transfer much energy. If it doesn't penetrate you will be completely fine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o5f1Fo4r4_I.html
@@ahuman2695 That doesn't change physics. Even with 2-2.5x the energy it doesn't matter. In that video he takes a .308 point blank, standing on 1 leg, and doesn't even flinch. You think all of a suddenly changes going from roughly 2800 ft lbs to 5800 ft lbs? That someone goes from not even moving to crushed ribs? But to the point of physics. The bullet cannot impart more energy onto the target than it does onto the shooter (equal and opposite reaction). The recoil is absorbed in the weight of the gun, spread over the surface area of the buttstock and into your shoulder/body. The bullet does damage because normally it's concentrated on such a small area. When it hits a rifle plate and stops the impact is spread over the entire surface area of the plate. That surface area is much much larger than the buttstock. If it doesn't break your shoulder, it won't break ribs, and won't turn your insides into jelly. .458 Lott is incredibly powerful. In a 10lb rifle it has about 70lbs of recoil energy. Holding this rifle against your ribs and shooting would definitely hurt a lot, but it won't break them. People don't fly back when you shoot them like in movies. Everyone who hunts should know this. The "break ribs" thing is from soft body armor. Kevlar "catches" the bullet and the impact is spread on a relatively small surface area. Those hurt, those can cause injury.
The fact that this plate took three rounds from an elephant rifle despite not being rated for anything of the sort is stupendously impressive. Sure the person wearing the armor probably wouldn’t survive but that was crazy.
Not immediately but after a few minutes of internal bleeding from ruptured organs and broken ribs scratching your insides most definitely...keeps its an open casket funeral rather than closed if that makes sense lol
P.O. Ackley proved small calibers at very high velocity will penetrate much farther than anything else. From memory, I remember he was using sections of caterpillar tracks from a half track truck. And the 22 & 24 cal bullets at 4,000+ fps were the only ones that went through the track sections like a hot knife through butter.
Maybe if you put a thick pad of shock-absorbent gel on the wearer side of the plate to take up some of that impact? Just a thought. Idk if that would really do anything.
My drill Sargent in basic claimed to have been second man through the door when the first man took both barrels of a twelve gauge point blank to the chest. Said the guy lived but was black and blue from navel to clavicles
The senseless slaughter of innocent cinder blocks just for entertainment. Totally barbaric.😁 Good news is it stopped the bullet. Bad news is he just pooped out his lungs and heart .
That rifle in .458 Lott is a beast. The steel armor is very impressive, didn't think it had a chance. If you can obtain some bullet resistant glass, I would enjoy watching it up against the .458.
Richard Ryan is basically the only one I've seen. High speed cameras that can capture bullets are 40,000 dollars plus as well. They are NOT cheap. and that doesn't include the hard drive space for the video files
A video about KB shooting at body armor. *Gets an ad featuring KB shooting at body armor and failing to go through.* Hell yeah I'm watching that through.
@@dylancowmeadow4280well yes but later down the years you may have problems with your body being so badly damage but with enough trama padding you could take alot of rounds that and a few other ways
Dylan Cowmeadow Tell that to all the people who don’t wear seat belts and smash their chests in dashboards and steering wheels. Your right. I would much rather the plate stop the bullet than not. But just because it did doesn’t mean your out of the woods. Looking at that cinder block? I wouldn’t want to test it...
A long time ago a gun writer for Guns & Ammo magazine, Howard French or Jack Lott of Guns & Ammo magazine had a gunsmith modify a Browning BAR hunting rifle from .338 Win. mag to .458 Win. Mag. It was interesting to say the least.
Try using the elephant gun on that armor strapped to 160 lb mannequin to see actually how far it would knock someone back even though it doesn't penetrate.
The armor might be rated for elephant rounds, but you definitely aren't. Imagine that cinder block being your chest behind the armor. Good luck surviving that, your insides will instantly turn into a smoothie of meat and bone
Watching you shoot the elephant rifle is worth subscribing alone. Only you can make that mule kick not look like it hurt you. In fact, you smile afterwards and say, “Let’s go bigger.”
@@lightweight1974 The *could*, if say they held a giant balloon in their trunk. (Apologies to Gary Larson, The Far Side) images.app.goo.gl/afNkp9RSekBH5w8B6
Sorry guys if my english writing is not the best. I don't want to excuse for anything but I'm from Austria and there for my english writing is not so good. Thank you for correcting me guys. I want to improve it anyway so...
@@DesKaisersMarineOffizier14 no one is correcting you Franz. They're making jokes about the government. Also, no one is saying that 308 is overkill for Infantry. In fact, it's encouraged.