@@joshuadominguez1749 it will shatter your sternum causing the broken bone to turn into shrapnel ripping your insides to shit and the transfer of energy will cause your heart and lungs to implode and your arteries to rupture leaving you dead asf just saying.
I know, a lot of people are commenting that the shockwave will kill the person. but bear in mind, he shot the vest at such a short distance. In reality a .50 cal will be shot most probably from way further and in between if there are bullet proof glass or walls or other armour, I think the person will not die, might have some broken ribs may be.
Also you have to take into account that elasticity makes a great decision of your life. Concrete as demonstrated is absolutely unelastic, therefore breaks thoroughly for sure. Human body is flexible and mostly out of fluids. I am not saying your ribs might not get broken, but the damge will probably be way smaller since most of the pressure will get absorbed. Second fact is, that kinetic force is exponencial depending on the range, therefore from longer ranges you will get for ex. four times less power from the bullet and when degraded by human body flexibility, I believe you truly may survive with no major wound :D
I saw a video of someone shooting into a ballistic gel head from a distance and not upclose (unlike other ballistic gel channels). The head barely moved, in other videos it exploded.
Holy crap, it truly grinds my gears seeing this comment section missing the entire point of this test. *No!* You would NOT survive being shot at by a .50 Cal with this vest. But also *no,* the point of this vest is NOT to save your life from a .50 Cal in a real shootout condition. It's a purely experimental piece meant simply for showing and it's not even commercially available in the first place. The entire point of this test was both to show off how far we've come in terms of armor technology in the last 20 years and also for marketing purposes for SafeLife's other products. What 99% of people are failing to understand here is that not even a *single decade ago* the mere prospect of such a thin layer of armor ever coming even CLOSE to stopping the penetration of such round was thought to be something *utterly impossible!* Yet here we are! We got the penetration part solved. What a feat of material engineering, isn't it??? Now all that's left is to effectively pad the damn thing in the future. But no, let's ignore this recent progress and paradoxally pretend it never happened to make "Muh puréed lungs" jokes and pretend that commercially available .30-06 M2 AP rated body armor isn't a thing either. You know, a grade of preactical protection that so many soldiers from the 20th Century would've LOVED to get their hands on because practically almost no one wore anything that would provide any significant physical protection at all besides at best a flak jacket! Jeez, it's almost like Americans can't cope with the fact that armor is finally catching up to compete with commonplace small firearms for the first time in *FOUR ENTIRE CENTURIES!!!* And I do say so as a pro-gun person myself.
@@jimwarren6283 Depends. Quality of padding has been raising a lot along with the vest rechnology aswell. Not sure it's enough for the 50 Cal, but hey, it is improving too.
I'd like to introduce you to plates that will eat tripleshot of .50 and keep you alive with maybe a broken rib or two. Then there's older ones like the SARVIP that can take at least one of them. Field manuals do not agree on the subject.
I'm not an expert, and I have no idea if that carrier is soft armor or has a soft armor insert, but maybe the blunt force trauma can be reduced by wearing a trauma pad with soft armor under all of it.
Trauma pads do exist. However, stacking enough of them to absorb the impact of a damn 50 Cal would make the armor too heavy and cumbersome to be practical.
RU-vid recommended, I just watched a video of a .50 cal going through railroad railway chunks in slowmo. Every single shot went through, except the shot that hit it dead centre where the thickness was like 8 inches. Kudos to that vest.
@@gianfi_ You'd be surprised by how far technology of trauma absorbing materials has come aswell. It's definitely possible to make a vest + trauma pad combo that withstands both the penetration AND the impact of the .50 Cal. How heavy that would be is kind of another story, but I suppose it would at least be... wearable.
@@RitaSingh-yw7ey In real sniper engagement the bullet would have a lot more speed and would probably kill you, maybe not gou through but it would break all your ribs and the framents would pierce your guts.
@@xaviersoto5123 It actually is possible. The impact would sink into the vest but it would also sink into you, depending form the direction, windage, and range, it is possible for your ribs to be ripped out from your spine.
@@justsomememes4927 I know that, it honestly depends on where they shoot also but if u add another mettle layer and shock proof layer then u'd be more likely to live, but u'd have a better chance of surviving
That was amazing. I thought that there was very little chance that it could even stop a standard 50cal, then you put that incendiary tracer in it and I literally said to my self, 0% chance that gets stopped. They just now need to work out how to reduce/absorb some of the energy that hits the vest so that the wearer has a bit of a chance to survive the hit.
Well, trauma pads exist for this exact reason. There are some really good ones that can absorb the most part of fully powered cartridges' energy out there. But for a 50 Cal? Yeah, we might need to wait *at least* some good years to start making notable progress towards that, lol.
Bad day is better than a last one. And also. It wouldnt rupture internal organs. Thats why we have muscle and fat. To absorb and dissipate shock force. Severe bruising? Check. Stretch marks? Check. Light surface bleeding? Check. Pulse? Check. Bad day better than a last one.
@Awawawa CM Yes becaue concrete is very weak to tension (they use a thin slab and hit it in the middle causing it to separate, tension forces) but you could never shatter a concrete block using your hand because that would be compression which is it's strength.
While I'm not a gun guy, I do know a 50 cal is super powerful, so with my little knowledge, I honestly thought the vest would get blasted off the table, especially that close up, so that's pretty impressive. I'm pretty sure the shock wave from the impact would easily do some damage, or maybe kill you.
Yeah this is pretty much the equivalent to a shell not penetrating a tank, but just the sheer force leaving everyone inside blinded, deaf, and bloody. You're alive, just barely, but alive. And I think that's good.
GAURAV RANA The vest keeps your remnants all in one place at least, and all your organs in your body (even if they’re not really organs anymore after).
The pressure wave alone would have ruptured the heart. The makers absolutely know it's not a practical proposition and that's why they won't be making any for sale. There would be massive liability issues. A bit from a .50 big to the head of trunk is just not survivable, best or no vest.
I feel like it's just not worth wearing a vest to stop a 50. If someone is shooting at you with a 50, that's you're just done and need to accept that. lol
i work for united kingdom ministry of defense and we have built a similiar vest but ours uses free floating nylon wires imbedded with specially shaped glass beads to stop the "imprinting" effect seen here, it means the final dispersion of energy is sent through the wire like how a wristwatch wind up wire contains its energy when wound, only opposite
@@bojanbokan7502 depends. If yr lucky your organs might survive but your ribs certainly won't. Maybe adding additional styrofoam or something that could spread shot all over your chest so it would feel just like 50 string punches in chest in all areas.
The bullet may not kill you but I think the punch alone from it will or definitely do some major damage. I didn't think it would stop an AP round though!
Armor: I can stop a 50 cal bullet. Man wearing the armor: But why did I died? Armor: I didn't tell you that you wouldn't die, all I said is that I can stop bullets.
Sameer Sehrawat no the vest was designed for the sole purpose of stopping a 50 BMG. It’s a one off vest made by his requirements for one purpose only which was to stop a 50 BMG
Highly doubt it. Just didn't do enough damage to anything in that vest. Heck it absorbed so much energy the vest itself was still balanced after the cinder block cracked.
Sure you would probably still die being hit by a .50 BMG wearing this armor, but the fact that it stopped the bullet shows that it would probably save you from many other calibers, which is very impressive.
@AA Graam The body can't handle that energy, the heart would explode. There are those who have been killed by a fist blow to the chest. That's a thousand times more energy. But there will be less bloodshed anyway.
Even the smallest 0.50 cal fragment deflected off the vest will tear your face apart and in case the high velocity 0.50 cal gets any flesh it will surely open a new one for you. Still its indeed impressive such a thin vest stopped the bullet from penetrating. The thick ceramics we use barely stop a 7.62 and still not from such a close encounter.
Broken ribs definitely, internal bleeding...not sure, so I will leave it at 50/50, but there at least it gives a chance to live than die on spot. Force will knock one out, so you wont feel pain or anything I suspect, and meanwhile you can be carried to hospital, but your life is saved.
Everyone's talking about how even though this vest stops the bullet it wouldn't save your life, and rightfully so. But can we just acknowledge that even stopping it is seriously impressive? I've been inside armored vehicles that wouldn't stop a .50 BMG
Except here's the thing, this isn't the first armor designed specifically for .50 BMG. There's plates like the AA4UP, the SARVIP series, and the GOST BR6 plates. Those are designed to keep you mostly fine after .50 impact.
Yeah, instead of it piercing and potentially missing an organ. You can instead have it hit you with enough force to shatter multiple ribs and damage multiple organs with the concussive force. Like getting hit in the abdomen by the world's strongest man with a sledgehammer. So there is a good chance you die anyway. That being said, this thing would probably do wonders for lower calibers that get through other armor. Because there aren't exactly a lot of people running around with guns chambered in 50 bmg or similar. You might find the occasional memelord with a 50 AE pistol. But that has nowhere near the energy of the BMG.
@@formedmilitia1880 but still at 20 yards more realistically it would be a regular 50 cal instead of armour piercing incendiary and at around 2-300 yards
@@matejstuchlik1559 even 200-300 yards is still really close for a .50 unless it's from a coaxial or mounted browning. Out of the rifle he's shooting those shots would like be at 700-1000 yards.
I'm over here saying that in my head like for one most people wouldn't face a .50 let alone a BMG sniper in everyday life so wearing something that light on a day to day basis only more protection you need is a helmet that does the same
That body armour is amazing to stop ✋a 50 BMG at 20 yards is impossible. People forget he shot two 50 BMGS into the body armour too🤔 ??? The company who made this body armour is great 👍👏
You should get some of those pressure pads they put on crash test dummies to test the Jules the dummy receives… it will help you understand that even if the vest stops the bullet you’ll know if it will break ribs, collar bones or even your sternum
