The Explosive That Replaced TNT — The History of RDX
72K views · Aug 16, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@Finlay-o4t · 1 month ago
This is more comedy than history.
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@bryanst.martin7134 · 1 month ago
Informative and hilarious at the same time.
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@Will-dn9dq · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FoljN00LM&t=550">9:10</a> carts moving without anything pulled or pushed 😂😂
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@mamangisda1573 · 1 month ago
I want that cement mixer! It spouts an endless fountain of perfectly mixed concrete.
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@edmundlyczek3021 · 1 month ago
Wow, I did not know, In Los Alamo were used digital calipers !!!!!
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@gandalfgreyhame3425 · 1 month ago
The dambuster bombs were in oil barrel like containers, just like depth charges, and rotated around their long axis, perpendicular to the direction of the bomb drop. The idea was to skip these bombs off the water surface like a stone so that they would hit the dams at just the right height.
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@EdwardPCampbell · 1 month ago
Worst CGI ever. Cannons with barrels at both ends. Soldiers standing in the line of fire. This is the most physics contradicting assemblage I've ever seen.
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@gwc656g · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FoljN00LM&t=396">6:36</a> those are some serious cannon, fantastic when you are surrounded.
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@michaelwillette5738 · 1 month ago
The secret here was in WW2 was thr industrial willingness to move forward with "can do" at speed when the Axis withered and never had the industrial infrastructure. <br> Many documented stories on this. <br> Hitler never believed Ford could turn out 1 B24 per hour.
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@eleithias · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FoljN00LM&t=615">10:15</a> Ah yes, in 1940, the Macbook Pro was very popular among the chemists of the National Defense Research Committee
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@billhowcroft5751 · 1 month ago
Loved the rotating Dambuster bombs!
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@Benzyl · 1 month ago
I loved the 'shells' centre right at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FoljN00LM&t=256">4:16</a>
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