The Space Shuttle burned 30% of its fuel reaching a velocity of Mach 1.
I don't understand why these types of rail technology (or Maglev) isn't being used to accelerate payloads to those speeds before throwing them off and allowing the rockets to kick in. Its a pretty high capitol investment but its estimated that you can have a payload increase of 80% just by getting a rocket to 0.8 Mach initially.
Stupid stupid people, read this and thumbs up to stop the rant. The record the Thrust SSC set was for the fastest MANNED VEHICLE by breaking the speed of sound. THIS is attached to a rail underneath and powered by rockets. It's the fastest UNMANNED ROCKET SLED. The record John Stapp set was for the fastest MANNED ROCKET SLED. No human could possibly survive the speeds shown on this video. P.S: The Thrust SSC is faster than John Stapp's rocket sled, convinced now?
@VrOOm1337 really the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at more then 18000 miles an hour the escape veloscity to leave the earths atmosphere is 25000 thousand mph
The only accurate comment on this entire thread was the first one.. Woah.. the rest of you need to stfu. The brits are pissed we made andy ( is he a god btw the brits think so) look slow. This is a land speed record for unmanned vehicles. Stop being stupid. Andy broke the sound barrier proven fact. Stfu all of you this is real and after reading almost a 1000 comments of this shit, you all need a chill pill.
SO many picky people on these comments. All of you complain to each other on how fast this rocket thing goes when to be honest I just like to watch it. If someone just stood next to me and told me how fast it was going I'll just nod along and not give a crap.
@mageac If you type in what I said above you will see a man travelling on one at the same speed as this, honest check it out. The blood in his face comes to the surface, you see him sitting there afterwards aswel in the hospital and he's ok! He lived to tell the tale at least.
@mageac Thanks for clarifying it for me. I should have known really because the video here we are commenting on shows a sled doing warp speed and the one with John Stapp is going fast but there obviously not doing nowhere near the same speeds. I just watched both again. Sorry for wasting your time. ;)
@gamblemadman trust me, he'd be dead by the time the rocket barely got to the second stage, and would be a huge slushpuppy when it would hit the third stage :)
@SlayerGod999 the continental US the probably (not completely sure) around 5000km across, it would take half an hour assuming this thing traveled at this speed through the whole trip. that would be an EPIC WIN
I know these things are capable of doing several thousand mph, but is this really the record run? I mean, I know it's really flat out there, but it doesn't look like the beginning of the track is 10 miles away from the camera (I assume the camera is sitting at the end of the track. After all, we hear the impact before we ever hear the rocket.) The rocket at launch looks alot closer than 10 miles.
@AgentBeagle I don't know the distance between the track and the camera, but the entire length of the track nearly 10 miles (50,788 ft). And this time, however, actually only 17,014 ft. run by the sleds. See ｉｍｐａｃｔｌａｂ．ｎｅｔ／２００６／０１／１５／ｔｈｅ－ｆａｓｔｅｓｔ－ｒｏｃｋｅｔ－ｓｌｅｄ－ｏｎ－ｅａｒｔｈ／ (Sorry for being full-sized to avoid an error)
@AgentBeagle The camera was placed one mile away from the end of the track. The starting place may not appear to be that far away, but it is. Don't forget that the sled was going fast enough to cover that distance in only a few seconds.
The sled was propelled by a four-stage sled train. A Super Roadrunner (SRR) rocket motor, developed specifically for the HUP program, powered each of the last two stages.
put a seat on it, make a sledge that aims 40degrees uprange, and buy a cake and party for inventing the cheapest way for commercial space weightlessness.
much more efficient then Spaceship two etc.
And im serious.
You only need to survive 50-100GS for 6 seconds and your done.
but when it comes to being serious i have only one thing to say.
@Armigo91 - I doubt you contribute very many tax dollars to projects like this because you likely cannot get and keep a good paying job. Likely, people with jobs, like myself, are supporting you. I suspect you flunked out of school and live off of the government as it is.
You can save all that money and move to a country that will have you. Or, you can vote for Obama again, he will give you a free place to live, feed you, and give you free healthcare.
For what possible reason would they go to all the trouble, to see if a rocket can go that fast? Of coarse it can. This can't be a rocket test but a sled test. Supposedly from the crap I've been hearing a 10 mile track tented and filled with helium. WHY. So the US can lead the world in sled technology? Or test warheads on concrete? Again WHY? For those who wish to reply DON'T I will delete you on the spot. I personally don't give a shit about your opinions on shit you don't know anything about.
This is a response for zapphire1 and shiftysmooth "Were you there? Were either one of you jack asses part of the research teams? Do you have the slightest inkling of what the hell your talking about? Or are both of you just fucking morons who believe anything your told." Ooh it went warp nine because I saw it on a TV show. It was a magnetically elevated sled sliding on a film of helium gas and propelled by pixie dust because I read it somewhere. I believe all this shit because I was told to.
@talon55130 Wow man, for being decent at math you fight logid tooth and nail. Once you actually go to (publically allowed viewings similar to this), you'd honestly submit and say logic is right.
Truely man you are dumb for thinking those who saw personally, or design this technology are wrong.
So put your so-called calculator away and go see a public held viewing, it will change your life!
To all the nonbelievers, it is true. I just watched this same footage on Modern Marvels, this is some kind of military testing and it is Mach 8.6 Over eight and a half times the speed of sound. Damn!
@neonmike1000 I watched it too Mike... was that insane or what ? What was it, 150 times the force of gravity would be exerted on a human if he had been strapped to this ? 200lb man = 30,000 lbs of force... Did you also catch the spot on the Shanghai Maglev Train ? 270 mph ! I wanna ride that, seriously.
@lonestarduffer Yeah I saw the part with the train. Did you see the guy who was doing one of the tests I cant remember what he was in but the force from the speed blinded him temporarily and had all of those side effects on his body. I thought 170 mph on my gixxer was fast but I gotta catch up. Lol.
Rail track is 10 miles long. 4 stages of a combination of rockets. The sled obtained a velocity of 9,465 feet per second or 6,453 miles per hour, delivering a 192-lb. payload into a target. They tented the whole 10 mile track and filled it with Helium so the track wouldn't catch on fire and reduce friction. Sick.
This wasnt a rocket sled fellas, nor was it Chuck Norris' attempt at parking.
See....Chuck and the ol' missus wanted to have another baby. Last time they tried, she wound up with 7300 stitches from her breast plate down her body, up to her shoulder blades. They took better precautions this time....she was positioned at the end of that course. What you see....well,...I guess I inferred enough.
One more time people. For the one's without a pocket calculator. 6,453 mph = 1.79 miles per second or 9465 feet per second. A 55 grain 5.56 m-193 nato bullet fired from a standard M-16a1 rifle has a muzzle velocity of 3,250 feet per second. Now for the people who think this rocket sled was going almost 3 times the speed of a 5.56 nato bullet GET REAL. Can this rocket reach 6,453 mph? Maybe in free flight at high altitude, but no way on a sled.
To all the smartarses who think the top speed is less than 6000 mph. I watched a documentary about Sandia labs and the Holloman test track.and you just made fools of yourselves in front of thousands of people.
This is Sandia laborotories, who fire rocket sleds up to silly speeds to test the casings for nuclear warhead re-entry vehicles. The last bit of the track is surrounded by a polythene tunnul filled with Helium. Because it is much less dense than air it gives less resistance to the speeding sled.
The land speed record for a rocket sled as follows:
"Unmanned. It was the final stage of a four-stage sled train, which included the sled, a Super Roadrunner rocket motor, and a 192-pound payload on top. The sled train delivered payload into a target at a velocity of 9465 feet per second, or 6453 mph (2885 m/s), or Mach 8.5."
The sleds are near frictionless by tracks because I believe they run on magnetic levitation tracks.
@owensmouth funny that mythbusters used this same sled, with...oh yes a 3 stage rocket, and yes it traveled just below 650 mph, are you really that gullible to believe that was over 6,000 mph, LOL you wouldnt have even seen this if it was over 6,000 mph. The supersonic Concorde jet only does 1,450 mph, but this is 6,400 mph....lol ok
@davidhall8621 Seriously. This is 6,000+ mph (there was a doc) .Mythbusters are not military scientists. I seen that episode too and this is at least 10x faster than that.
@owensmouth not even close to 6,453 mph thats mach 8.9 at sea level or 9,464 feet per second or about 3 times the speed of a m-16 bullet / oh it a 3 stage rocket I wouldn't care if its a 200 stage rocket powered by pixie dust the sled in the video at best is traveling at maybe 500-600 mph / we need to get our info correct you need to join the real world.
@talon55130 Unmanned. It was the final stage of a four-stage sled train, which included the sled, a Super Roadrunner rocket motor, and a 192-pound payload on top. The sled train delivered payload into a target at a velocity of 9465 feet per second, or 6453 mph (2885 m/s), or Mach 8.5.
@bruceweeee I'm ignorant because I'm American. well guess what dipshit no matter what speed it goes it was built by us dipshit Americans. The best you supposedly 3rd world numbnuts can come up with is a water ballon rocket and you had to steal the technology from us.
@bruceweeee I don't all the oil in the southern half of the united stated is from the gulf of mexico. Also Yankees are from New York they don't say yeehaa.
@talon55130 This is another sled. There have been sleds (manned and unmanned) that did 600+, for this one you have to add a zero (0) to that number. There was a doc on it.
I have seen a jet car do 400 MPH while standing close. They are far away here and the lights (final stage) streak. The camera can barely keep up on this one. By the video I can tell its 15x faster than the jet car.
@davidhall8621 You are thinking of the world record manned rocket sled. There is also one (unmanned) on Mythbusters that did 600+ also.
This is unmanned (hence the explosion) and really does 6,000+ Mph. Read my other comment. They are watching this from far off. The final stage is the fast one hence the streaking lights in the background. It has 200,000 Hp.
@davidhall8621 That was a hell of a lot faster than 650 MPH. 650 MPH isn't even the speed of sound and actually looks pretty slow from any appreciable distance.
ok, for one this wasnt a land speed record, the record is 763.053 mph set by andy green in october of 1997, and still holds the record to this very day. Second this is no where NEAR over 6,000 mph. This is a rocket sled, mythbusters used this, and YES it is very fast, but no where near 6,000 + mph.
@davidhall8621 The land speed record you're speaking of was for a manned vehicle. This is an unmanned vehicle, so this is a different land speed record entirely.
It wasn't Chuck Norris, it was his infant son. He was deemed too dangerous to become and adult and fight his father, for fear that the power of the Norris genes would collide causing total universal meltdown. So they put him in this rocket sled to get rid of him. The bang at the end was the sound of him punching his way out of the sled. To be continued....
@GetOutMyBidness although on second thought chuck norris sperm (he only makes one at a time but its as ig as a fist and can speak) would corrode through any vagina....
he probably plucks a single hair from his beard and rubs gently, then a child is instantly born...... full grown
@kayoss420 You don't see the light streaks in the background? This thing has 200,000+ Horsepower and is ROCKET powered (not jet).
I went to an airshow with a jet car that did 0-400 MPH in 8.3 seconds (I was close) and by the way the video looks this has to be 6,000+ MPH
They are probably observing this at a great distance of a couple of miles at least and STILL have trouble keeping up in the final stage. Besides there was a documentary about it.
@kayoss420 The record is real and the video near as I can tell is real. If you look, you will notice that the cameraman is very far away from the vehicle, easily over a mile away, yet it goes off camera almost instantly.
the intresting thing about this video is. i guess by now they have created a very very fast plane now using a engine that uses exploding parts to create massive amounts of power to force a plane to go faster than a few thousend miles a hour "cough"
Don't even think that a human could survive anything near this. There is no suit that can stop your skull from imploding at speeds 6 times faster than a bullet in 5 seconds. "oh hur hur hur well apollo went 17000 mph" no you need to retake your physics, your teacher was on LSD. You could be going 100000 mph and it would feel normal. Oh btw smashing into a fucking bomb shelter doesn't help either.
So... I can see its fast lol but wtf happened?!?! did it like hit a 500ft thick concrete wall and desintigrate or what? haha its like whissssshhhhhh BOOM Silent......... haha
yeah i guess that was the plan. what's it gonna do, fly forever? lol. it's an unmanned vehical, if anyone was in it, they would die from the gravitational force and whatnot
the test track is around 10 miles long so if it took around 5 seconds thats an average speed of 7200 mph but you have the acceleration time to consider
To EJ25RUN: A human COULD survive those kind of G forces IF they had the kind of G-Suit that astronauts use ( Apollo rockets went to 17,000mph+ remember)
To 0112337: If this is THE rocket sled I think it is, the US Armed Forces use it to test ejector seats at high speed. IE Mach 8.67 as shown here and possibly above that.
And to mrdagater: What's your maths homework dude?
Just because the Apollo astronauts were going faster, doesn't mean they were experiencing the same acceleration. 17,000 MPH to 0 MPH in 4 MINUTES (during re-entry) is MUCH LESS G forces than 0 to 7000 MPH in 5 seconds.
This thing has recorded 157g's and John Stapp 40-45g's, left him bleeding from the eyes and blind for about 10 min's. Now consider tripling that figure.
this is an unmanned land speed record, which means it does not deny the manned speed record which still belongs to thrust ssc...for at least another year :)
This record don't count, purely cos theres no driver... You need a driver. Maybe they should have read the rule book before claiming to have the land speed record.
I don't this can be an official record as in was done at night when there is nothing to distinguish how fast it is going.
To be clear 6,453mph is Mach 8.662 which means that at that speed, this thing would do a meaured mile (the official measurement for ALL speed records) in 0.55 seconds.
And it didn't do that.
IF that was a mile it took 7 seconds to do it from standing start.
At a constant speed 7 seconds would make it 514.286mph.
From a standing start I'd guess between 600-800mph tops.
YOu are right but the track was over 20 miles long i believe but i could be wrong but this shot was done at night but they did it several times over. That is how they say it is the world land speed record.
The Space Shuttle burned 30% of its fuel reaching a velocity of Mach 1.
I don't understand why these types of rail technology (or Maglev) isn't being used to accelerate payloads to those speeds before throwing them off and allowing the rockets to kick in. Its a pretty high capitol investment but its estimated that you can have a payload increase of 80% just by getting a rocket to 0.8 Mach initially.
MegaParker555 4 months ago
Epic and agree below
SuperBlaze500 4 months ago
Stupid stupid people, read this and thumbs up to stop the rant. The record the Thrust SSC set was for the fastest MANNED VEHICLE by breaking the speed of sound. THIS is attached to a rail underneath and powered by rockets. It's the fastest UNMANNED ROCKET SLED. The record John Stapp set was for the fastest MANNED ROCKET SLED. No human could possibly survive the speeds shown on this video. P.S: The Thrust SSC is faster than John Stapp's rocket sled, convinced now?
VrOOm1337 5 months ago
@VrOOm1337 really the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at more then 18000 miles an hour the escape veloscity to leave the earths atmosphere is 25000 thousand mph
justwired 3 months ago
The only accurate comment on this entire thread was the first one.. Woah.. the rest of you need to stfu. The brits are pissed we made andy ( is he a god btw the brits think so) look slow. This is a land speed record for unmanned vehicles. Stop being stupid. Andy broke the sound barrier proven fact. Stfu all of you this is real and after reading almost a 1000 comments of this shit, you all need a chill pill.
Scootermagoo 6 months ago
looks to me like it hit 88 mph
hoberator 6 months ago
@hoberator Do you have any Idea how large the sled is, or how far the camera was from the sled?
dalejrfan800 6 months ago
@dalejrfan800 All I can tell is that it looks heavy, doc.
hoberator 6 months ago
@hoberator Well, it's not that hard to look up pictures of the sleds for size comparison.
dalejrfan800 6 months ago
Space museum in Alamogordo is a cool place.
bigroy38 7 months ago
SO many picky people on these comments. All of you complain to each other on how fast this rocket thing goes when to be honest I just like to watch it. If someone just stood next to me and told me how fast it was going I'll just nod along and not give a crap.
djpiemon 7 months ago
This is so much bullshit
Nicholasdude187 7 months ago
lol u get to go ur dream speed then blow up after 5 seconds
Enoch161 7 months ago
did he just time warp??...lol
proctortoad 8 months ago
@owensmouth Has there been any faster since this?
Ecurrie84 9 months ago
That thing was hauling ass.
MrBrian0081 9 months ago
What would happen to someone if they were tied to the front of that sled?
Would the G's kill them?
gamblemadman 9 months ago
@gamblemadman Of course.
VrOOm1337 9 months ago
@gamblemadman Type in Rocket Sled land speed record (1:17) and you'll see a man riding one travelling at 6.400mph!
Ecurrie84 9 months ago
@Ecurrie84 Thanks.
gamblemadman 9 months ago
@Ecurrie84 the fastest manned sled was 632 mph, the gs, at 6400 would turn a person in pudding
mageac 7 months ago
@mageac If you type in what I said above you will see a man travelling on one at the same speed as this, honest check it out. The blood in his face comes to the surface, you see him sitting there afterwards aswel in the hospital and he's ok! He lived to tell the tale at least.
Ecurrie84 7 months ago
@Ecurrie84 his name is john stapp, he did just a hair under 632
the video says its 6500 mph, its not
mageac 7 months ago 3
@mageac Thanks for clarifying it for me. I should have known really because the video here we are commenting on shows a sled doing warp speed and the one with John Stapp is going fast but there obviously not doing nowhere near the same speeds. I just watched both again. Sorry for wasting your time. ;)
Ecurrie84 7 months ago
@Ecurrie84 no prob, lol , not everything on youtube is fact lol
mageac 7 months ago
@gamblemadman trust me, he'd be dead by the time the rocket barely got to the second stage, and would be a huge slushpuppy when it would hit the third stage :)
weetnietgeen 8 months ago
lol hardcore sledding. want!
Thulldorn 9 months ago
it's really kind of hard to believe that this thing went at 10 times the speed of a bullet.... O_O
JerryFeng41 10 months ago
this is very impressive, what if the track went across the continental US
SlayerGod999 11 months ago
@SlayerGod999 the continental US the probably (not completely sure) around 5000km across, it would take half an hour assuming this thing traveled at this speed through the whole trip. that would be an EPIC WIN
JerryFeng41 10 months ago
parking always was one of chuck norris's weaknesses.
jm2916 11 months ago 7
I know these things are capable of doing several thousand mph, but is this really the record run? I mean, I know it's really flat out there, but it doesn't look like the beginning of the track is 10 miles away from the camera (I assume the camera is sitting at the end of the track. After all, we hear the impact before we ever hear the rocket.) The rocket at launch looks alot closer than 10 miles.
AgentBeagle 1 year ago
@AgentBeagle I don't know the distance between the track and the camera, but the entire length of the track nearly 10 miles (50,788 ft). And this time, however, actually only 17,014 ft. run by the sleds. See ｉｍｐａｃｔｌａｂ．ｎｅｔ／２００６／０１／１５／ｔｈｅ－ｆａｓｔｅｓｔ－ｒｏｃｋｅｔ－ｓｌｅｄ－ｏｎ－ｅａｒｔｈ／ (Sorry for being full-sized to avoid an error)
ofwend2823j 11 months ago
@AgentBeagle The camera was placed one mile away from the end of the track. The starting place may not appear to be that far away, but it is. Don't forget that the sled was going fast enough to cover that distance in only a few seconds.
Pilot853 10 months ago
All fun and games....till they made it stop!! :)
XRayCam 1 year ago
fake
fermos11111 1 year ago
@fermos11111 - *Facepalm*
FormulaOneFan4Eva 1 year ago
@FormulaOneFan4Eva LOL
fermos11111 1 year ago
The sled was propelled by a four-stage sled train. A Super Roadrunner (SRR) rocket motor, developed specifically for the HUP program, powered each of the last two stages.
2012charleston 1 year ago
At peak velocity, that thing was going 9500 feet a second
Pilot853 1 year ago
put a seat on it, make a sledge that aims 40degrees uprange, and buy a cake and party for inventing the cheapest way for commercial space weightlessness.
much more efficient then Spaceship two etc.
And im serious.
You only need to survive 50-100GS for 6 seconds and your done.
but when it comes to being serious i have only one thing to say.
Is this where my tax money goes to,
fuck government, fuck agencies, and fuck america.
Armigo91 1 year ago
@Armigo91 - I doubt you contribute very many tax dollars to projects like this because you likely cannot get and keep a good paying job. Likely, people with jobs, like myself, are supporting you. I suspect you flunked out of school and live off of the government as it is.
You can save all that money and move to a country that will have you. Or, you can vote for Obama again, he will give you a free place to live, feed you, and give you free healthcare.
Good luck with that.
"And im serious"
GotTheTeeShirt1 1 year ago
And it's a 4 stage rocket.
buffhomer 1 year ago
my bike is faster
Mrfunkymonkey109 1 year ago
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Mrfunkymonkey109 1 year ago
HOLY SHIT!
nomad18psycho 1 year ago
I wonder who they plan on sending somewhere at 6,000+mph. You know they are planning something.
neonmike1000 1 year ago
For what possible reason would they go to all the trouble, to see if a rocket can go that fast? Of coarse it can. This can't be a rocket test but a sled test. Supposedly from the crap I've been hearing a 10 mile track tented and filled with helium. WHY. So the US can lead the world in sled technology? Or test warheads on concrete? Again WHY? For those who wish to reply DON'T I will delete you on the spot. I personally don't give a shit about your opinions on shit you don't know anything about.
talon55130 1 year ago
This is a response for zapphire1 and shiftysmooth "Were you there? Were either one of you jack asses part of the research teams? Do you have the slightest inkling of what the hell your talking about? Or are both of you just fucking morons who believe anything your told." Ooh it went warp nine because I saw it on a TV show. It was a magnetically elevated sled sliding on a film of helium gas and propelled by pixie dust because I read it somewhere. I believe all this shit because I was told to.
talon55130 1 year ago
@talon55130 Wow man, for being decent at math you fight logid tooth and nail. Once you actually go to (publically allowed viewings similar to this), you'd honestly submit and say logic is right.
Truely man you are dumb for thinking those who saw personally, or design this technology are wrong.
So put your so-called calculator away and go see a public held viewing, it will change your life!
TheUniversalid 1 year ago
To all the nonbelievers, it is true. I just watched this same footage on Modern Marvels, this is some kind of military testing and it is Mach 8.6 Over eight and a half times the speed of sound. Damn!
neonmike1000 1 year ago 2
@neonmike1000 I watched it too Mike... was that insane or what ? What was it, 150 times the force of gravity would be exerted on a human if he had been strapped to this ? 200lb man = 30,000 lbs of force... Did you also catch the spot on the Shanghai Maglev Train ? 270 mph ! I wanna ride that, seriously.
lonestarduffer 1 year ago
@lonestarduffer Yeah I saw the part with the train. Did you see the guy who was doing one of the tests I cant remember what he was in but the force from the speed blinded him temporarily and had all of those side effects on his body. I thought 170 mph on my gixxer was fast but I gotta catch up. Lol.
neonmike1000 1 year ago
Rail track is 10 miles long. 4 stages of a combination of rockets. The sled obtained a velocity of 9,465 feet per second or 6,453 miles per hour, delivering a 192-lb. payload into a target. They tented the whole 10 mile track and filled it with Helium so the track wouldn't catch on fire and reduce friction. Sick.
Funny how the sound has to catch up to the sled.
finscreenname 1 year ago
oh yea thats easaly over 6000
720moorhsum 1 year ago
This wasnt a rocket sled fellas, nor was it Chuck Norris' attempt at parking.
See....Chuck and the ol' missus wanted to have another baby. Last time they tried, she wound up with 7300 stitches from her breast plate down her body, up to her shoulder blades. They took better precautions this time....she was positioned at the end of that course. What you see....well,...I guess I inferred enough.
JimmyZSweet 1 year ago
One more time people. For the one's without a pocket calculator. 6,453 mph = 1.79 miles per second or 9465 feet per second. A 55 grain 5.56 m-193 nato bullet fired from a standard M-16a1 rifle has a muzzle velocity of 3,250 feet per second. Now for the people who think this rocket sled was going almost 3 times the speed of a 5.56 nato bullet GET REAL. Can this rocket reach 6,453 mph? Maybe in free flight at high altitude, but no way on a sled.
talon55130 1 year ago
@talon55130 Really good argument.LOL
t5239857289578947594 1 year ago
@talon55130 Just saw it on Modern Marvels, same video. You my friend are an idiot.
zapphire1 1 year ago
@talon55130 Get out your calculator because that was a 10 mile long track in just under 5 seconds
ShiftySmooth 1 year ago
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ShiftySmooth 1 year ago
Guyz, that is true!!
masterco93 1 year ago
To all the smartarses who think the top speed is less than 6000 mph. I watched a documentary about Sandia labs and the Holloman test track.and you just made fools of yourselves in front of thousands of people.
SvenTviking 1 year ago
This is Sandia laborotories, who fire rocket sleds up to silly speeds to test the casings for nuclear warhead re-entry vehicles. The last bit of the track is surrounded by a polythene tunnul filled with Helium. Because it is much less dense than air it gives less resistance to the speeding sled.
SvenTviking 1 year ago
Back to the future!
UCantLiveForever 1 year ago
well it may be Kph and it certainly is not a sustained speed, if it did indeed reach such speeds.
shariotoflove 1 year ago
I like reading the comments made by those ignorant fools..........
This is real!
botakheadmacrocks 1 year ago
The land speed record for a rocket sled as follows:
"Unmanned. It was the final stage of a four-stage sled train, which included the sled, a Super Roadrunner rocket motor, and a 192-pound payload on top. The sled train delivered payload into a target at a velocity of 9465 feet per second, or 6453 mph (2885 m/s), or Mach 8.5."
The sleds are near frictionless by tracks because I believe they run on magnetic levitation tracks.
john25992 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
and also the rocketsled only travels right at 650mph...
davidhall8621 1 year ago
@davidhall8621
Get your information correct before you make yourself look foolish.
This is a three stage rocket sled and yes it goes over 6,000 mph.
The record you so foolishly refer to is the manned land speed record.
owensmouth 1 year ago 15
@owensmouth funny that mythbusters used this same sled, with...oh yes a 3 stage rocket, and yes it traveled just below 650 mph, are you really that gullible to believe that was over 6,000 mph, LOL you wouldnt have even seen this if it was over 6,000 mph. The supersonic Concorde jet only does 1,450 mph, but this is 6,400 mph....lol ok
davidhall8621 1 year ago
@davidhall8621 Seriously. This is 6,000+ mph (there was a doc) .Mythbusters are not military scientists. I seen that episode too and this is at least 10x faster than that.
Besides, I stayed at a Motel 6.
bossoholic 1 year ago
@owensmouth not even close to 6,453 mph thats mach 8.9 at sea level or 9,464 feet per second or about 3 times the speed of a m-16 bullet / oh it a 3 stage rocket I wouldn't care if its a 200 stage rocket powered by pixie dust the sled in the video at best is traveling at maybe 500-600 mph / we need to get our info correct you need to join the real world.
talon55130 1 year ago
@talon55130 Unmanned. It was the final stage of a four-stage sled train, which included the sled, a Super Roadrunner rocket motor, and a 192-pound payload on top. The sled train delivered payload into a target at a velocity of 9465 feet per second, or 6453 mph (2885 m/s), or Mach 8.5.
It is real.
john25992 1 year ago
@talon55130 uhhhh dipshit, just google it and you will see how utterly ignorant your are.....ooops you're american, that explains it.
bruceweeee 1 year ago
@bruceweeee I'm ignorant because I'm American. well guess what dipshit no matter what speed it goes it was built by us dipshit Americans. The best you supposedly 3rd world numbnuts can come up with is a water ballon rocket and you had to steal the technology from us.
talon55130 1 year ago
@talon55130 lol keep buying oil from us yankee loser! yeeeeehaaaaaa!
bruceweeee 1 year ago
@bruceweeee i dont all the oil in the southern region of the united states is from the gulf of mexico
fatsanta05 1 year ago
@bruceweeee I don't all the oil in the southern half of the united stated is from the gulf of mexico. Also Yankees are from New York they don't say yeehaa.
fatsanta05 1 year ago
@bruceweeee hey dipshit this is american technology
fatsanta05 1 year ago
@talon55130 This is another sled. There have been sleds (manned and unmanned) that did 600+, for this one you have to add a zero (0) to that number. There was a doc on it.
I have seen a jet car do 400 MPH while standing close. They are far away here and the lights (final stage) streak. The camera can barely keep up on this one. By the video I can tell its 15x faster than the jet car.
bossoholic 1 year ago
@owensmouth and that is 714 mph
Narutofan1000k 8 months ago
@davidhall8621 You are thinking of the world record manned rocket sled. There is also one (unmanned) on Mythbusters that did 600+ also.
This is unmanned (hence the explosion) and really does 6,000+ Mph. Read my other comment. They are watching this from far off. The final stage is the fast one hence the streaking lights in the background. It has 200,000 Hp.
bossoholic 1 year ago
@davidhall8621 Except this one. Look it up (unmanned record). Not the Mythbusters one.
bossoholic 1 year ago
@davidhall8621 That was a hell of a lot faster than 650 MPH. 650 MPH isn't even the speed of sound and actually looks pretty slow from any appreciable distance.
nexus1g 9 months ago
ok, for one this wasnt a land speed record, the record is 763.053 mph set by andy green in october of 1997, and still holds the record to this very day. Second this is no where NEAR over 6,000 mph. This is a rocket sled, mythbusters used this, and YES it is very fast, but no where near 6,000 + mph.
davidhall8621 1 year ago
@davidhall8621 The land speed record you're speaking of was for a manned vehicle. This is an unmanned vehicle, so this is a different land speed record entirely.
Flaminglog 1 year ago
@davidhall8621 Blah
bossoholic 1 year ago
@bossoholic lol ya know I was gonna make another point to argue back or what ever. But the Hotel 6 just got me lol.....Touche
davidhall8621 1 year ago
wtf is with all these Chuck Norris jokes?
cryptedvick 1 year ago
Does it come with Airbags ABS?
redrocker76 1 year ago
Dear God, when I'm dying, please let it be sitting on this thing that killed me.
TechnologyR0xx0rz 1 year ago
It wasn't Chuck Norris, it was his infant son. He was deemed too dangerous to become and adult and fight his father, for fear that the power of the Norris genes would collide causing total universal meltdown. So they put him in this rocket sled to get rid of him. The bang at the end was the sound of him punching his way out of the sled. To be continued....
GetOutMyBidness 1 year ago
@GetOutMyBidness lol u should write a book that was awesome
burnleyboy666 1 year ago
@GetOutMyBidness although on second thought chuck norris sperm (he only makes one at a time but its as ig as a fist and can speak) would corrode through any vagina....
he probably plucks a single hair from his beard and rubs gently, then a child is instantly born...... full grown
burnleyboy666 1 year ago
Show us the radar.
TheSonicGod 1 year ago
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that was no where close to 6,000mph idiots. A couple hundred at best.
kayoss420 1 year ago
@kayoss420 then how do you explain it going faster than light then teleportin through time and space, reaching the beggining of time?
abfun123 1 year ago
@kayoss420
Im guessing your IQ is no higher than 90.
owensmouth 1 year ago 32
@owensmouth he just have a Q whitout I...
dany080 1 year ago
@kayoss420 it was 6000mph. I know that, cos I was riding beside it on my mountain bike and my speedometer said 6000.
MrButinen 1 year ago
@kayoss420 if you didnt notice he called you mentally handicapped
fatsanta05 1 year ago
@kayoss420 You don't see the light streaks in the background? This thing has 200,000+ Horsepower and is ROCKET powered (not jet).
I went to an airshow with a jet car that did 0-400 MPH in 8.3 seconds (I was close) and by the way the video looks this has to be 6,000+ MPH
They are probably observing this at a great distance of a couple of miles at least and STILL have trouble keeping up in the final stage. Besides there was a documentary about it.
bossoholic 1 year ago
@kayoss420 The record is real and the video near as I can tell is real. If you look, you will notice that the cameraman is very far away from the vehicle, easily over a mile away, yet it goes off camera almost instantly.
OlCapitain 1 year ago
@kayoss420 Just saw this on Modern Marvels, same video, and it does indeed go over 6,400 mph... You my friend, are an idiot.
zapphire1 1 year ago
@zapphire1 lol, just watched it on Modern Marvels as well, had to see it again
ShiftySmooth 1 year ago
@kayoss420 this track is over 3 miles. And it took what? 5 or 6 seconds? yeah, thats over 6000mph
avengedsvnfld1029 1 year ago
@kayoss420 That was 10 miles of track in that short amount of time.
oldsonk 1 year ago
@kayoss420
LOL...you're an idiot. It is a well-known test and yes, it did reach 6000 mph.
ophello 9 months ago
this must of sent a sonic boom louder than the space shuttle re entries.
ladiestreat27 1 year ago
Does anyone knows if Chuck Norris is ok after this trial?
MORO7359 1 year ago
@MORO7359 Yes, and his hair was still perfectly untouched.
wkLeoTrooper 1 year ago
at that rate of speed, you could go from california to new york in 30 minutes! amazing!!!
wiiman0001 1 year ago
@wiiman0001 less... the SR-71 did it in about an hour from coast to coast at Mach 3 (2100mph).
This device could do it in probably 15 minutes then.
cptstubing 1 year ago
hmmm chuck norris i guess isnt very good at parallel parking...
rockonmyfriend 1 year ago 3
Unmanned.
8Sniper8 1 year ago
the intresting thing about this video is. i guess by now they have created a very very fast plane now using a engine that uses exploding parts to create massive amounts of power to force a plane to go faster than a few thousend miles a hour "cough"
floorspeed 1 year ago
it would probably hurt if you got hit with that
froogleman189 1 year ago
@froogleman189 Wouldn't hurt at all, you'd be dead instantly :)
sidewinder4489 1 year ago
@sidewinder4489 well duh. im not retarded. it was a joke
froogleman189 1 year ago
chuck norris is over rated.
he wouldnt stand a chance against a cricket.
crazyperson141 1 year ago
@crazyperson141 you are fired
rockonmyfriend 1 year ago
owensmouth,
have you any more footage like this, this is great to watch.
It was great to watch NASA's X-43 going mach 10 through the air but to see something do it on land is something else. Great footage. 5stars.
Ecurrie84 1 year ago
Watched the whole thing on Discovery...
This was a test to see with high frame cams how some missiles react when hitting the target.
Mag-lev track with train of rockets that split up to increase the speed. 20 concrete wall parts in the end.
Darkahead 1 year ago 2
Oh, forgot to say, they did it in a helium tunnel to lower the friction of air.
Darkahead 1 year ago
thats what the bang was at the end. Chuck Norris gave it the old round house and BOOOOOM!!!!
ausdude31 1 year ago
fake
h0nkyk0ng 1 year ago
wee
peterkframe 1 year ago
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YOU THINK THATS FAST..MY EX WIFE LETS TOWN FASTER THAN THAT AFTER EMPTYING MY BANK ACCOUNT..the dirty bitch..Damn she had some good pussy tho
meatpole55 2 years ago
@meatpole55 hahaha
dat3rdsideboy386 1 year ago
some guy was driving this sled and he survived
kobasica 2 years ago
Parking was always chuck norris's one weakness.
ho33es 2 years ago 39
@ho33es
LIES chick norris has no weekness, he simply decided not to stop here, possibly because he really had to go
patriots43v3r 1 year ago
its Chuck and weakness. And i agree with you.
ho33es 1 year ago
oops, double typo fail
patriots43v3r 1 year ago
@ho33es lol
jorjor35 1 year ago
@ho33es Nonsense, Chuck parks telepathically while he walks away...
gpgab971 1 year ago
@ho33es, no no, it is in fact parking which is weak in the presence of Chuck Norris.
shariotoflove 1 year ago
@kobasica
The rocket motors in this sled were recorded achieving 157g's. they burned 1100lb's of fuel in 1.4sec's. I doubt any human could survive that.
You may be refering to Col john Stapp. He achieved 40-45g's.
blyndrotor 1 year ago
Don't even think that a human could survive anything near this. There is no suit that can stop your skull from imploding at speeds 6 times faster than a bullet in 5 seconds. "oh hur hur hur well apollo went 17000 mph" no you need to retake your physics, your teacher was on LSD. You could be going 100000 mph and it would feel normal. Oh btw smashing into a fucking bomb shelter doesn't help either.
GOgrnGO 2 years ago 2
GG motherfcuker
cloudabove 2 years ago
So... I can see its fast lol but wtf happened?!?! did it like hit a 500ft thick concrete wall and desintigrate or what? haha its like whissssshhhhhh BOOM Silent......... haha
krazycardude 2 years ago 13
yeah i guess that was the plan. what's it gonna do, fly forever? lol. it's an unmanned vehical, if anyone was in it, they would die from the gravitational force and whatnot
artem1002 2 years ago
@krazycardude Yeah, they were conducting an impact experiment...
meadorsp 1 year ago
@krazycardude actually it stopped just before the track ended (surprisingly lol) from 6453 mph to 0 mph in mere seconds
vpiedra1 1 year ago
wtf
papsiur 2 years ago 2
And then they Died
Ruldolphmaker 2 years ago
Seriously this is the crappiest video ever. You can't tell what the hell is going on
quisp2112 2 years ago
get a better computer
artem1002 2 years ago 4
Correction the Whole track is almost 10 miles long, what u see in the video is only 17,530 Feet of the Track
DaKINE916 2 years ago
The track is 17,530 feet long
DaKINE916 2 years ago
It would be nice to see this in some light.
Lamb00FGoD 2 years ago
you must be retarded if you think this isn't real. seriously.
guidoanchovie 2 years ago 4
Holy cow it went back to the future I knew Marty mcfly couldn't resist
soulles2002 2 years ago
bullshit
warlockboyburns 2 years ago
the test track is around 10 miles long so if it took around 5 seconds thats an average speed of 7200 mph but you have the acceleration time to consider
ttshay 2 years ago
no way track is 10 miles long if any thing 5 miles
skateboy159 2 years ago
OK...
To EJ25RUN: A human COULD survive those kind of G forces IF they had the kind of G-Suit that astronauts use ( Apollo rockets went to 17,000mph+ remember)
To 0112337: If this is THE rocket sled I think it is, the US Armed Forces use it to test ejector seats at high speed. IE Mach 8.67 as shown here and possibly above that.
And to mrdagater: What's your maths homework dude?
DreadnoughtMetal2006 2 years ago
Just because the Apollo astronauts were going faster, doesn't mean they were experiencing the same acceleration. 17,000 MPH to 0 MPH in 4 MINUTES (during re-entry) is MUCH LESS G forces than 0 to 7000 MPH in 5 seconds.
check86 2 years ago 3
Yeah, that is true but, that said - I don't see anyone sitting on this thing...
Who would actually WANT to experience the G forces on that thing.
DreadnoughtMetal2006 2 years ago
Actually, no they couldn't. Not even close.
EJ25RUN 2 years ago
@DreadnoughtMetal2006
This thing has recorded 157g's and John Stapp 40-45g's, left him bleeding from the eyes and blind for about 10 min's. Now consider tripling that figure.
blyndrotor 1 year ago
6,453 mph? That's almost mach 9. What is this a missile?
0112337 2 years ago
Why didn't they do it during daylight?
loswaldo666 2 years ago 4
terrorists were watching.
ho33es 2 years ago
What are they going to do with this I ask?
Launch them at the US?
Maskakoopa 1 year ago
@Maskakoopa
Well...they're not going to do anything. It was destroyed at the end of the line, right?
Why would the US launch its own missiles at itself?
ho33es 1 year ago
no, that's our new schoolbus
Smonjirez 1 year ago
yep, they're going to build a really long rail pointed at different buildings.
And knowing our government they'll never know.
cyberhendrix 1 year ago
LOL
I can do that on my Huffy at home
I PWN YOU NOOBS
: [)
esmitty1995 2 years ago
It wouldn't matter if the track was a thousand miles long the record only counts over a measured mile in both directions within an hour.
See Stan Barrett and the Budweiser Rocket - the world's fastest Trike :D Let's give Stan props for that.
DreadnoughtMetal2006 2 years ago
this is an unmanned land speed record, which means it does not deny the manned speed record which still belongs to thrust ssc...for at least another year :)
ho33es 2 years ago
This record don't count, purely cos theres no driver... You need a driver. Maybe they should have read the rule book before claiming to have the land speed record.
THEganjamatt 2 years ago
Because a human could survive that acceleration? Get real.
EJ25RUN 2 years ago
it was a unmaned record
buchajduk 2 years ago
I don't this can be an official record as in was done at night when there is nothing to distinguish how fast it is going.
To be clear 6,453mph is Mach 8.662 which means that at that speed, this thing would do a meaured mile (the official measurement for ALL speed records) in 0.55 seconds.
And it didn't do that.
IF that was a mile it took 7 seconds to do it from standing start.
At a constant speed 7 seconds would make it 514.286mph.
From a standing start I'd guess between 600-800mph tops.
DreadnoughtMetal2006 2 years ago
YOu are right but the track was over 20 miles long i believe but i could be wrong but this shot was done at night but they did it several times over. That is how they say it is the world land speed record.
Narutofan1000k 2 years ago
actually the full track is 16 miles long and that was the full track you saw.
imguitarguy183 2 years ago