C4 Explosives testing

[Mopja100]

in call of duty the c4 should have the effect of a nuke

[TheWettBandits]

@Mopja100 Ya know, I never really thought about it, but those C4 charges in CoD are HUGE compared to the explosion that they produce, lol.

[IngeniousOrange]

@TheWettBandits Just play BF3 for a C4 buff then.

[AlMchemy95]

Mido5213  Hahahhaha

[TEMPLE7D]

Ouch...

[mido5213]

OMG u know Call of Duty should increase the explosion of C4 and the power !!! in the game :D

[WonkyTonkBotty]

I've heard the shrapnel of C4 travels at around 18000 mph when exploding. Scary just thinking about it, no wonder it's so much stronger than many forms of explosives today, including some AT weapons.

[AustralianPyromaniac]

@WonkyTonkBotty Er, you mean the detonation velocity? Pure RDX would be stronger anyway...

[antimas1020]

my hole or yours

[percussionist624]

What is the energy density of C-4? In other words, how much energy is released per gram or per kilogram, etc.

[superjojo555]

OMG?!!??

[Meety2000]

Lets send a c4 in an envelope to justin beiber :D

[futurerev21]

OOO i got a letter.....WHAT THE FU *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

[158057]

i hope Justin Bieber was the one using this camera.

[Domas151]

WTF,WHERES MY ARM AT?

[GeneralChurch]

PWNED!

[love187punk]

i already know how to make some of these explosives, i just wanna see the damage , and it look so sweet

[Anglangel899]

red necks!

[NSProductions30]

@Anglangel899 rednecks? looks like police officers....

[Anglangel899]

@NSProductions30 a redneck police officer....duh

[NSProductions30]

@Anglangel899 i didn't know there could be a combination of both :S lol

[MrEriksas]

lame explosion

[omgI15m]

You know, its pretty scary how easy it is to make primary explosives. ex. Petrolium jelly 1 part, powdered potassium chlorate 9 parts, knead together with hands, serve with a blasting cap.

[randyclar747]

Jesus, that hissing sound was a piece of the cabinet spinning like a boomerang right at the camera operator. At that velocity, it could of easily cut his head off. I heard that sound before when trying to blow up a vcr and piece of tin went flying towards my neck, just like what happened here. I am all two familiar with that sound. I will never forget it.

[dasgemuse]

made me laugh

[tuffsolja]

bloody good shot on the cameraman.

[capndude999]

@ ajuicea. umm. illegal weapons dealers, ARMY maybe state trooper possibly even local law enforcement. unless your in any of thoseoccupations, you bought it illegally or you found it (which is still highly illegal)

[TheSottho]

LIKE A FUCKING BOOMERANG OF DEATH

[evulclown]

What happened to the cameraman?

[DG121480]

3 F-ING OUNCES!?!? WoW!

[Moviemillionare]

i dont know i think acetone peroxide of Armstrong mixture would have much bigger explosions

[IMAWESOMEANDUNOIT]

cameraman got OWNED. lol

fwipfwipfwipfwipfwip POW

[sxceyes]

fail

[Snowhobo8268]

i feel like I should say something along the line of chemical reactions...=(

[sparklerbombg]

the most powerful, non nuclear explosive is Astrolite-g.

[chemicaltemptation]

cl20 is a lot more powerful...

[0bsidianos]

and PETN is more powerful than that.

[chemicaltemptation]

@0bsidianos no its like that:

CL20>C4>PETN

but C4 and PETN are the best commercial high explosives, because CL20 is really expensive and difficult to produce...

[ehnogi]

@chemicaltemptation

actually PETN is much more powerful than C-4.

[donnelrj01]

@ehnogi PETN is not 'much more poweful' than C-4 buddy.

[ehnogi]

@donnelrj01

REF of C-4 : 1.34

REF of PETN : 1.66

By weight, yes it is.

[donnelrj01]

@ehnogi

Relative effectiveness factor is all very well, however in practice this doesn't particularly mean anything as the tests performed to determine the REF are difficult to draw any conclusive data from.

For example in the ballistic mortar test, C4 shows far higher results than PETN but lower in other tests. So the 'power' of something depends on it's application.

[ehnogi]

@donnelrj01

Actually REF is used to determine stand-off distance for overpressure and fragmentation. Sounds pretty conclusive to me.

PETN is usually in detonation cord and C-4 comes in sheets or blocks that are moldable. Yes, effectiveness does depend on how its used - but PETN is still more powerful than C-4 by weight..

[FOATE]

actually no, liquid oxygen combined with aluminium powder give off 4 times as much energy then TNT when it detonates, so about 3 to 3.5 times more than astrolite.. RDX alone is more powerful already then astrolite g

[TheRandomDestruction]

@sparklerbombg Why has this got thumbs down, i love astrolite

[love187punk]

my friends put some c4 explosives inside my ass with 10 kl but nothing happend to me

[Jemeela]

maybe he should be behind something. dumb ass

[28username28]

this is the easy less effective way to make c4 you mix vasalene spackel gun powder and alcohol or gasolineand mix it till it is like paste

[Treblaine]

0:27

Weird, that is exactly what it sounds like to be hit by a boomerang.

Except in my experience directly after that you hear a swarthy Australian accent yell:

"GOTCHA! Thought you could outrun me boomerang did ya? They all think that"

[RebeLfARmeR]

Oh noes! I hope the cameraguy was ok!

Heh, I like the pun about the $700bn bailout plan by the way! XD

[THEMASKEDBRIT]

What does the 'C' in 'C4' stand for lol?

Ive always wondered.

[EnGiNeEr689]

composition 4 its a type of explosive. they plasticize explosives so they can be used in a variety of ways.

[THEMASKEDBRIT]

Thanks for confirming that, I thought it meant that.

It is some meen play-dough lol

[EnGiNeEr689]

yeah it is not as bad as some would make you think. its a very stable explosive. some explosives are worse than c4. but c4 has many applications and is useful for those tasks

[Pyr0King]

Yeah in WWII soldiers would burn c4 to cook their meals. If it comes in contact with open flame, it just burns. It needs a massive electric current to set it off.

[Vermiliontea]

Actually, in WWII it would have been C3.

And it might be worthwhile to note that C3, C4, are quite toxic, like all military explosives. One shouldn't be too intimate with it.

And I don't think a massive electric charge will set it off. It can be set off under unfortunate circumstances by some other things, but basically it needs a primary explosive to set it off. Like all military explosives.

[drchen054]

But in vietnam it was rumored that some people who tried to stomp out the c4 flames got a big explosion due to heat(sensitizing rdx crystals) + shock

[chriswillb]

yes in vietnam soldiers used C4 on their camping stoves because it burnt slow and hot

[drchen054]

yeah I know.. I was just saying that there are stories that after they burned the c4 as fuel, some stomped(shock) out the fire and got an explosion.

[chriswillb]

hmm intresting.. i wonder how many people died?

[drchen054]

Probably 9

[ehnogi]

@chriswillb

No one.

Unshielded, you could stand 12 feet away from 3 ounces of C-4 without getting hurt at all (if there was no fragmentation).

Considering that the fragmentation splintered (it was wood), I'm sure nobody actually died.

[Vermiliontea]

"C" does NOT stand for "composition" . The full name should be "composition C4.

Explanation: In an analretentive naming effort, some RDX based explosives became:

composition A: pressable general purpose granular explosive.

composition B: castable explosive for artillery shells.

composition C: Plastic explosive.

The ABC explosives are all RDX based, but recepies have changed over time. Thus the final number. Current stand is A6, B4 and C4.

C4= 4th formula of RDX based plastic explosive.

[Finklestein13b]

Thats amazing how much 84 grams of that stuff can do

[tenaciousJk]

85 actually... :)

[Finklestein13b]

ya i rounded 28.34 down whateva its still amazing

[corester123]

@tenaciousJk 85.5g or 86g if you round to the nearest whole digit lol

[runyonave12]

u can get c4 from the black market

[AFilthyIbis]

Ajuicea makes a good point. Before you use C4 do u have to sign papers saying that you don't plan to detonate it under your feet?

[ajuicea]

where can i get C4? any ideas?

[tenaciousJk]

Um... hopefully this was a joke. C4 is a controlled explosive. Military/Government or Licensed demolition experts need only apply.

[SwimfanFR]

@tenaciousJk easy to homemade ;)

[zcg3]

@tenaciousJk ajuicea asks, "how do I apply to become a demo expert?"...he, he, he...

[dawson01912]

@tenaciousJk

A child can make RDX from household ingredients. However, a child cannot safely detonate it. 

[cyanide444]

You can make some. Only the binder and plasticizer are hard to synthesize, and I'm thinking you don't want the taggant. Plasticizer is a large chain molecule, explosive is RDX (nitrate hexamine). Hexamine is sold as fuel tablets, and you need white fuming nitric acid.

[BenHBX]

the binder/plasticizer are the easy part, do you have any idea how hard it is for a civilian to get >99% nitric acid? and if you can get the rdx, making C4 is a wast because pure rdx has like 15% more power and is MUCH more brisant

[cyanide444]

You can just distill 70% nitric acid. C-4 can be molded. i would prefer a Vaseline (generic for Petroleum jelly) or Paraffin/AN/RDX mixture more however.

[donnelrj01]

Not hard at all for anyone with any will.

[BenHBX]

I meant the stuff without disolved NOx, which is VERY expensive

[donnelrj01]

Nope, again, not for someone willing to put a bit of effort in.

[BenHBX]

true, if you can get a hold of a vacuum pump, than in theory you could make clean NA without paying humdreds or thousands of dollars, if you've got a set up for this I'd like to see a video of it, it would be pretty helplull in the trial&error process

[donnelrj01]

Indeed, I will post a vid this summer although a video already exists on here of that exact process.

[Reqrezentin]

@cyanide444

hahahhahahahhaah

[randyclar747]

@cyanide444 I saw the recipe for c-4. It looks complicated, and it is very hard to get the pure nitric acid needed. There is also no way to get the binder and plasticizer, these are not commonly available materials. Maybe the fuming nitric acid can be made?

[cyanide444]

@randyclar747 Fuming nitric acid is made by azeotropic vacuum distillation of normal 68% nitric acid. You need a vacuum distillation setup... It's very expensive and hazardous work. You could also purchase fuming nitric acid (WFNA) for around 400 bucks a liter. Hexamine is a lot cheaper, and should not be a problem. The binder and plasticizer can be made... They are mos likely also available online. If you want to make authentic plastic explosives, Semtex would be the easiest to make.

[randyclar747]

@cyanide444 I have some knowledge of explosives, that I use for recreation. I am interested in Semtex. The noxious fumes and difficulty of obtaining chemicals for c-4 is blocking me from trying it. So where do I start with Semtex?

[cyanide444]

@randyclar747 PETN makes up most of Semtex. You also need RDX, but I believe there are formulations that do not need RDX. Either way you only need a small amount (less than 100 ml of WFNA). PETN is made by nitrating pentaerythritol. One can buy kilograms of the stuff from China or purchase it from a supplier. One would also need nitric and sulfuric acid to nitrate the pentaerythritol as well as acetone and cold distilled water to extract it. Semtex also has some plasticizers and binders (look up

[Northhunt]

@cyanide444 binder can be extracted from Adhesive mass and the plasticizer dosent have to be some fancy shit.. actually here in Norway we use thick oil to plasticize even the expensive HMX..

[JJJPictures]

C4 is made from Potassium chlorate, you can extract it from some bleaches.

[cancheeb2ndaccount]

It is not retard, maybe the binder is made from kclo3

[anon32016]

Neither you fools! Stop reading the anarchist's failbook and learn something real! A chlorate salt as a binder... jesus. Not to mention as the explosive... Double jesus.

[derekleen]

No its not... just because the jolly roger said so, dont make it so. its made from RDX which is plasticized.

[randyclar747]

@JJJPictures This is not real C-4 what you are talking about, but instead, a homemade low explosive.

[stickyfreshpurp420]

@ajuicea yea yea. hit up your closest home depot or hardware store. find whatever brand of stump remover that they have (pure ammonium nitrate(KNO3)). mix that with diesel fuel. and now you've got industrial-grade high explosive. also known as ANFO

[linuxpowerification]

@stickyfreshpurp420

ammonium nitrate is NH4NO3,KNO3 is potassium nitrate.

[metalmanga]

@ajuicea you can make it yourself but im pretty sure you will blow yourself to pieces if your not experienced with explosives

[sindfetish]

@ajuicea Walmart carries it...it's in the toy section

[PumaM90]

@sindfetish yea and it is walmart so we're getting it at a really low price.

[JetJockey87]

@ajuicea

you cab make your own plastique, but you dont wanna go down that road... thats dark times my friend...

[fastzone24]

owned

[cylotec14]

lol, owned.

[finnyperson]

lol the ply wood 0wn3d him

[M4ultimateforce]

ouch

[videosolvi]

lol