Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]
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#2That's a nice explanation of how anti-tank weapons work.
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#3In principle, I think this is how we defeat invading aliens. Production value of this piece is interesting. It kind of seems like an infomercial for PE4.
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#4Is there a diagram of the setup? I find the video pretty confusing to watch.
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#5Is there a diagram of the setup? I find the video pretty confusing to watch.
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#6This is just a few dollars worth of copper and explosives.
Attach it to a few tens of dollars worth of drone. (The cheapest drones are under 10 dollars now).
A country could release 1000 of these and direct them at any military target, and they'll do massive amounts of damage at very low costs.
Most anti-drone defences can be defeated simply with a redesign of the drone (eg. Use UWB for Comms, and have dual gyros and use a camera for location instead of GPS).
I think the only reason we haven't seen this on the battlefield yet is that we haven't yet had a war between the right countries. But we will.
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#7If you're going to play around with explosives, an old knowledgeable teacher is best. I imagine incompetence gets weeded out early. The guy in the video has been in quite a few others too. It's fun to see how the hosts are usually a little nervous and he's calm as can be.
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#8Dr Alford also designed water-lined shaped charges for disrupting IEDs -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Alford#Early_Inventions
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#9Now I want to look into 3d printed explosives
Re: Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]
#10Now I want to look into 3d printed explosives
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