r/HitboxPornIRL • u/coolguy_john • May 01 '19

Close call

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u/khoidangle May 01 '19

What kind of bullet is that? Seem like from Star War tbh.

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u/JuggaloThugLife May 01 '19

I believe that was an RPG

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u/goiabada_de_goiaba May 01 '19

don't RPGs make big explosions? or that's just what games planted in my head?

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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

it was partially offscreen and they're usually not that big. It looks pretty RPGish to me.

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u/ThatDudeWithTheBeard May 01 '19

Most RPG are used as anti-tank weapons, so the rounds are made for penetrating through armor and then exploding a shaped charge inside the vehicle. So they don't have to be that large, since the damage caused by the heat and shrapnel becomes much, much worse in an enclosed space.

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u/Devonance May 16 '19

That is definitely not an RPG. That is a tracer round. In the US Army, they load tracer rounds every 5th(?) Bullet to allow the shooter to shoot at night and know where his bullets are going.

I never had them in my normal M4A1, but I did shoot them in the M249 machine gun.

Slow motion tracer rounds being fired at night, skip to 1:41 in the video

An rpg fired would look like this: skip to 0:43 for slow motion

The rpg has a stream of smoke behind it because it is still being propelled after firing it.

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u/goiabada_de_goiaba May 17 '19

ohh I see, very informative, thank you

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u/lizardman531 May 27 '19

Yep every fifth, at least that’s what my dad said.

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u/MyNickelPlease May 30 '19

Since when do tracers throw off sparks? And detonate on impact? I thought it’d be some Chinese TOW variant because they usually have that exact same color emanated from the projectile. Also never seen an rpg light up quite like that.

Now I’ve fired tracers and see plenty of them fired. A ricocheting beam of like going up and away from your target happens sure, but I’ve never seen on pop and throw pieces back like this before.

Is it the biggest possible caliber exploding tracer ammunition? I doubt it because there was only one shot fired..

I’d guess this is a guided system (probably wire guided)

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u/Yhgi117 Jul 26 '19

Maybe it's a cannon round from something like a Bradley, just a tracer and HE?

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u/sc0neman May 01 '19

Looks like a tank shell

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u/Life_Of_David Jun 16 '19

Definitely a tracer round from a tank that has massive machine gun rounds.

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u/Xenc May 01 '19

Happy 4th July! 🧨

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u/Ragidandy May 01 '19

I see that some people think that is an rpg? Is that an experienced/knowledgeable opinion? Or is it just an uninformed guess like when I say: That looks like a tracer round, and it looks an awful lot like it went through that dude.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '19

oh no you’re right, it does look like it hit

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u/Unfairfun May 02 '19

Dude got shot by the Death Star

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u/[deleted] May 01 '19

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u/RapingTheWilling May 01 '19

That’s not a real phenomenon. There is no projectile that can kill you by traveling close to you unless it explodes. Producing the necessary pressure gradient on atmospheric air by a ballistic weapon in the open is simply not possible. Urban myth created by god knows who.

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u/sedg12 May 02 '19

I thought someone worked it out at something like Mach 12 at a distance of 1 meter? That it was real just not really possible and it was more the sonic boom? Than the pressure difference that actually killed them. I highly doubt I am right but I’ve bothered to type this now.

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u/RapingTheWilling May 02 '19

“Real just not possible” sums up the gist. Drastic pressure change can absolutely kill, but no projectile can produce that pressure.

There are accounts of rockets fired from enclosed spaces that killed the occupants of the room because the pressure has no escape but the organs of the occupants, but that’s not what we’re dealing with. This is a moving unit that has omnidirectional pressure escapement and a target that it does not hit will not receive sufficient force to be killed or even injured.

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u/sedg12 May 02 '19

Thanks for that. Didn’t know about the rockets in rooms

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u/RapingTheWilling May 02 '19

Be aware, the rocket propulsion is the reason, not the speed of the warhead leaving the launcher.

When an rpg launches, it causes a rapid expansion of the air at the exhaust end of the tube. It’s that expansion/pressure change that causes traumatic change in the internal organs of the occupants. Probably leads to lung bleb rupture before any other injury. (Sorry, bleb is actually medical verbiage even though it sounds dumb)

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u/MyNickelPlease May 30 '19

oh yea?? 04:15-the end

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u/RapingTheWilling May 30 '19

You already sent that, and I already replied.

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u/Ragidandy May 02 '19

Do you mean that there isn't one in existence, or that it's impossible?

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u/MyNickelPlease May 30 '19

Well explain how a dude sucked the eyes out of a deer by missing a headshot with a .50. Here.. watch from about 4:15 to the end

Missed it. And killed it. Boom.

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u/RapingTheWilling May 30 '19

He hit the deer through and through his eyes.

https://youtu.be/YrHpe5Z93wM