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Offline 33Vortex

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Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« on: April 13, 2009, 07:20:54 AM »
Safe to view except for bad language at the end, in case you're sensitive to that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX4anYt1U0I

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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2009, 07:50:33 AM »
nice :aok

Definitely wouldn't want to be under that went it went off.  That shockwave is pretty cool looking.
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2009, 07:54:24 AM »
Here's another nice one that was on there, looks like there was 2 explosions that denonated together.

That was one loud blast too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAN8anmEt10&feature=related
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2009, 07:58:54 AM »
Here's one more for ya, it's an explosion medley, my favorite blast is the first one that detonates in the water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4WuFU6XV_o&feature=related
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2009, 10:03:25 AM »
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 10:37:28 AM »
trax those guys on the balcony 1/2 way thru your last link just about had their heads cleaved.

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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2009, 10:48:15 AM »
:rofl That had to burn like all hell. :rofl

exact same thing happened to me once on a range at night. except it was @ four or five that went down the back of my coller. i was yelling so loud they thought i got shot. the guy in the left side of the foxhole was lefthanded so he had a brass deflector on his m16a2.
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2009, 10:54:08 AM »
trax those guys on the balcony 1/2 way thru your last link just about had their heads cleaved.

Yea i saw that too.  Looks like it took the camera out. 
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2009, 01:15:18 PM »
trax those guys on the balcony 1/2 way thru your last link just about had their heads cleaved.
Yeah, if they got outta that with a hit from that shrapnel, then there extremely lucky, because if they had been a foot more over they'd be dead.

Also just a little info on the first one I posted, if you look in the comment section someone figured out just how far away the blast was based on the time it took for the sound to reach the camera, it's 3430 meters away.
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2009, 06:08:50 PM »
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2009, 07:57:42 PM »
The newest partner in our practice (and a guy who's been a friend since college) is an IED survivor. Was in an uparmored Humvee passenger front seat when a remote triggered device went off outside the vehicle. (Later turned out that it was based on 2x240mm HE shells co-detonating). The armor absorbed most of the fragments, but one came up just over the window's lower sill, missed his neck by less than a half inch, and imbedded itself into his helmet without rupturing the helmet itself. It stuck out like a shard of glass till a buddy yanked it out. The liner had a major dent (that ended up causing him unending pain when a well meaning squadmate shoved the helmet back on, which didn't agree with the significant hematoma he was developing.)

The vehicle was totalled, but he was alert and OK at first....just thought he had his bell rung. Within an hour he was unconscious with what turned out to be multiple eggshell crack skull fractures and the same kind of subdural hematoma that killed Natasha Hendridge. Fortunately for him, though, HIS brain bleed stabilized and he didn't need to have his bleed drained surgically. He was off duty with those wounds and with the traumatic brain injury that the shockwave caused -- for over a year. Unlike so many, he was blessed with eventual full recovery...documented by weeks of testing at Walter Reed and at the Cleveland Clinic. He's practicing medicine without problems.

So I'm not watching those roadside booms. Those videos just come a bit too close to home for me; and I'd encourage folks to look at them with a sober, chilling eye. They're not fireworks for fun....they're attempts to kill and wound people in horrible ways.
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2009, 08:38:53 PM »
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Re: Why you don't want to get hit by a IED
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2009, 10:41:43 PM »
Look at this 1. It is massive!!!!!!   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcQs5KxHgs&feature=channel_page

They must have had that thing buried 15 ft underground.  Good thing that no one got hurt.