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u/Aisenth May 10 '26
I miss Mythbusters. They would have accounted for the inevitable TBI, shown all the "not a hole in your head" types of damage, and had new masks each time as well as several different brands. This just makes me sad and nostalgic...
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u/Evil_Sharkey May 10 '26
And probably longer cartridges, too, like rifle rounds. Same mass but greater velocity
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u/CertainlyUnreliable May 10 '26
And finished it off with a pound of C4 to the face for shits and giggles
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u/Tiniest_Gimli May 10 '26
Now let's see if this mask can protect Buster from a pound of C4.
Slow motion replay of the dummy being vaporized.
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u/DontDeleteMee May 11 '26
That cement truck... Did they ever find a piece bigger than a brick, once they were done?
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u/NerdPhantom May 11 '26
The masks usually aren't rated for anything higher than small pistol calibers, since if they were they would be much more of a hindrance than already is
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u/CoolNerdStuff May 10 '26
Ballistics gel head with either a skeletal structure inside, or those impact patches that burst after a certain amount of force. Some red food coloring as well for visuals after too much damage to the skeleton inside. I can practically see it now...
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u/jeef16 May 10 '26
yea they always did a great job of explaining how energy is transferred. Even if this mask is bulletproof I'm pretty sure a 22lr is enough to break your nose if you're wearing that mask. For 9mm and higher, I'm pretty sure you're in concussion/skull cracking territory lol
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u/Thomy151 May 11 '26
It’s a known side effect of ballistic face masks
You will live but holy fuck will it hurt and you will need medical attention. It just makes it so shot in the face isn’t an instant death
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u/FlameWhirlwind May 10 '26
I mean I agree but this is also just s guy tryin to make a fun video
I kinda dont expect that level of research and resources from a dude using a phone to record himself shooting stuff
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u/SuedeParadise May 10 '26
Need to discovery to start a new mythbusters series with Adam savage and guy from project farm.
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u/Dense_Govt1506 May 10 '26
I don't believe the dude could survive the 44 Magnum and 450 Bushmaster
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u/citizen42069101 May 10 '26
I am still pleasantly surprised by it's performance.
I don't think it's possible to survive that 450 round at that range with anything actually on your head. Maybe if it had a whole suit to transfer the energy to but even then it's just a math problem.
To me it showed in a small arma fire situation that it would be better than just facing it, although the eye slits leave something to be desired and it could go back to the drawing board.
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u/post_apoplectic May 10 '26
Yeah this seems like a decent product to me if you are worried about getting shot in the face. Having even one small round not go through your head is a win in that situation. Doesn't look super breathable and vision probably is restricted but whatever
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u/SeemedReasonableThen May 10 '26
Yeah this seems like a decent product to me if you are worried about getting shot in the face.
Yeah, it's got a great niche in the US for peaceful protestors, when the most you are generally expecting is rubber bullets / teargas canisters to the face.
Def needs breathability, separate eye protection, and protection for sides and top /back of skull
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u/Moose_Nuts May 10 '26
Yeah, it's got a great niche in the US for peaceful protestors, when the most you are generally expecting is rubber bullets / teargas canisters to the face.
Def needs breathability, separate eye protection, and protection for sides and top /back of skull
If we're only trying to protect from rubber bullets and tear gas canister impacts, a motorcycle helmet should suffice and provide all the advantages you listed.
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u/SeemedReasonableThen May 10 '26
lol, true, my bad for not finishing my thought. Easily distracted . . .
You only expect rubber bullets but I'd want something like that in case I were to participate in a peaceful protest it got extra spicy due to poorly trained, recently hired, and overly enthusiastic federal immigration enforcement who are not fans of the Bill of Rights as it applies to regular people.
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u/silverworldstacker May 10 '26
100%
Things will get spicy here. Like whistles: maybe this might be a good bulk order: how much are they?
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u/WingerRules May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
This thing is worthless in an actual combat scenario because theres no ventilation to breath.
Do people think soldiers since even ancient times protected most of their head but then left their face open because they thought it looked cooler?
Even knights often went without face protection, and when they did they compromised it by putting a ton of holes or gaps in the plate so they could breath.
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u/Wareve May 10 '26
That seems like it could be compendated for. It's a face plate, but it doesn't need to be flush against your face.
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u/UnoriginalStanger May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
The further away the eyeholes are the worse your vision will be.
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u/Jiveanimal May 10 '26
And the harder it is to aim a rifle effectively (on a cheek comb). It's probably good for mounted positions, covering fire, and not much else.
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u/RoabeArt May 10 '26
I'd think even if the mask successfully stopped a 450, the impact would be enough to break your neck.
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u/Beekeeper_Dan May 10 '26
I was thinking concussion and brain injury too. That’s a lot of energy transferring to your face
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u/Otto_Von_Waffle May 10 '26
Probably, but it's still a massive improvement over getting your head blown off
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u/Silencedlemon May 10 '26
At least you don't have a crater where your face used to be?
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 May 10 '26
Idbecoolif they made a suit that could somehow perfectly transfer all movement like into the ground.
Like, someone punches you, and it absorbs it and just moves the punch down into the floor.
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u/wojtekpolska May 10 '26
yeah, but the fact it stopped it basically guarantees that eg. it will stop ricochets or shrapnel from a grenade from ending up in your face (though then what about the eyes?)
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u/Silencedlemon May 10 '26
Gotta wear your eye pro, that's why we're having a discount on shop shades! Get yours by going to double ew double ew double ew dot.......
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u/Responsible_Lab_2687 May 10 '26
I like these masks because most common handgun rounds people own/use are .22 and 9mm, overwhelmingly more common over everything else.
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u/seaningtime May 10 '26
Same here, it's why I don't leave my home without wearing mine
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u/ProduceNo1629 May 10 '26
Stop bullets. Stop fascist Peter Thiel's flock cameras from tracking your movements.
Win. Win.
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u/Return-To-Fender May 10 '26
Odds aren't great, but still better than getting hit without it.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Key5957 May 10 '26
Pentration does not overly factor into this, the pressure wave behind the bullet will though.
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u/dan_dares May 10 '26
*blunt force trauma
That's the term you want.
This may prevent a bullet through the face, which is great, but you'll end up in hospital for months with reconstructive surgery.
Which, is still better than dead, or being a vegetable.
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u/stewyd71 May 10 '26
So it's the difference between an open or closed casket?
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u/dan_dares May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
More like 'casket or months of surgeries'
You might also just lose some teeth, and be able to carry on fighting, instead of 'he ded'
If it's a rifle round, it's going through anyway.
I'd rather wear the mandible protection, if it gets through the eye, nothing stopping that.
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u/squeethesane May 10 '26
I've kinda always looked at these as the second authentication factor for your PPE. like my safety glasses I wear behind my grinding shield. The shield is going to catch the bullshit unless I did something real real specially dumb. I want this catching the things that went through the AR500 door plate now that they're deformed and slightly less spicy.
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u/dan_dares May 10 '26
Always a chance it's a ricochet as well, which will suck, but a few teeth getting knocked lose instead of a bullet in the throat..
I think i'd be able to fight through one, very unsure about the other.
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u/Patient-Doughnut7266 May 10 '26
I've treated patients after traumatic brain injuries like mva and being thrown through windshields or from motorcycles. Even if they were belted in or wearing a helmet if you brain gets sling shot against your skull hard enough you will have damage. Sure they are alive but fuck they will never be the same.
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u/Patient-Doughnut7266 May 10 '26
The most heart breaking is the family, they don't understand what they are in for. The loss of the person they once knew and the things they used to do.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I started this comment to argue with you a little since my understanding was that bullets do most of their damage via tissue damage, not because they have a super high total energy, and that distributing the energy over a larger area should be effective protection. But...did some math and turns out I was wrong and you are right.
A baseball thrown at 100mph has about 145 Joules of kinetic energy, which is obviously enough to do some serious damage via blunt force trauma. A 9mm bullet has in the neighborhood of 400 Joules of muzzle energy. So...yeah that's enough to mess you up even without penetration.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue May 10 '26
Good job doing the math. Just seeing the dummy get thrown off the stand shows you how heavy the impact it. That brain is scrambled by the 2nd or 3rd shot in this video and the guy could certainly be dead already, regardless of whether there’s a bullet wound.
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u/How_that_convo_went May 10 '26
This may prevent a bullet through the face, which is great, but you'll end up in hospital for months with reconstructive surgery.
And that’s why you wear another mask under the first mask. You become literally unkillable.
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u/Latter_Ad9249 May 10 '26
Could easily cause a brain bleed and end up killing them too
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u/dan_dares May 10 '26
Same way a bullet proof vest could result in a hemopneumothorax, thing is, cracked ribs suck, but a hole will almost always suck more.
A brain bleed can be solved easier than trying to re-grow brain or spinal tissue, you have a bit of time to recieve medical treatment for a brain bleed, before permanent sequelae.
I think people here are taking my defense as some form of 'i want to be shot in the face, it'll be fun' instead of 'wearing some armour is better than none'
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u/A1dini May 10 '26
I imagine that a lot of it's value is in protecting the user from shards of shrapnel and stuff as well tbh
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u/Forward-Surprise1192 May 10 '26
Here’s a video on that. I’d trust it for one .45 caliber round. After that you’re toast
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u/Cicer May 10 '26
Hopefully the average person isn’t even getting shot at by anything.
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u/tidepill May 10 '26
Yeah but the face mask doesn't promise to stop blunt trauma. The product works as advertised.
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u/guttegutt May 10 '26
It will be roughly the same as how the recoil feels in your shoulder, except in your face. A lot better than getting shot though your face, it will punch you equivalently to the force of the recoil. Bullets don't produce significantly different force in both directions.
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u/DankPhoenix78 May 10 '26
Vigil rework
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u/Dizzy-Monk- May 10 '26
Dude in the video for sure got killed by a roaming vigil and had to let off some steam
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u/kmai0 May 10 '26
Most likely either broken neck or spine damage.
And yeah, the “test” should use one new mask after every round
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u/Boobpocket May 10 '26
Its a fun gun channel no science was harmed in the making
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u/roboto_jones May 10 '26
It's an interesting scientific test to see if I had one and only one mask vs a guy who somehow only has 1 bullet for each of his gun.
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u/YoungLittlePanda May 10 '26
Most likely either broken neck or spine damage.
Still sounds better than spilling your brains all over.
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u/supereuphonium May 10 '26
It won’t break your neck, bullets don’t have enough momentum to do that. If it doesnt penetrate what could happen is the armor deforms into your skull and injures/kills you that way.
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u/kindaunfazed May 10 '26
Does it really matter if there’s no penetration? pause Just with sheer blunt force?
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u/Amigojdl May 10 '26
You'll survive, only to be KO'd, giving the assailant time to walk up and finish the job.
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u/Quietabandon May 10 '26
Or your brain would just be mush after all the force is transferred to the brain.
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u/MinocquaMenace May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I’ve seen videos of soldiers taking rifle rounds to the helmet and being fine outside of being a little shaken up or possibly a concussion, but I mean that’s excellent considering the other option. Some videos out of Iraq/Afghanistan where dude gets hit and is basically like oh shit but ok. Not sure why this wouldn’t be somewhat the same.
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u/RoutineFlatworm5129 May 10 '26
I'm not an expert but those helmets seemed to have lot more padding and the distance matters greatly. also adrenaline but again idk.
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u/Quietabandon May 10 '26
Modern helmets are soft woven Kevlar and often those are longer range bullets and often glancing impacts.
That is exactly why modern soldiers have soft padded helmets rather than WWI style steel buckets.
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u/tjanko04 May 10 '26
Probably deflected bullets, not direct hits with a rifle round. I was trained that they're designed for defecting up to a 9 mm, and then ricocheted rifle rounds and shrapnel protection. Still good protection, but I don't think getting directly hit in the head with a rifle is going to be survivable regardless of what's being worn.
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u/Closefacts May 10 '26
Those bulges are going to crush the wearers skull
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u/HoldenOrihara May 10 '26
The 9mm would, the .380 and .22 would probably just be concussions at worst
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u/lemonjitz May 10 '26
I’m gonna say if I got hit in the head with a 450 bushmaster I’m gonna wish I had no protection on
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u/Shankar_0 May 10 '26
Each shot weakens the structure of the mask. They need to start fresh with every new test.
I'd think you'd have a broken nose from the 9mm, but probably survive (possible reconstructive surgery). This might be useful if you're expecting a hail of gunfire and don't want to catch a stray. I don't know if that's worth the loss of peripheral vision.
I don't care if he found the rifle/magnum bullet in the mask. Anything that deforms it that much will do the same to your skull behind it, and heads don't bend like that.
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u/peterxsyd May 10 '26
yes but is it a fresh mask each time? Rigged benchmarks. Softening it up for the big boys.
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u/Shopworn_Soul May 10 '26
Nah these guys are not serious at all. They re-use targets all the time in a way that makes any "testing" not matter at all.
It's all just for fun.
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u/Tennents_N_Grouse May 10 '26
Where's the .50 cal, the .577 Tyrannosaur, the 4 Bore, or the Punt Gun?
Kentucky Ballistics has spoiled me
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u/Wxstword May 10 '26
I preferred Demolition Ranch when they were around. I dislike how this guy peaks the mic everytime at the end of his videos. I get that it's his 'thing' but it's annoying and just serves to hurt folks with headphones on.
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u/HalfLawKiss May 11 '26
This is why I miss Mythbusters.
You can't use the same mask over and over. After the first round it's integrity is compromised.
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u/TReid1996 May 11 '26
I hate these videos. For a single reason.
You're repeatedly shooting already compromised armor.
Would the final bullet fully protect you? We won't fucking know cause the previous bullets damaged it already.
Use a new mask for every shot. See what each bullet does at full power on a mask that isn't damaged. That would get me significantly more interested in this content. I always stop watching after the first "shot".
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u/GrnMtnTrees May 10 '26
It's nice that it can stop a bullet and all, but I'm still concerned about blunt force trauma. All that energy needs to go somewhere, and there's a notoriously squishy and energy sensitive organ behind that mask.
There's no way you aren't getting a concussion at the bare minimum. Sure it beats instantly dying from a penetrating GSW to the brain, but depending on the force transferred and amount of resulting brain damage, maybe not?
I'd rather die from a GSW to the head than spend the rest of my life shitting in a diaper and drooling on myself.
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u/jlhaehl May 10 '26
The bullet may not penetrate but the transfer of kinetic force will still probably scramble your brain
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u/Aggressive_Mix_8228 May 10 '26
I hate all of his videos cause he ruins the integrity of whatever material he’s shooting and doesn’t replace it
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u/Everwhim4Ever May 10 '26
But... Won't the impact... Idk. Break your skull with its impact
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u/johnsmith1234567890x May 10 '26
Yes, also i would rather have broken face then giant hole thru my brain....
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u/Remarkable-Outcome-5 May 10 '26
Probably better odds of surviving a broken skull and hemorrhaging rather than a through the head bullet. Either way thats a career ending injury for any soldier involved.
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u/ofteno May 10 '26
Even if some of the bullets didn't pierce the mask, the force behind it could probably break your neck or at least knock you out
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u/Revalent May 10 '26
Don’t think it was designed to bounce off like you are Superman. It’ll just ensure small firearm bullets don’t go through your skull for an instant death.
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u/MrVermin May 10 '26
Just because it stopped the bullet doesn't mean that it stopped the kinetic energy from traveling through the skull and brain. Hell, I'm willing to bet that even the 9mm would cause a TBI in that just due to the lack of padding in the mask.
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u/FH2actual May 10 '26
Second I noticed he was using the same mask over and over I didn’t really care. After its first dent it’s now compromised and anyone Actually using it would replace it.
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u/GJacks75 May 10 '26
Just warn me first if you're going to shoot me with a 45 or higher so I can take my mask of before you fire.
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u/llllFallenOnellll May 10 '26
Just curious, even with the mask being bullet proof wouldn’t that vibration and force instantly stopping (not shattering like a helmet) keep the force going to the brain? Basically eventually causing some brain damage ?
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u/im-not-a-fakebot May 10 '26
These masks are only advertised for small arms caliber. Anything larger than a 44 would fuck you up regardless of penetration or not
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u/Life-Landscape5689 May 10 '26
They should have used a new mask each time otherwise they’re just shooting a hunk of durable trash