Slow motion M1 Abrams shell

[TheMorbius]

Could be a Copperhead round

[aluilopiace]

Very nice.

[kosiak10851]

Thats a quick cameraman's job

[MegaBatavus]

The "dart"is a 1 part piece with solid fins, the projectile shown in this film has somesort of deployable fins which will deploy after leaving the barrel.

Seems to have even somesort of extra propulsion after the initial firing, as you can see half ways, there is some sort of small explosion.

Nice footage/

[MegaBatavus]

Right, APFSDS.

So where is the sabot?

An APFSDS is nothing more than a depleted-uranium or thungstencarbide dart, fitted into a sabot made out of 3 aluminium segments which will seperate themselves from the projectile when leaving the gun through air resistance.

[fmpanic000]

that camera man must run fast! is he a Kenyan?

[IvanCoDFan]

omg fake, camera cant follow the shell that is going 700 m/s

[uorder]

@IvanCoDFan if you have 100 000 000 $ you can create it easy. Do not forget that this is military force's camera.

[wowgamer14]

@IvanCoDFan Wow you are ignorant, and the rounds fired from an abrams is generally at 1,200+ m/s

[akisrapper]

what is that numbers on the shell?

[flyboy172r]

Damn those gyros are amazing!

[Koumrian]

OMG how did the camera follow the shell through the air!!! incredible!

[nair0bij0nes]

how did they follow that projectile with the camera ? that was great !

[GodHatesWar]

COOL!

[VitaminsAndPiss]

This is not a SABOT round, they look nothing like that at all, doesn't llok like a HEAT round either.

[Farisrulez]

wat was happening at 0:13??

[assaultman45]

I believe that is the sabot discarding.

[buggar4466]

it looks like some type of secondary discharge. You can see the main parts of the sabot coming off right out of thee barrel. Gonna have to google this one. :)

[VitaminsAndPiss]

Dude its not a SSABOT round, they look nothing like that, I don't know what it is either thou.

[NeoNSPETSNAZ]

@VitaminsAndPiss

It is actually a sabot round, it appears to be an APFSDS (Armor-piercing-fin-stabilized­-discarding-sabot) but there is no way of knowing since it does not show the impact.

[Dejawolfs]

@NeoNSPETSNAZ it is not a sabot round, it's a new experimental gun-launched missile..

[wowgamer14]

@NeoNSPETSNAZ Dont speak unless you know what you are talking about. That is not a sabot, like Dejawolfs said its and experimental missle.

[NeoNSPETSNAZ]

@wowgamer14

Thank you for stating the obvious. After I watched the video, I noticed there was no sabot. Calm down. I thought it was an APFSDS at first and simply stated that it looked like one.

[wowgamer14]

@NeoNSPETSNAZ I will not calm because ignorant people like you comment on shit they dont know about.

[logic2reason]

fun to watch, but worthless to create.... nothing like spending 10 grand to kill someone you dont know from 5 miles away! thumbs down military

[wowgamer14]

@logic2reason Why blowing things up before they know you are there is fun!

[staticslipk5]

0:03 the circle :D

[elijahxcoldiron]

its so pretty

[danmackellar]

Anyone know how they got the camera to take that shot? Moving & rotating high speed camera?

[alggu1]

i was just thinking the same... hmmm...

[wowgamer14]

@danmackellar prolly had it on a track, and had high FPS( frames per second) camera

[arzama1]

NICE! I love how there's a ring of smoke in the beginning!

[wearewanted2012]

thats tight

[hadricalifornia]

This is awesome ^^ I like the little circle in the beginning. Where did it end tho?

[slayerfan202766]

its launcher not luncher

[Hairysteed]

The title fails in multiple ways

[belfastboy16]

fuckin cool

[cobraopts7]

its a abrams gun not a rochet lancher

[Zwaffelen]

The video is from Vision Research and shot with a phantom 7.1 at 1000fps.

An interesting thing is that the uploader of this video horizontally flipped the image.

[erguwi]

Eggnog and some crackers

[Blackray14]

jep ... no ROCKET !!!

[ClassicArmyKid]

that wasnt a rocket that was an artillery shell

[moicced]

Ok , not a rocket but its not artillery either.

The rheinmetall L55 is a smootbore 120mm direct fire system for tanks such as M1A2's , Leopard 2 , Challenger , Jap Type-90...

[wowgamer14]

@moicced TheM1 serious tank uses a similar version on the L55 but is not, look up M256 smoothbore gun :D

[Reaver4k]

@wowgamer14 Its actly an american made rhinemetal L44. The leopard 2A4's and 2A5's mount it. The L55 is mounted on the leopard 2A6 and 2A7 and the Korean K2. The L/44 and L/55 can penetrate the armour of an M1, using a tungsten Sabot(DU would have better effect) the isreali merkava(which has a simular gun) allready uses a gun fire missle

[therealslimgamey]

er. that looks like a tank shell to me

[ponchoyo]

whats for lunch?

[DannyMcGurkMonifieth]

Thats just a test round

[Moggeth]

WTB Slow mo explosion :(

[angus1wit1a1tippmann]

It's a HE round for the guy below me.

[ChuckManiac]

It's a dummy round of an HE round. Just a test for ballistics and such.

[GMANinGA250]

off of the looks of it, i think that was a fin-stabilized HE tank round... then again, i know nothing about them... it just looks like either a sabot round or an HE round, and its fired from a tank.

[BigBananaMan]

That is freakin cool. I wonder how they got the camera to turn in perfect timing with the motion of the rocket. I'll bet it's going fast as all hell too.

[IsraeliXdude]

Firs the camera was far away and zoomed, that way the angle speed rate would be slow, and i think they preplanned the motion...

[ChuckManiac]

Yes, since the ballistics experts know how fast the round will travel, they calibrated the camera to follow the flight path. then the syncronized the camera and the round to work at the same time. Basically the high speed camera is following the flight path and not the round itself.

[IsraeliXdude]

You said it better than i did :)

[longbeachboy57]

Do you know what happens at 0.14? Something is blown off the round...

[ChuckManiac]

This is the protective band between the round and the casing. It's purpose is to held the round in place of the casing and this will be the main contact to the casing and the barrel. This is used for the smooth bore guns, so that the round will not get scratch on the way out which can comprimized it's aerodymic properties and therefore becoming inaccurate in it's flightpath. That's why you see the stabilizer fin as well. Smoothbore guns can achieve higher muzzule velocity compare to grooved.

[ChuckManiac]

This is similar to the discarding sabot used in kinetic penetrator rounds.

[meg2gas3]

danm man nice vid!

[Ekholdt27]

awsome

[mRsPOOKy728]

wow wow wow wow wow many wows excellent video well put nice film props beutiful great wonderful god dam this video was good but u guys shouldave filmed it hitting someting as well