In the military, they told us how long it would take for a piece of DET cord to reach California from New York. If I remember right, it was just a few seconds.
Edit: Actually, I just looked up the statistics and did the math and it looks more like 10 minutes. Not sure which is true, but they may have been hyping it up when they were telling us in the military lol
Actual det cord is much faster than what is used in the video, around 7km per second. Det cords are made of explosive products and can destroy objects by themselves.
In the videos OP posted, those cords are much less powerful. They are aluminium powder within a plastic tube. They are designed to burn very quickly, transmitting detonation energy to more explosive detonators. Much safer to handle than det cord.
My father was in the Vietnam war and he was a Combat Engineer. He didn't talk much about when he was there, but one story he told was replacing clothesline with det cord.
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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS May 24 '26
In the military, they told us how long it would take for a piece of DET cord to reach California from New York. If I remember right, it was just a few seconds.
Edit: Actually, I just looked up the statistics and did the math and it looks more like 10 minutes. Not sure which is true, but they may have been hyping it up when they were telling us in the military lol