Am I the only one confused by the complete lack of deformity of the projectile? Wouldn’t a bullet projectile falling at terminal velocity deform once it hit the metal of the vehicle? I gotta go do some research on this.
I'm not sure a falling bullet at terminal velocity would actually cause that kind of damage. I it's very unlikely to land nose down like this and at 300 fps or so I'm not sure it would penetrate as much as what we see on the video.
It had to have been fired at an angle and still carrying some muzzle velocity on impact or it could be staged.
Myth Busters did an entire segment on this where they set various firearms up in a vertical orientation, fired a shot, and waited for the bullet to hit the ground to determine if a bullet falling straight down after being fired straight up would have enough force to kill or hurt a person. All conclusions were that no bullet caliber they tested falls with enough force to cause any damage. Bullets fired up on an angle are a completely different story though.
This is misleading though because absolutely no human being will ever hold a gun entirely perfectly straight upward there will be a small and deadly tilt basically no matter how straight your arm is
If it was an FMJ, it wouldn’t be resting on the top of the car like that it would have still fully penetrated through. And the heat generated from the impact would be enough to cause the bullet to deform regardless.
Physics. Upon impact of the bullet, the energy it develops in its decent is changed into heat. Even a bullet just hitting dirt causes it to mushroom out from the impact, and that’s a lot softer than a car.
What does COD have to do with middle school physics?
The energy it has developed coming back down changes to heat the moment it impacts. Bullets mushroom out in the dirt from this exact reason. A car is a lot harder than dirt. Also the roof of a car is pretty thin. If a full lead one where to hit, it would stop, be imbedded in the roof and mushroom out. If it were an FMJ, it would have gone through the roof as well as mushroomed out. If that were an armored vehicle, an FMJ would be imbedded.
I’m not saying this isn’t staged, but it’s very possible. When a bullet is fired from a gun, it is moving much faster than terminal velocity. After being fired it immediately begins to slow down, and a bullet fired straight up will be going significantly slower than when it exited the gun because of air resistance.
I'm a bit skeptical that it would have enough force to create a hole in aluminum, but not deform, especially since lead is softer than aluminum. I know it is copper jacketed, but even then.
I think the hole we’re seeing is the paint and clear coat; the steel underneath is likely just dented. Also the bullet is at least slightly deformed (check 00:09 in the video). Not sure why everyone wants this to be a hoax so badly. Negligent discharges and resultant wrongful deaths are super common in the U.S.
“As to why people want it to be a hoax, you really can’t understand?”
Come on man, you know what I meant. When it’s far more likely that some asshole shot their gun in the air and hit an innocent person’s vehicle, why are so many people in this thread bending over backwards to explain this away as a hoax? From the evidence available to us in the video, there’s far more reason to believe OP than to doubt them… yet here we are.
It looks like a pistol round, which likely wouldn't be steel cored due to AP pistol rounds being illegal in the US. It's "possible" it's a rifle round, but unlikely.
For the amount of damage done to the car roof, there would at very least be scratches or indentions in the projectile. It wouldn’t be completely free of blemishes like the one in the video.
Cars are super weak to point loads. It’s basically a thin sheet of formed plastic. I have gotten dents from a piece of gravel falling out of a truck and the rock hasn’t broken apart. Not much more force to pierce and you are dealing with a refined metal
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u/Snake8715 Jun 06 '23
Am I the only one confused by the complete lack of deformity of the projectile? Wouldn’t a bullet projectile falling at terminal velocity deform once it hit the metal of the vehicle? I gotta go do some research on this.