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That wasn't the explosive head going off, it was the powder booster charge, which is why there was so much smoke. RPG rounds use different types of main propellant for their sustainer motors which is very commonly nitrocellulose based and doesn't produce smoke. That doesn't start kicking in until the round is thrown about 30+feet with enough force to initiate it. Either way, he was extremely lucky to have survived that. If it had been the HEAT rounds explosive shaped-charge head, he most certainly would have been killed.
Hello dr ranor i hear that in assuming a person isnt Wearing body armor in a lot of cases pistol or smaller caliber rifle rounds will do more damage than a then a large bore rifle like 30-06 because the smaller less energetic bullets will mushroom and shrapnelize where as the larger rife will for the most part go through and through without expanding that would make for an interesting video
Hello dr ranor i hear that in assuming a person isnt Wearing body armor in a lot of cases pistol or smaller caliber rifle rounds will do more damage than a then a large bore rifle like 30-06 because the smaller less energetic bullets will mushroom and shrapnelize where as the larger rife will for the most part go through and through without expanding that would make for an interesting video
BHS and Dr. Chris Raynor. You all do an amazing job and put out some of the best content! Keep up the great work! Much love from Pennsylvania. God bless 🙏❤
Even though the warhead was inert, the charge to fire the rocket is significant. Incredible that he survived, and the speed of his recovery is impressive
Former military. His survival is definitely outside the norm. From what I saw, there were a few things that contributed to this. First, the warhead was inert or did not detonate, meaning that the detonation was caused by the propellant for the warhead. In addition, the propellant was doing it's job correctly, as we can see ventilation from both ends of the RPG. This led to a lower chamber pressure. Lastly, and this was the largest life saving factor in my opinion, it appears as if the RPG suffered a catastrophic failure of the pressure chamber away from the body, which caused the majority of the blast to be directed forward and away from him. These factors combined are likely, in my opinion, the only reason he survived, alongside a very healthy dose of luck.
They did actually make a video giving their analysis and how they believe it happened. The leading theory is the propellant charge fragmented after ignition, blocking the rear of the tube and over-pressurizing it for catastrophic failure. The “reactivating” weld on the trigger control was simply the weakest link and was the point the explosion used as a way out. All in all, he was lucky but also still alive because he followed safety precautions to their absolute T as a former medic.
@@BigRheno and @polaris30000 Makes me wonder - do any of these devices have a pressure outlet for misfire (e.g., if tube pressure hits a certain amount a valve blows like on a pressure cooker) or are we pretty much screwed when these things blow up like a Glock with +++P+++ hot handloads?
Follow up question from civilian: Could the placement of the ballistic gel head next to the exhaust caused enough of a pressure backup to cause things to go sideways? I mean, it's not a potato in the exhaust, but I'm sure the RPGs are designed to be launched with a clear backflow and that might be enough to push something over the edge. Thoughts?
As luck would have it, Bryce and Scott from Kentucky Balistics were both sent to the same hospital after their incidents!! Vanderbilt Hospital apparently has an excellent trauma team as they have been able to help save two gun tubers now!
Word. They've saved two of my favorite personalities on TH-cam that I've subscribed and watched since they got on here. So happy for both surviving such insane injuries. Put a thumb in it.
I've have a few friends that should've died, and did die in transit that they saved. Truly mind boggling how they pull some people through. Excellent trauma team.
I've seen this several times and it's a miracle that boy lived. That being said, I've been burned pretty good, took 3 months for real skin to regrow, and seeing that arm brings back bad memories of having to clean that area. Really glad he made it, they make awesome content
My ex wife works in the ER, and some of the horror stories I've heard make my skin crawl (no pun intended). She always said the worst pain isn't the burn, but cleaning the skin to change dressings. Patients would sometimes need to be strapped down.
Had road rash after being hit by a car. Morphine brought my pain down from a 9/10 to negative numbers. Then they started to clean the gravel out of my back and boom 10/10.
From BHS own video on this event, they were shooting empty warheads, simply testing the back blast from the launching charge. So the only this explosion was just from the blackpowder launching charge. If you watch the High speed, you can see his plate carrier was ripped off and shredded. That plate caught alot of shrapnel and more than likely saved him from a lot worse.
What always impressed me about this (beyond surviving the blast) is as soon as Adam realized it was HIM that was wounded, he immediately started going through the various procedures to assess the casualty, rattling off various important bits of information (ex: he's likely dehydrated), and directed those around on how to best treat him and where to find the equipment, as a lot of medical and military personnel are trained to do when there's no one else with that training available. That training of his (I think he mentioned that was CLS certified while he served in the Army, but can't quite remember for sure) definitely helped save his life.
They aren't trained to tell others how to work on them when they're injured. That was just human response. Most times, you'll be incapacitated and unable to do that so they wouldn't waste resources teaching something that's 2nd nature anyway.
Yeah, we trained with what are basically checklists in our heads. Patient assessment, resources available and potentially needed and their locations, scene safety maintenance and more. Trained, drilled and trained until it’s automatic. Still once got a panicked radio call from a terrorist bombing, “there’s blood all over the place!”. Replied back, “is it yours? If not, follow your training”, which snapped him out of overload. Nothing could’ve helped that particular patient though, center of an HE blast, he was pretty much gone when my team got there. But, it prepared him for later cases that he could stabilize. And I’ve been the medic on the ground, talking the CLS that I trained through stabilizing me for transport. Fortunately nothing major, joke being my bodily fluids are non-Newtonian fluids… Ducked better afterwards. Boy, am I glad to be retired! This case, motor/ejector charge explosion. Fortunately he didn’t inhale any of the flame. A HE warhead would’ve peppered him with fragments, but it’s refocused, as those are typically shaped charges. Baro, he’d just been screwed. Ejector/igniter, bad and ugly, prompt treatment and evacuation wins the day, so rapid stabilize, protect airway and evac.
@@J.C... That contradicts my personal experience as I was told repeatedly that was something you needed to be able to do and even ran some drills involving it, but during my training, I was getting the basics drilled into me by an 18D so definitely an "experiences may vary" situation. Also thanks TH-cam for NOT informing me of these comments...
I predict their video will be used extensively through out the medical community for years to come. With the quality and extensive high speed footage of this accident. Dr's and First Responders have a new training video with what to look for, and how to treat such accidents. I would love to see your follow up video on this with Ballistic High Speed.
While no where near as serious, this reminds me of my TBI I incurred last February. I'm a machinist, and had a 3' x 2.5" rod of dense plastic dislodge from a lathe and hit me behind my ear while it was going at 2000rpm. I was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, and don't remember anything that day, before the incident. I ended up with a fractured skull and got transferred to a better city hospital Luckily it only disrupted and not damaged my internal carotid artery (I think it was that one). I didn't require any surgery, just supervision and aspirin. Got to have a sweet 3 month vacation though, and safety standards throughout the shop are better than ever. Definitely could have been a lot worse, lathes can be scary 😅.
I love my long hair, but I won't touch a lathe or mill without a haircut. They catch one strand of hair, and your skull is trying to break a block of steel, and losing.
@@KrieghandtThe gymnasium path I was on back in the day had a metal-working path, a wood-working path and a path called process chem. The walls leading into the machine shop was lined with BW pictures of people who had had accidents like that - one picture was of a long haired person who had lost a *chunk* of scalp to a lathe, talking at least 8x8 cm. Scared sense into us right quick.
Wow that ballistic vest did some serious heavy lifting keeping his torso safe, I'm still blown away that he somehow walked away from this one without losing any fingers Wishing for a smooth recovery, he's already looking so much better!
I doubt his vest actually played any role in the incident. The explosion was centered on the launch tube, sitting just above and in front of his right shoulder. That vest provides zero protection from that direction and you can in fact see that the right shoulder strap and belly band were completely severed by the explosion and flung around his body. Same goes for the helmet. The blast originated below the level of the lip and blew it straight off his head. The only physical object that protected his face and head was, ironically, the rest of the launcher body, as the weld which failed was on the bottom. Had that weld been on the side or top, he would have died for sure.
@@PRC533 actually, the vest protected his thorax from the flames, as there were minimal projectiles flying about. A somewhat similar event happened when an M1 Abrams was struck in Iraq by a new model RPG, the jet entering into the crew compartment and killing the "brain box" computer that ran the tank. The edge of the jet struck the loader in the back, on his ballistic protective vest, minimizing burn injuries to him. The tank was dead, the crew were fine, other than a mildly crisped loader.
Exactly, the vest is designed to protect you from external projectiles coming in laterally. In fact, many vests do not even use ballistic material on the shoulders at all, those are separate pauldrons that you need to add on. In this case his arm is what took the brunt of the fire and is why that was burned when his torso was left with much less. I seriously doubt that his injuries would have been significantly impacted had he been wearing something non-ballistic because the bulk of the gear wasn't between him and the explosion.@@spvillano
@@PRC533 Good points, but watch the video again and you will see his helmet was unbuckled / unsecured 16:57 which is why it flew up so high ! I also noted the front of the vest was torn off which appears to be worn correctly and secured. You can also see the plate detaching. Was the plate just positioned between the vest and the chest or was it actually placed within the compartment of the vest securely ?
Was in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2010 and my saw gunner took an rpg to the face. We were fighting from our firebase and he was on the 240 in the tower next to the MK19 gunner. Direct hit on the feed tray cover of the 240. 3 guys in the tower at the time, all 3 medivaced and lived, but my guy on the 240 got it bad man. If you see this Stetson, love you buddy.
Firsthand experience with 2nd degree burns here. I had a small camper fridge (absorbtion fridge, ammonia, water, hydrogen as refrigerant) explode on me. I had a contract to remove refrigerant from old units at a town dump and this one was the last one i had to recover. The plan was to make it safe for the town personnel to scrap. As soon as the piercing tool punctured the process stub it lit off, best guess the thing sparked and lit the hydrogen off. It sounded like a shotgun blast directly at my face. The pain was excruciating. As soon as it happened my skin felt like it was covered in oil on my right hand. Luckily I was wearing a cotton tee under my long sleeve work shirt so it didn't get much more than my hand, but that was enough to put me in the ER. I can say this with absolute confidence, you don’t want to get burned. Burns do not stop hurting for hours, especially when the ER has to debride the dead tissue and expose the raw nerves underneath. It's the absolute worst pain you can ever imagine
Yeah, even minor burns (I got a burn from a light on my arm when attempting to move it; thankfully, the worker where I happened to be a retired paramedic. I didn't require ER treatment even though, according to him, it was a minor third-degree burn. Placing proper gels and ointment and cooling the wound helped, but I still felt like there was heat/burning. Now, there is next to no scaring, and you can't even tell years later what happened. Proper care IMMEDIATELY during injury saves lives, limbs, and function.
@lithium1770 they did, as soon as I got to the ER they gave me a pill of hydrocodone, and before the debridement they gave me a shot of fentanyl. Yeah, THAT stuff! I still felt every single thing. Burns really are that painful!
I can't help but wonder if catching such an accident on really high end high speed cameras might turn out useful for research into similar trauma in future cases. It's an uncommon type of accident to begin with but very well may be the first time something like this was ever caught on high speed camera.
the data they got from that is impresive to any type of reaserch in that fiel how the body responds.... somthing we understand ish ( the body will do things we dont understand right away.)
So glad Adam is still among the living. Several things worked in concert to save his life: brittle metal around the weld of the reactivated launcher, the fact he wasn't firing a live warhead and, of course, all his safety gear.
It's not RPG explosion, it's RPG launcher malfunction. Adam got hit by propellant overflow, the RPG grenade he launched didn't have a warhead, it was a specially produced rocket. The blast that hit him was the propellant blast that would usually propel the grenade forward and exit to the launcher rear, which can be deadly (that's why they placed a gel head behind the launcher). In this case, due to launcher malfunction, the launcher tube broke and rocket blast hit Adam, thankfully not with the explosive force a warhead would have, but only with a part of propellant force, still nasty, but way less powerful than a warhead. I think it would had been illegal in the US to launch an explosive device, but it's legal to launch an inert projectile and the projectile was produced in the US without a warhead.
It's technically legal to launch non-inert projectiles too, but each warhead has to be registered as a destructive device on it's own, and you need special permits and licences to do so.
After speaking with Adam about it after I filmed this video, my understanding was that it was a combination of a tube failure and the propellant going off all at once rather than sequentially.
Good subject. As a fellow veteran and a long time fan of the channel myself, the original video was hard to watch. I look forward to your analysis (and possibly surprise; I know I was pleasantly surprised he was still kicking).
this reminds me of when scott from kentucky ballistics had a 50 cal explode in his hands, and shrapnel went into his neck, lacerated his jugular and puncturing his right lung. incredible that scott and this guy are still alive.
Thank you for your presentation, Dr Chris. I am a range safety officer certified by the NRA and have been on formal live-fire ranges since 1972, playing range safety NCO since 1982. Sometimes I was teased for wearing body armor (back before it was normal) and a helmet in rifle butts while pulling targets--but during a 1985 combat rifle match at Fort Riley one of the soldiers pulling targets died from a ricochet to the chest. When on an overseas security contract, I was threatened with being fired because I asked questions about medical support and transportation to a trauma center--but the contract compliance officer came to my rescue by getting me certified as the contract's first aid instructor. As I was also the armorer and usually conducted the pre-range training that the contract required, I had my hands on all phases of safety. There was a lot I wasn't able to do--in the Nineties eye protection was not yet mandatory (and some of the older security officers regarded ear plugs as sissy stuff until the M60 machine gun live-fire). Muzzle blast dug holes in the desert floor even when the muzzle was a foot off the ground. While on that security contract two officers died--one from his truck colliding with a lamp post after a tire blew out, one from heart failure after a lunchtime run in high temperatures (greater than 110 Fahrenheit). Several others suffered severe injuries--one officer collided with a fence post on the compound and totaled the patrol vehicle, left a face print on the inside of the windshield, and bent the steering wheel around the steering column--he was lucky to be alive. Watching your commentary and the original videos gives me more ammunition to improve range safety procedures. I'm an active volunteer range officer at my county's public rifle range.
Love the editing in these vids. Always edited in such a way that perfectly switches between the original vid and Dr. Raynor’s vid depending on who’s explaining what.
Thanks for the analysis, when I heard about the explosion I was very scared for Adam. Im sooo glad he's OK. Safety gear when doing stuff like this is essential and even then you can get hurt!
Thank you for this detailed informative video on the dangers our soldiers face beyond just enemy combatants. There are a million things that can go wrong.
I love this video because not only is it a real example but it's something modern and recent plus the high speed capture makes it really unique and I think important.
Of note here. The launcher was originally demilitarized and converted back to "active". The projectiles themselves were also DIY, including the booster. The booster (the rocket launching part) was determined to have failed. It should have been multiple stages, but malfunctioned causing a cascading affect that ignited multiple stages at once. This caused an over-pressure situation which basically turned the launcher tube into a shoulder mounted pipe 8om8.
So in fact the weld patch which failed acted like a pressure relief valve and vented the explosion down and away from Adam.. and saved his life. if not for this weld patch the tube could have ruptured next to and pointing at his head which would have instantly killed him.
Hey Dr. at the 17:10 mark, you can actually see the metal/ceramic 'plate' from his Ballistic-vest getting ripped out of the vest during the explosion. I 'think' i recall that in their most recent video, BHS mentioned they found that plate and it did indeed have scratch-marks on it as it had absorbed at least 'one' impact from shrapnel before it was pulled out of the fabric.
I remember when this happened; they didn’t use a click bait thumbnail or anything; I was mid watching the video just chilling and all the sudden I dropped my coffee mug… I wasn’t expecting it at all. It really caught me off guard and was really shocking to see. I’m so glad he’s okay.
Much love Sir, ty for this breakdown, been watching these guys from the start of their channel, didn’t expect to see them on yours but glad that it turned out as well as it did❤
Thank you for this detailed breakdown! I've been a fan of these guys for a while now, and that "episode" threw me for a loop (and activated my nerd brain). If it hadn't been for their extreme slow-motion footage, this would've went down in history as a "I don't know what happened" event.
As others have stated, I want to reinforce, the warhead was inert and didn't detonate. It was in fact an over pressurization of the tube that caused a blow out, weather the rocket charge spontaneously detonated or fell apart blocking the back half of the tube we don't really know. Its a bloody miracle the weld plate to "re-mill" the weapon was on the right side of it, had it been on the left I think there would have been a lot more damage done.
This was very informative. Thank you, Dr. Chris for the medical breakdown. He is so lucky to be alive and in the end as you stated his safety equipment worked. I would love to see you interview Adam & Brice.
It’s a miracle he wasn’t more injured. Thank god he had the helmet and the vest on. But his hands could’ve been SO much worse. His guardian angel worked flat out overtime that day. I’ve seen far worse injuries from less dramatic accidents! He was a hugely lucky man not to be far worse off… (former A&E nurse here, used to dangling limbs, major trauma etc)… wow
Malfunctions can be very scary and dangerous with RPG-style of rocket launchers. The projectile in this case worked normally but the RPG-7 launcher broke
Not exactly. The propeller charge was faulty and got ignited inccorectly. Igniting multiple propeller stages at once (they are supposed to ignite one after the other) that lead to the tube getting over pressurized.
@@Richard-rk1rufrom what I have heard, this was a “decommissioned” launcher that was welded back together. I would say that played a bigger part and that it was indeed the launcher that failed. It is impossible to tell if multiple stages were set of based on just the film.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68That is also true. In the video you can see most of the hot gasses escape from one point, that was the failed weld. But they said if not for the weak point created by the weld, the whole tube would explode like a pipe bomb.
I don't think the explosion came from the warhead's main charge for two reasons. The first, if it came from the warhead, I would expect a bigger blast and as you mentioned earlier "traumatic amputation". Second, it looks like the explosion is emanating from the tube rather than the warhead in the slow motion footage. I don't know what would have caused this, but maybe a weapon failure? I do not know.
You're correct. The Ballistic High Speed guys did a breakdown of what the failure was. The RPG they used was refurbished, and one of the welds failed in the chamber. They think the ignition powder is what went off and blew the weld, not the warhead.
You are not far from the truth. The ignition charge had issue burning clean and blew out of the weld of the launcher which was what burned and hurt Adam the most.
They used a demilled RPG with a patch welded on it. The Demilitarization process,("demilled" for short)involves cutting barrels and receivers in multiple pieces or cutting holes in barrels for larger things like RPG's, cannons, recoilless rifles. Seeing as how a barrel is a pressure vessel of sorts, the worst thing to do is weld a patch and shoot high pressure charges through it. Pressure vessels are homogeneous in structure(look at videos showing the forming process for propane tanks for a better idea) to prevent blowouts similar to this.
Had a captain lose a hand in Afghanistan because he wanted to play with an RPG. I'm going to give this video a miss for once. But it's a common injury, especially for reclaimed weapons. If it ain't issued, don't fire it.
Right? If you haven’t seen it physically loaded yourself you don’t know what’s been done to it. I don’t even own or fuck around with guns and that seems stupid obvious lol
In this case they had the rockets manufactured specifically for this purpose from a reliable manufacturer, unfortunately as best they can tell there was a defect in the interior of the booster charge which caused it to separate blocking the launcher's venturi tube causing the launcher to detonate. No reclaimed weapons or ammo, just an unfortunate failure.
@@The_Elite_Emerald Yeah, from everything I've seen, it was just a pure freak accident. No matter how many safety procedures and risk mitigation steps are taken, there will always be a risk of Murphy just showing up and bad things happening.
I cannot understand why these two civilians are allowed to play with these weapons! Only in America is this not only legal but somehow encouraged. Weapons of war are not toys! Utter madness.
If I had a nickel for every time a TH-camr with ballistics in there name nearly died from explosions caused by defective ammo I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
My God. He got blown the F up! 😢 God Bless you man! You still have all your arms n fingers...and LIFE! Wow bro, lucky. I've seen people's limbs get blown off for less... You're here for a reason bro. Stay Safe & Be Well 🙏🏻
Shoulder fired anti tank weapons in particular need checking by qualified armourers often to ensure they do not explode due ti dents and cracks and all the mechanisms are fully functional. The only other thing that can go bang at the wrong time is the ammunition so it should be in date and also free from damage. That said shit happens and why we have mis fire and hang fire drills. Weapon blowing up tho on the shoulder is something I have never seen after a long military service. Firing a shitty old RPG is not a wise choice.
The Carl Gustaf recoilless, at least the mk1 all steel version, is extremely sturdy in that respect. There are still OG 1948 production weapons in active Swedish army service. They were designed to be conscript proof from the get go.
From the details I've seen, the launcher was a demilled launcher (as required by law to be imported into the US) that was repaired and the round were manufactured by a well-respected manufacturer n the US. The cause of the explosion is thought to have been a misfire in the RPG's booster resulting in the barrel getting plugged by a part of the booster on both ends, with another part still in the launcher while active. It looks to have been a freak accident.
Dr.Raynor your dope af. You make Doctors look so relatable and efficient. You really show the cool side of being a doctor, and the wealth of knowledge that comes with it. Your inspiring our young men and women to want to follow your footsteps. Thank you. You have no idea how much your needed. Wish I would have found you as a kid. 😂.
I just wanted to say wow and I am truly thankful that they are alright. Great video and thanks for the explanation. I know I have a TBI from not only a Car accident but also a illness.
My goodness! the worst that has ever happened to me was detonating the overspill of butane while filling a lighter, sudden ball of flame all around me. I was not expecting that. Relatively harmless considering it wasn't very much fuel at all, but scared the heck out of me at the time. That is a bloody miracle you have shown there.
It warms my heart that you placed your parents' gold lamp as your kitchen table illumination source. I love the content and delivery of your channel. Greetings from Naples, Florida 🌴
Dr. Raynor, I really enjoy your love for explanation, thorough explanation. Hearing you talk about his loss of conscience and memory brings back to me my motorcycle wreck back in 2011. I wasn't wearing a helmet. I was wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt and flip flops. I don't remember a bit of the accident but I'm fully capable of functioning these days. I don't get headaches very often but I when I do they are like drinking an Icee and getting a brain freeze. They come and go within just a few minutes and hurt tremendously but only happen a few times a year. My body has multiple burn scars from the highway (it was in the middle of the Texas summer and it was super hot). The doctors didn't find some of my injuries until later and because of that both of my wrists are sometimes sore. I bet I tried to brace myself during the "fall". the young man caused. have you done any serious motorcycle accidents on this channel? I would love to see your explanation of those. My facebook still has all the images of my recovery to remind people that you should wear suitable protective equipment.
I had previously heard of Ballistic High Speed in passing, I think, but it wasn't until a breakdown on this video on the Unsubscribe podcast that I paid any attention to them. Glad you're recovering, Adam! And yes, I'm subbed to your channel now!
Definitely wanna see yall sit down and talk about it feom your experience and knowledge and there firsthand having it happen to them would be just a knowledge overload and awesome
Thank you. I would very much like to see follow-up video commentary regarding this presentation. I would also like to see more trauma wound injuries that occur from other events other than weapons, or explosions. Something like accidents around machinery and vehicles. I do not take any glee from such events but look at the educational benefits from learning how to care for those injured and how to prevent accidents from occurring.
Yes please on the podcast- I assume it will be linked in a community post, or turned into a black-screen & audio video and we'll see it when it's ready? The propellent failure here was truly awe inspiring, and a lot had to go wrong. And lot went right due to Adam preparing. I've maintained, while accepting it might be my ego talking, that someone who is properly trained to do deal with emergencies is more likely to survive one because they know it is survivable, rather than just quitting and dying. I"ve also maintained first aid needs to be taught in schools, no later than 8th grade, and it needs to be a pass-fail, including fairly advanced stop the bleed- might not be an RPG but being t-boned by a DUI.
I got a skin graft to cover part of my left thigh and knee from a degloving during a car crash. The harvest sight was equally as painful as the reception sight/injury, which was more than missing skin. It's an incredible medical procedure though. Watching the new skin growing into the thin honeycomb of harvested skin was like watching my own daily sciene time lapse.
Harvesting sites can also look pretty grim for some time and I think that often surprises people. But doesn’t it make for a much better outcome? I’m so sorry you had such a nasty injury.
Thanks to those who pointed out it wasn’t the warhead. When I saw the title I thought that would be impossible. While watching you can clearly see it explodes from the middle. Still crazy he got away with the injuries he ended up with.
Great video! Additional info regarding the ammunition: on unsubscribe podcast they talked about it a week or so ago. The explosion was "just" propellant, as there was NO explosive warhead.
Yes definitely I want to see your podcast with those two BHS guys. I love the way you e xplain medical vocabularies to non-English speaking beginner like me.
Would love to see your conference with them. I am so glad this man wore this equipment because otherwise this video would be discussing what should have been done instead of thankfully he did.
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It was an inert warhead, no explosives
That wasn't the explosive head going off, it was the powder booster charge, which is why there was so much smoke. RPG rounds use different types of main propellant for their sustainer motors which is very commonly nitrocellulose based and doesn't produce smoke. That doesn't start kicking in until the round is thrown about 30+feet with enough force to initiate it. Either way, he was extremely lucky to have survived that. If it had been the HEAT rounds explosive shaped-charge head, he most certainly would have been killed.
The main reason he survived, is because an RPG shoots a shaped charge which explodes in a forward direction
Hello dr ranor i hear that in assuming a person isnt Wearing body armor in a lot of cases pistol or smaller caliber rifle rounds will do more damage than a then a large bore rifle like 30-06 because the smaller less energetic bullets will mushroom and shrapnelize where as the larger rife will for the most part go through and through without expanding that would make for an interesting video
Hello dr ranor i hear that in assuming a person isnt Wearing body armor in a lot of cases pistol or smaller caliber rifle rounds will do more damage than a then a large bore rifle like 30-06 because the smaller less energetic bullets will mushroom and shrapnelize where as the larger rife will for the most part go through and through without expanding that would make for an interesting video
Very interested in seeing your analysis! Was a great time talking to you on your podcast channel as well.
Glad to hear it! I am excited about this video and the podcast episode. It was a great conversation and there was a ton of great info covered.
BHS and Dr. Chris Raynor. You all do an amazing job and put out some of the best content! Keep up the great work! Much love from Pennsylvania. God bless 🙏❤
Glad you are okay brother! 🤙🏼
@@ChrisRaynorMD Can't wait to see the podcast episode!
Thank god Adam is okay, all things considered. Whatever entity was on duty as his guardian that day needs a raise 😬
5:10 The RPG warhead didn't explode next to him; the launch tube exploded from the ejection charge.
yeah if i remember correctly they were using inert rockets during those tests
Yes, I agree. I looks like the warhead launches and the propellant charge makes the launch tube fail.
Yes this doctor didnt even watch the original video. If he is this lax on research for this patients....god help them.
No one cares kid
@@VonRibbitt Nah, it matters. Big difference between propellant going off and a High Explosive charge going off, right next to your head.
Even though the warhead was inert, the charge to fire the rocket is significant. Incredible that he survived, and the speed of his recovery is impressive
The reweld acted as a blast panel. It blew out before the entire tube could detonate.
It was an inert warhead?
That'll be why he survived then.
So it was just the rocket engine detonating?
@@JoshuaMixson9696 you can and they did but they didn’t fire those from the shoulder
@@markmontagna7637 yeah go watch their entire video, they explain it all.
@@MostlyPennyCat Yes
Former military. His survival is definitely outside the norm. From what I saw, there were a few things that contributed to this. First, the warhead was inert or did not detonate, meaning that the detonation was caused by the propellant for the warhead. In addition, the propellant was doing it's job correctly, as we can see ventilation from both ends of the RPG. This led to a lower chamber pressure. Lastly, and this was the largest life saving factor in my opinion, it appears as if the RPG suffered a catastrophic failure of the pressure chamber away from the body, which caused the majority of the blast to be directed forward and away from him. These factors combined are likely, in my opinion, the only reason he survived, alongside a very healthy dose of luck.
They did actually make a video giving their analysis and how they believe it happened. The leading theory is the propellant charge fragmented after ignition, blocking the rear of the tube and over-pressurizing it for catastrophic failure. The “reactivating” weld on the trigger control was simply the weakest link and was the point the explosion used as a way out.
All in all, he was lucky but also still alive because he followed safety precautions to their absolute T as a former medic.
These are also civilian made munitions so less quality control than actual military produced munitions
@@BigRheno and @polaris30000 Makes me wonder - do any of these devices have a pressure outlet for misfire (e.g., if tube pressure hits a certain amount a valve blows like on a pressure cooker) or are we pretty much screwed when these things blow up like a Glock with +++P+++ hot handloads?
@@gunkid6368 Talk to any US solider and they have plenty of stories of malfunctioning munitions; especially small arms munitions. It happens.
Follow up question from civilian: Could the placement of the ballistic gel head next to the exhaust caused enough of a pressure backup to cause things to go sideways? I mean, it's not a potato in the exhaust, but I'm sure the RPGs are designed to be launched with a clear backflow and that might be enough to push something over the edge. Thoughts?
As luck would have it, Bryce and Scott from Kentucky Balistics were both sent to the same hospital after their incidents!! Vanderbilt Hospital apparently has an excellent trauma team as they have been able to help save two gun tubers now!
New ad: "Vanderbilt Hospital - the first choice trauma center of pew-pewtubers everywhere!" j/k Great job on the Vanderbilt people for saving lives!
Word. They've saved two of my favorite personalities on TH-cam that I've subscribed and watched since they got on here. So happy for both surviving such insane injuries. Put a thumb in it.
I've have a few friends that should've died, and did die in transit that they saved. Truly mind boggling how they pull some people through. Excellent trauma team.
Somebody’s got to save our favorite village idiots lol
As a Tennessee Native Vandy medical is genuinly one of the most prideful things I can say about our state it's an amazing establishment.
I've seen this several times and it's a miracle that boy lived. That being said, I've been burned pretty good, took 3 months for real skin to regrow, and seeing that arm brings back bad memories of having to clean that area. Really glad he made it, they make awesome content
Thanks for sharing. Wait until you see the podcast interview. There is some burn-related content that you will be able to relate to.
My ex wife works in the ER, and some of the horror stories I've heard make my skin crawl (no pun intended). She always said the worst pain isn't the burn, but cleaning the skin to change dressings. Patients would sometimes need to be strapped down.
@@americansmark she's on point! I was living alone when it happened and had to scrub and change dressings twice a day. Not cool at all
Had road rash after being hit by a car. Morphine brought my pain down from a 9/10 to negative numbers. Then they started to clean the gravel out of my back and boom 10/10.
From BHS own video on this event, they were shooting empty warheads, simply testing the back blast from the launching charge. So the only this explosion was just from the blackpowder launching charge.
If you watch the High speed, you can see his plate carrier was ripped off and shredded. That plate caught alot of shrapnel and more than likely saved him from a lot worse.
What always impressed me about this (beyond surviving the blast) is as soon as Adam realized it was HIM that was wounded, he immediately started going through the various procedures to assess the casualty, rattling off various important bits of information (ex: he's likely dehydrated), and directed those around on how to best treat him and where to find the equipment, as a lot of medical and military personnel are trained to do when there's no one else with that training available. That training of his (I think he mentioned that was CLS certified while he served in the Army, but can't quite remember for sure) definitely helped save his life.
They aren't trained to tell others how to work on them when they're injured. That was just human response. Most times, you'll be incapacitated and unable to do that so they wouldn't waste resources teaching something that's 2nd nature anyway.
Yeah, we trained with what are basically checklists in our heads. Patient assessment, resources available and potentially needed and their locations, scene safety maintenance and more. Trained, drilled and trained until it’s automatic. Still once got a panicked radio call from a terrorist bombing, “there’s blood all over the place!”. Replied back, “is it yours? If not, follow your training”, which snapped him out of overload.
Nothing could’ve helped that particular patient though, center of an HE blast, he was pretty much gone when my team got there. But, it prepared him for later cases that he could stabilize.
And I’ve been the medic on the ground, talking the CLS that I trained through stabilizing me for transport.
Fortunately nothing major, joke being my bodily fluids are non-Newtonian fluids… Ducked better afterwards.
Boy, am I glad to be retired!
This case, motor/ejector charge explosion. Fortunately he didn’t inhale any of the flame. A HE warhead would’ve peppered him with fragments, but it’s refocused, as those are typically shaped charges. Baro, he’d just been screwed. Ejector/igniter, bad and ugly, prompt treatment and evacuation wins the day, so rapid stabilize, protect airway and evac.
@@J.C... That contradicts my personal experience as I was told repeatedly that was something you needed to be able to do and even ran some drills involving it, but during my training, I was getting the basics drilled into me by an 18D so definitely an "experiences may vary" situation.
Also thanks TH-cam for NOT informing me of these comments...
I predict their video will be used extensively through out the medical community for years to come. With the quality and extensive high speed footage of this accident. Dr's and First Responders have a new training video with what to look for, and how to treat such accidents. I would love to see your follow up video on this with Ballistic High Speed.
While no where near as serious, this reminds me of my TBI I incurred last February. I'm a machinist, and had a 3' x 2.5" rod of dense plastic dislodge from a lathe and hit me behind my ear while it was going at 2000rpm. I was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, and don't remember anything that day, before the incident. I ended up with a fractured skull and got transferred to a better city hospital
Luckily it only disrupted and not damaged my internal carotid artery (I think it was that one). I didn't require any surgery, just supervision and aspirin.
Got to have a sweet 3 month vacation though, and safety standards throughout the shop are better than ever. Definitely could have been a lot worse, lathes can be scary 😅.
I love my long hair, but I won't touch a lathe or mill without a haircut. They catch one strand of hair, and your skull is trying to break a block of steel, and losing.
@@KrieghandtThe gymnasium path I was on back in the day had a metal-working path, a wood-working path and a path called process chem.
The walls leading into the machine shop was lined with BW pictures of people who had had accidents like that - one picture was of a long haired person who had lost a *chunk* of scalp to a lathe, talking at least 8x8 cm.
Scared sense into us right quick.
@@Krieghandtcan’t have that! I can’t afford to replace a block of quality steel. ;)
Wow that ballistic vest did some serious heavy lifting keeping his torso safe, I'm still blown away that he somehow walked away from this one without losing any fingers
Wishing for a smooth recovery, he's already looking so much better!
Had fractured ribs twice, courtesy of ESAPI plates and vest. Would’ve been fatal penetrating trauma otherwise.
I doubt his vest actually played any role in the incident. The explosion was centered on the launch tube, sitting just above and in front of his right shoulder. That vest provides zero protection from that direction and you can in fact see that the right shoulder strap and belly band were completely severed by the explosion and flung around his body. Same goes for the helmet. The blast originated below the level of the lip and blew it straight off his head. The only physical object that protected his face and head was, ironically, the rest of the launcher body, as the weld which failed was on the bottom. Had that weld been on the side or top, he would have died for sure.
@@PRC533 actually, the vest protected his thorax from the flames, as there were minimal projectiles flying about. A somewhat similar event happened when an M1 Abrams was struck in Iraq by a new model RPG, the jet entering into the crew compartment and killing the "brain box" computer that ran the tank. The edge of the jet struck the loader in the back, on his ballistic protective vest, minimizing burn injuries to him.
The tank was dead, the crew were fine, other than a mildly crisped loader.
Exactly, the vest is designed to protect you from external projectiles coming in laterally. In fact, many vests do not even use ballistic material on the shoulders at all, those are separate pauldrons that you need to add on. In this case his arm is what took the brunt of the fire and is why that was burned when his torso was left with much less. I seriously doubt that his injuries would have been significantly impacted had he been wearing something non-ballistic because the bulk of the gear wasn't between him and the explosion.@@spvillano
@@PRC533 Good points, but watch the video again and you will see his helmet was unbuckled / unsecured 16:57 which is why it flew up so high ! I also noted the front of the vest was torn off which appears to be worn correctly and secured. You can also see the plate detaching. Was the plate just positioned between the vest and the chest or was it actually placed within the compartment of the vest securely ?
Was in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2010 and my saw gunner took an rpg to the face. We were fighting from our firebase and he was on the 240 in the tower next to the MK19 gunner. Direct hit on the feed tray cover of the 240. 3 guys in the tower at the time, all 3 medivaced and lived, but my guy on the 240 got it bad man. If you see this Stetson, love you buddy.
Don't say it here, find a way to make sure he hears it if you mean it. It can mean more than we think.
Not only did he survive but he was astonishingly intact too.
Firsthand experience with 2nd degree burns here. I had a small camper fridge (absorbtion fridge, ammonia, water, hydrogen as refrigerant) explode on me. I had a contract to remove refrigerant from old units at a town dump and this one was the last one i had to recover. The plan was to make it safe for the town personnel to scrap. As soon as the piercing tool punctured the process stub it lit off, best guess the thing sparked and lit the hydrogen off. It sounded like a shotgun blast directly at my face. The pain was excruciating. As soon as it happened my skin felt like it was covered in oil on my right hand. Luckily I was wearing a cotton tee under my long sleeve work shirt so it didn't get much more than my hand, but that was enough to put me in the ER. I can say this with absolute confidence, you don’t want to get burned. Burns do not stop hurting for hours, especially when the ER has to debride the dead tissue and expose the raw nerves underneath. It's the absolute worst pain you can ever imagine
Yeah, even minor burns (I got a burn from a light on my arm when attempting to move it; thankfully, the worker where I happened to be a retired paramedic. I didn't require ER treatment even though, according to him, it was a minor third-degree burn. Placing proper gels and ointment and cooling the wound helped, but I still felt like there was heat/burning. Now, there is next to no scaring, and you can't even tell years later what happened. Proper care IMMEDIATELY during injury saves lives, limbs, and function.
man why can't they just give you pain meds aaaagghghgg
@lithium1770 they did, as soon as I got to the ER they gave me a pill of hydrocodone, and before the debridement they gave me a shot of fentanyl. Yeah, THAT stuff! I still felt every single thing. Burns really are that painful!
I can't help but wonder if catching such an accident on really high end high speed cameras might turn out useful for research into similar trauma in future cases. It's an uncommon type of accident to begin with but very well may be the first time something like this was ever caught on high speed camera.
the data they got from that is impresive
to any type of reaserch in that fiel
how the body responds.... somthing we understand ish ( the body will do things we dont understand right away.)
So glad Adam is still among the living. Several things worked in concert to save his life: brittle metal around the weld of the reactivated launcher, the fact he wasn't firing a live warhead and, of course, all his safety gear.
I personally would love to see your interview with them.
I will post it on the community page once it is edited.
@@ChrisRaynorMD Thank you for letting me know.
It's not RPG explosion, it's RPG launcher malfunction. Adam got hit by propellant overflow, the RPG grenade he launched didn't have a warhead, it was a specially produced rocket. The blast that hit him was the propellant blast that would usually propel the grenade forward and exit to the launcher rear, which can be deadly (that's why they placed a gel head behind the launcher). In this case, due to launcher malfunction, the launcher tube broke and rocket blast hit Adam, thankfully not with the explosive force a warhead would have, but only with a part of propellant force, still nasty, but way less powerful than a warhead. I think it would had been illegal in the US to launch an explosive device, but it's legal to launch an inert projectile and the projectile was produced in the US without a warhead.
It's technically legal to launch non-inert projectiles too, but each warhead has to be registered as a destructive device on it's own, and you need special permits and licences to do so.
After speaking with Adam about it after I filmed this video, my understanding was that it was a combination of a tube failure and the propellant going off all at once rather than sequentially.
Good subject. As a fellow veteran and a long time fan of the channel myself, the original video was hard to watch. I look forward to your analysis (and possibly surprise; I know I was pleasantly surprised he was still kicking).
this reminds me of when scott from kentucky ballistics had a 50 cal explode in his hands, and shrapnel went into his neck, lacerated his jugular and puncturing his right lung. incredible that scott and this guy are still alive.
Yes! An interview with them would be great! Very informative! Thanks to both parties for all that you do!
Thank you for your presentation, Dr Chris. I am a range safety officer certified by the NRA and have been on formal live-fire ranges since 1972, playing range safety NCO since 1982. Sometimes I was teased for wearing body armor (back before it was normal) and a helmet in rifle butts while pulling targets--but during a 1985 combat rifle match at Fort Riley one of the soldiers pulling targets died from a ricochet to the chest. When on an overseas security contract, I was threatened with being fired because I asked questions about medical support and transportation to a trauma center--but the contract compliance officer came to my rescue by getting me certified as the contract's first aid instructor. As I was also the armorer and usually conducted the pre-range training that the contract required, I had my hands on all phases of safety. There was a lot I wasn't able to do--in the Nineties eye protection was not yet mandatory (and some of the older security officers regarded ear plugs as sissy stuff until the M60 machine gun live-fire). Muzzle blast dug holes in the desert floor even when the muzzle was a foot off the ground. While on that security contract two officers died--one from his truck colliding with a lamp post after a tire blew out, one from heart failure after a lunchtime run in high temperatures (greater than 110 Fahrenheit). Several others suffered severe injuries--one officer collided with a fence post on the compound and totaled the patrol vehicle, left a face print on the inside of the windshield, and bent the steering wheel around the steering column--he was lucky to be alive.
Watching your commentary and the original videos gives me more ammunition to improve range safety procedures. I'm an active volunteer range officer at my county's public rifle range.
Also, I had to shed tears due to the humanity and friendship of the unfortunate duo.
Thank God for Adam's health and friends like Bryson.
Love the editing in these vids. Always edited in such a way that perfectly switches between the original vid and Dr. Raynor’s vid depending on who’s explaining what.
Love to see a truly intelligent doctor, because knowing about the things that lead up to an injury is very important.
Thanks for the analysis, when I heard about the explosion I was very scared for Adam. Im sooo glad he's OK. Safety gear when doing stuff like this is essential and even then you can get hurt!
Thank you for this detailed informative video on the dangers our soldiers face beyond just enemy combatants. There are a million things that can go wrong.
I love this video because not only is it a real example but it's something modern and recent plus the high speed capture makes it really unique and I think important.
I will always value and appreciate these videos that you make, Doctor Raynor. Thank you for your continued, amazing content!
I appreciate that!
I can’t wait to watch the podcast, extremely informative. Much love to Adam, quick recovery.
Of note here. The launcher was originally demilitarized and converted back to "active". The projectiles themselves were also DIY, including the booster. The booster (the rocket launching part) was determined to have failed. It should have been multiple stages, but malfunctioned causing a cascading affect that ignited multiple stages at once. This caused an over-pressure situation which basically turned the launcher tube into a shoulder mounted pipe 8om8.
So in fact the weld patch which failed acted like a pressure relief valve and vented the explosion down and away from Adam.. and saved his life. if not for this weld patch the tube could have ruptured next to and pointing at his head which would have instantly killed him.
@@dijax7863 Exactly
Hey Dr. at the 17:10 mark, you can actually see the metal/ceramic 'plate' from his Ballistic-vest getting ripped out of the vest during the explosion. I 'think' i recall that in their most recent video, BHS mentioned they found that plate and it did indeed have scratch-marks on it as it had absorbed at least 'one' impact from shrapnel before it was pulled out of the fabric.
I remember when this happened; they didn’t use a click bait thumbnail or anything; I was mid watching the video just chilling and all the sudden I dropped my coffee mug… I wasn’t expecting it at all. It really caught me off guard and was really shocking to see. I’m so glad he’s okay.
Much love Sir, ty for this breakdown, been watching these guys from the start of their channel, didn’t expect to see them on yours but glad that it turned out as well as it did❤
Your breakdowns are so good. I've never studied medicine (EE here) but you break it down so well it's easy to understand.
Thank you for this detailed breakdown! I've been a fan of these guys for a while now, and that "episode" threw me for a loop (and activated my nerd brain). If it hadn't been for their extreme slow-motion footage, this would've went down in history as a "I don't know what happened" event.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As others have stated, I want to reinforce, the warhead was inert and didn't detonate. It was in fact an over pressurization of the tube that caused a blow out, weather the rocket charge spontaneously detonated or fell apart blocking the back half of the tube we don't really know. Its a bloody miracle the weld plate to "re-mill" the weapon was on the right side of it, had it been on the left I think there would have been a lot more damage done.
This comment should be pinned to the top of the comments. Will save people a lot of time.
This was very informative. Thank you, Dr. Chris for the medical breakdown. He is so lucky to be alive and in the end as you stated his safety equipment worked. I would love to see you interview Adam & Brice.
I would love to see a follow up interview! What an amazing story! Lots of love towards his recovery.
It’s a miracle he wasn’t more injured. Thank god he had the helmet and the vest on. But his hands could’ve been SO much worse. His guardian angel worked flat out overtime that day. I’ve seen far worse injuries from less dramatic accidents! He was a hugely lucky man not to be far worse off… (former A&E nurse here, used to dangling limbs, major trauma etc)… wow
thanks for covering this so quickly. I am definitely looking forward to the podcast
I absolutely love your videos, you help us all in the 2A community reinforce how safety saves lives, and how dangerous our hobbies can be
Yea what crazy is none of this was really their fault rather faulty ammo
Malfunctions can be very scary and dangerous with RPG-style of rocket launchers. The projectile in this case worked normally but the RPG-7 launcher broke
Not exactly. The propeller charge was faulty and got ignited inccorectly. Igniting multiple propeller stages at once (they are supposed to ignite one after the other) that lead to the tube getting over pressurized.
@@Richard-rk1rufrom what I have heard, this was a “decommissioned” launcher that was welded back together. I would say that played a bigger part and that it was indeed the launcher that failed. It is impossible to tell if multiple stages were set of based on just the film.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68That is also true. In the video you can see most of the hot gasses escape from one point, that was the failed weld. But they said if not for the weak point created by the weld, the whole tube would explode like a pipe bomb.
There was no warhead, the explosion was only from the rocket itself.
Still miraculous.
yeah, that was just the engine. If that was a warhead explosion, they wouldnt even find most of Adam :S
He also did fully lose consciousness
It was the demill weld that failed
@moffepolle the rocket charge failed, the force of the explosion just blew out the weld due to it being the path of least resistance.
@@Squeeble00 Typically steel welds are stronger than the surrounding surrounding base metal. No idea in this specific case.
Absolutely love what you’re doing here on youtube. If I was ever unfortunate enough to end up on an operating table i’d want it to be yours
Back when this popped up in my recommendations, it blew my mind he came out of it relatively ok! Scary stuff!
I don't think the explosion came from the warhead's main charge for two reasons. The first, if it came from the warhead, I would expect a bigger blast and as you mentioned earlier "traumatic amputation". Second, it looks like the explosion is emanating from the tube rather than the warhead in the slow motion footage. I don't know what would have caused this, but maybe a weapon failure? I do not know.
You're correct. The Ballistic High Speed guys did a breakdown of what the failure was. The RPG they used was refurbished, and one of the welds failed in the chamber. They think the ignition powder is what went off and blew the weld, not the warhead.
You are not far from the truth. The ignition charge had issue burning clean and blew out of the weld of the launcher which was what burned and hurt Adam the most.
They used a demilled RPG with a patch welded on it.
The Demilitarization process,("demilled" for short)involves cutting barrels and receivers in multiple pieces or cutting holes in barrels for larger things like RPG's, cannons, recoilless rifles.
Seeing as how a barrel is a pressure vessel of sorts, the worst thing to do is weld a patch and shoot high pressure charges through it. Pressure vessels are homogeneous in structure(look at videos showing the forming process for propane tanks for a better idea) to prevent blowouts similar to this.
The warhead was inert.
Had a captain lose a hand in Afghanistan because he wanted to play with an RPG. I'm going to give this video a miss for once. But it's a common injury, especially for reclaimed weapons.
If it ain't issued, don't fire it.
I will catch you on the next one Ron!
Right? If you haven’t seen it physically loaded yourself you don’t know what’s been done to it. I don’t even own or fuck around with guns and that seems stupid obvious lol
In this case they had the rockets manufactured specifically for this purpose from a reliable manufacturer, unfortunately as best they can tell there was a defect in the interior of the booster charge which caused it to separate blocking the launcher's venturi tube causing the launcher to detonate. No reclaimed weapons or ammo, just an unfortunate failure.
@@The_Elite_Emerald Yeah, from everything I've seen, it was just a pure freak accident. No matter how many safety procedures and risk mitigation steps are taken, there will always be a risk of Murphy just showing up and bad things happening.
I cannot understand why these two civilians are allowed to play with these weapons! Only in America is this not only legal but somehow encouraged. Weapons of war are not toys! Utter madness.
Love the both of y’all and can’t wait to seen both in one podcast.
Great analysis! I can’t wait to see/listen to your interview with them!
If I had a nickel for every time a TH-camr with ballistics in there name nearly died from explosions caused by defective ammo I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Note for myself: never put "Ballistic" on a gun channel's name
It does seem to have a jinx on it.
My God. He got blown the F up! 😢
God Bless you man! You still have all your arms n fingers...and LIFE!
Wow bro, lucky. I've seen people's limbs get blown off for less... You're here for a reason bro.
Stay Safe & Be Well 🙏🏻
Was waiting on you to cover this! Thanks Doc
Shoulder fired anti tank weapons in particular need checking by qualified armourers often to ensure they do not explode due ti dents and cracks and all the mechanisms are fully functional. The only other thing that can go bang at the wrong time is the ammunition so it should be in date and also free from damage. That said shit happens and why we have mis fire and hang fire drills. Weapon blowing up tho on the shoulder is something I have never seen after a long military service. Firing a shitty old RPG is not a wise choice.
The Carl Gustaf recoilless, at least the mk1 all steel version, is extremely sturdy in that respect.
There are still OG 1948 production weapons in active Swedish army service. They were designed to be conscript proof from the get go.
From the details I've seen, the launcher was a demilled launcher (as required by law to be imported into the US) that was repaired and the round were manufactured by a well-respected manufacturer n the US. The cause of the explosion is thought to have been a misfire in the RPG's booster resulting in the barrel getting plugged by a part of the booster on both ends, with another part still in the launcher while active. It looks to have been a freak accident.
Glad to see some of the coolest TH-camrs I enjoy collab and work off of each others videos.
Great vid.
this was a great video Doc!! Love how you break this down for us dummies.
this was such a cool video. really appreciate you taking your time to make it.
Dr.Raynor your dope af. You make Doctors look so relatable and efficient. You really show the cool side of being a doctor, and the wealth of knowledge that comes with it. Your inspiring our young men and women to want to follow your footsteps. Thank you. You have no idea how much your needed. Wish I would have found you as a kid. 😂.
One of the first things I thought when I saw it was I can't wait to see Chris break it down
Saved this as soon I saw it, so excited to be home warm in bed to see your take on this! Love the channel
Very well put together video, I'll be watching more for sure
im loving all the crossovers your getting doc. im looking forward to that podcast chat
I just wanted to say wow and I am truly thankful that they are alright. Great video and thanks for the explanation. I know I have a TBI from not only a Car accident but also a illness.
My goodness! the worst that has ever happened to me was detonating the overspill of butane while filling a lighter, sudden ball of flame all around me. I was not expecting that. Relatively harmless considering it wasn't very much fuel at all, but scared the heck out of me at the time. That is a bloody miracle you have shown there.
Great video. Watching this is scary as hell. Im glad he survived.
It warms my heart that you placed your parents' gold lamp as your kitchen table illumination source.
I love the content and delivery of your channel.
Greetings from Naples, Florida 🌴
Props for linking the original channel in the description.
Respect.
Yes, would love to see that
Interview. Thank you Doc.
Dr. Raynor, I really enjoy your love for explanation, thorough explanation. Hearing you talk about his loss of conscience and memory brings back to me my motorcycle wreck back in 2011. I wasn't wearing a helmet. I was wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt and flip flops. I don't remember a bit of the accident but I'm fully capable of functioning these days. I don't get headaches very often but I when I do they are like drinking an Icee and getting a brain freeze. They come and go within just a few minutes and hurt tremendously but only happen a few times a year. My body has multiple burn scars from the highway (it was in the middle of the Texas summer and it was super hot). The doctors didn't find some of my injuries until later and because of that both of my wrists are sometimes sore. I bet I tried to brace myself during the "fall". the young man caused. have you done any serious motorcycle accidents on this channel? I would love to see your explanation of those. My facebook still has all the images of my recovery to remind people that you should wear suitable protective equipment.
I had previously heard of Ballistic High Speed in passing, I think, but it wasn't until a breakdown on this video on the Unsubscribe podcast that I paid any attention to them.
Glad you're recovering, Adam! And yes, I'm subbed to your channel now!
I had been waiting for this analysis, I'm so glad he's ok.
Definitely wanna see yall sit down and talk about it feom your experience and knowledge and there firsthand having it happen to them would be just a knowledge overload and awesome
Very informative video, I hope you get an award from TH-cam or some other media for the great content! Keep up the good work!
Thank you Doc!!!! Amazing video as always!!!!
Great examination. I watched all the HSB videos on this. Thanks for the medical review.
Although horrible to experience, it is also fascinating from a medical perspective! Thanks for sharing this video!
I'd wager this is the only slow-motion footage of a catastrophic explosion at close range on a living person as well.
I could listen to Dr. Chris all day. Its all great information !
Great video, doctor. Thanks so very much!
I would love to see the podcast vid! This whole thing has been a fantastic learning experience.
That bit about the postures was super interesting. Thanks for the content
I would apreciate talk with Adam for sure. There are not so many people with medical knowledge that would make something like this.
I would love to see a follow up video with you discussing the incident with them. Hopefully you can make that happen. I will be keeping an eye out.
Thank you. I would very much like to see follow-up video commentary regarding this presentation. I would also like to see more trauma wound injuries that occur from other events other than weapons, or explosions. Something like accidents around machinery and vehicles. I do not take any glee from such events but look at the educational benefits from learning how to care for those injured and how to prevent accidents from occurring.
The fact he's alive is a miracle in and of itself. Truly one of the luckiest human beings on earth.
I would love to see an interview, not just the injuries but also response to the event and the healing aspect of it. If they are up for it.
Yes please on the podcast- I assume it will be linked in a community post, or turned into a black-screen & audio video and we'll see it when it's ready? The propellent failure here was truly awe inspiring, and a lot had to go wrong. And lot went right due to Adam preparing. I've maintained, while accepting it might be my ego talking, that someone who is properly trained to do deal with emergencies is more likely to survive one because they know it is survivable, rather than just quitting and dying. I"ve also maintained first aid needs to be taught in schools, no later than 8th grade, and it needs to be a pass-fail, including fairly advanced stop the bleed- might not be an RPG but being t-boned by a DUI.
Yes pls. I would be very interested in the podcast. Thx dr Chris. An amazing breakdown yet again.
Very glad to see the guy doin so well. What a boss
I got a skin graft to cover part of my left thigh and knee from a degloving during a car crash. The harvest sight was equally as painful as the reception sight/injury, which was more than missing skin. It's an incredible medical procedure though. Watching the new skin growing into the thin honeycomb of harvested skin was like watching my own daily sciene time lapse.
Harvesting sites can also look pretty grim for some time and I think that often surprises people. But doesn’t it make for a much better outcome? I’m so sorry you had such a nasty injury.
ouch dude.
Thanks to those who pointed out it wasn’t the warhead. When I saw the title I thought that would be impossible. While watching you can clearly see it explodes from the middle. Still crazy he got away with the injuries he ended up with.
Great video! Additional info regarding the ammunition: on unsubscribe podcast they talked about it a week or so ago. The explosion was "just" propellant, as there was NO explosive warhead.
Yes doc, I would like to see that interview with Adam and Bryce. Thanks for the explanation. Don't get blown up.
Yes definitely I want to see your podcast with those two BHS guys. I love the way you e xplain medical vocabularies to non-English speaking beginner like me.
Been waiting on this one!
So glad he survived, I’ve been seeing this vid all over instagram and I just had to find out if he was alright.
Would love to see a episode with them :D Thanks Doctor ❤
Would love to see your conference with them. I am so glad this man wore this equipment because otherwise this video would be discussing what should have been done instead of thankfully he did.
Great video! Just the other day, I watched their interview on the unsubscribed podcast. Adam sure has more to tell, you can explain.
Glad you enjoyed it!