IT BLEW-UP?! | Ballistic High-Speed React [RPG-7]

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  @itsmeknowlzy · 2 years ago

  Hey Rave,<br><br>I&apos;m the dude that got blown up in the video. I appreciate your breakdown and willingness to talk through it from your own perspective. Great video.

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• SE

  @senorpolya3748 · 2 years ago (edited)

  So basically, the launcher’s imported, but it’s illegal to import a working one (at least from Russia, who makes the RPG), so the people they bought it from broke it in a specific way so they could import it, and then the weld was to make it a “new” actual rocket launcher, which would (by legal technicality) be considered US-made and legal. But because that weld is a weak point in the structure now, when they used an oversized/overfueled rocket variant, it failed at the weld point.

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• CZ

  @czarnynight · 2 years ago (edited)

  you should see part of Unsubscribe podcast when they talk about it as they went there is more details and as it&apos;s more unhinged they didn&apos;t tried to make it PG<br>Adam is not griming if you were wondering nerves on his right side of face are in shock or dead but only time will tell. he may regain control of them from 6 months to many years from now or never. also few pieces of shrapnel hit his plate on chest (so blessed that he was wearing plate carrier with one inside) and it stopped them from going inside his chest. plate toke beating. somehow safety glasses stayed in one piece even tho they were hit as well. also fun fact Adam was in same hospital as Scott from Kentucky ballistics and had same doc.

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  @shinigamiking69 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boBAd6uvmA&amp;t=1210">20:10</a> what they were referencing welding in place is the fact that it was originally a demilled rpg 7 and to make it functional again they take a piece of metal and reweld it back in place because to demil an rpg 7 u basically cut a hole into the side of it that way pressure from the booster rocket igniting cant propel the rocket out of the tube

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• RL

  @RLKmedic0315 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The guys trying to do a SAMPLE history is quite nice. &nbsp;You can tell they are shaken up (understandable) and they knew the information would be important, but they were not quite focusing in like a professional medic. &nbsp;<br><br>As a paramedic of 27 years it is very interesting to see the incident occur, we almost always get there after the initial accident. &nbsp;Seeing the forces involved gives a lot of interesting perspective.<br><br><br>Note: &nbsp;a SAMPLE history is an acronym. &nbsp;<br><br>S)igns and symptoms<br><br>A)llergies<br><br>M)edications <br><br>P)ast pertinent history<br><br>L)ast oral intake<br><br>E)vents leading to incident

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• JO

  @joel9087 · 2 years ago (edited)

  When he says &quot;grenaded&quot; he means the whole tube he was holding would have blown up due to the building pressure and he would have been killed and more or less his whole head and most of his upper body would have been shredded by all the fragments.<br><br>Luckily the weld patch failed and allowed the building gas and pressure to escape, and in doing so saved his life but it still messed him up. And his helmet and plate carrier took most of the blow.

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• PI

  @PinKing554 · 2 years ago (edited)

  In these situation it is usually set up before hand who is the designated person to call 911 and who the back ups will be if the designated person is also hurt. This goes down in the debrief before any sort of shooting happens. It&apos;s called an SOP

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• ᲚᲣ

  @ლუკაგოგლიჩაძე-ძ2ღ · 1 year ago

  there was explosion like this but that guy didnt survive his head came off

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• NO

  @nobodyyouknow6998 · 2 years ago

  Hey Rave, I&apos;m not sure you correctly registered a couple things. &nbsp;I wanna try to clear a couple things up. &nbsp;The Grenade part of the RPG is a dummy essentially. &nbsp;It won&apos;t go boom it&apos;s just visual. &nbsp;The launcher going grenade as they stated was if the weld had not failed and vented for the rocket part to relieve pressure. &nbsp;They think the rocket part split into a couple parts with both firing at different sides of the internal part next to where the weld was. Had the weld not failed and allowed that pressure to vent the pressure would have built up and then exploded into shrapnel like a grenade.<br><br>Secondly these launchers are like ex military stuff. They have been decommissioned some components added to it to make it unable to function as intended. &nbsp;To recommission these the people these guys got it from had to cut open or drill into the launcher to remove said components. &nbsp;They then welded over the parts they worked on to patch it back up to let it work again. &nbsp;No matter how good the weld is, it is now a weak point. &nbsp;This ended up being somewhat serendipitous as it allowed the explosion to vent rather than build up and become even more dangerous.

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• SP

  @spyro257 · 2 years ago

  if the booster failed like they said, and there&apos;s nowhere for the explosion to go, it will fail at the weakest point first, that being the weld, and if it was not welded there, it might have turned into a big shrapnel bomb, with a chance of also hitting others around him... they were very lucky!

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• RA

  @RageinriotTJ · 2 years ago

  The RPG-7 they were shooting was basically decommissioned and made unfireable, when they had it remilled they had the firing pin reinstalled, and to fix that you also have to do some welding. that is what they are talking about, you dont have to weld it after every shot

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• CH

  @Chrissweet1701 · 2 years ago

  The launcher failed on the bottom side of the wood and metal joint. The force of the downward pressure is what launched to up.

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