Why you don't want to get hit by a IED

[Belial]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEu5SbpfMrE&feature=related    that ones for spies in my cv.<<<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16heorrfsgY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8joiS62js&feature=related

Man I cant imagine being within 1,000 miles of these suckers.

[JunkyII]

Look at this 1. It is massive!!!!!!   

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

I hear they like to use 155 shells strapped together....there was probably some guy 100yards away in trees pressing a button, lucky he missed

brass casing down your pants...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anleL60GeI4&feature=related

Those suckers are no joke for like 5 seconds after being discharged, I had one land on the back of my neck the first time we shot M16s in Basic

[Shifty]

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.

Well said Simaril, I can't watch them either.

 Our family already knows all too well why you don't want to get hit by an IED.



Bless all who have had to brave those things the past few years.

[mensa180]

One of my good friend's brother was in Afghanistan in a humvee when it was struck by an IED.  It was totaled and they were surrounded.  They took cover in a sort of ditch like thing for days eventually killing all insurgents.  He and his fellow soldiers have my utmost respect.

[MiloMorai]

Most of the 117 Canadians killed in Afghanistan have been killed by these bombs.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/casualties/list.html

[MstWntd]

Safe to view except for bad language at the end, in case you're sensitive to that.

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

Love end ending!

brass casing down your pants...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anleL60GeI4&feature=related

The guy on his left looked at him like..."what the **** are you doing?"

[33Vortex]

I had the same reaction after my chest wound. Could not watch any violence with knives/bayonets or cutting in general without disgust and discomfort. Eventually however it went away but the back pains never have, probably never will, and the sensation of having a hole in my back comes and goes. I have the deepest sympathy for those who can not rid themselves of the trauma, memories are sometimes too vivid for too long for our own good and the fortunes of family is always very close to heart, perhaps even closer than our own personal experiences.

 

[mechanic]

sorry to bump i could not resist as it seems like good news for the soldiers on the balcony in trax's clip.



 Notice in the clip you see the front guy taking flash photography with a hand held camera? The object next to the 1 in this pic appears to be blunt and about camera sized, or part of a smashed camera. The dust cloud surrounding the big impact seems quite clear of any colour from torn fabric or flesh.
 The guy standing far right sees the shock wave coming ducks just in time and the guy at the back was shielded by the camera man, who is impossible to get a view of on youtube.

I assume object 1 to be a blunt object caught in the blast or at a stretch a part or whole camera from the front man's hands. I assume they all lived with nasty cuts and maybe a fractured skull at worst.

[bcadoo]

Ok...simple question.  How come you hear the 'boom' of the explosion immediately and yet the shockwave takes several seconds to arrive?

[hubsonfire]

Throw a rock in a pond- you hear the splash, then see the ripples spread. Same principle, different "fluid".

[sntslilhlpr6601]

Throw a rock in a pond- you hear the splash, then see the ripples spread. Same principle, different "fluid".

I thought the shockwave traveled at the speed of sound?

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

My guess*...The sound is moving faster than the shock wave, flash first, sound second... shock wave third.


Because if the shock wave & sound are made from the flash (da boom!) then the sound must move thus forcing air to displace (shock wave)


Flash, sound, shock wave.

[Sabre]

Was at the airport waiting for my wife to pick me up, when one of the airport staff guided a gentleman to the bench beside me.  It was obvious he was blind.  I struck up a conversation, and it turns out he was a former EOD man with the US Army.  He'd been blinded by an EID in Iraq that he and a buddy were working to defuse.  It went off, completely destroying one of his eyes and rendering the other sightless.  I struggled to find words to express not only my gratitude for his sacrifice, but also to express my sorrow that he had suffered blindness as a result.

"It's okay," he told me.  "My buddy working with me was killed out right.  I consider myself pretty da*n lucky."

About that time, his wife and kid pulled up to pick him up.  As he hugged his teenage son, and I helped load his bag into the trunk, I couldn't help but think about what is truly important in life, and how much we take for granted.  I shook his hand, thanked him for his service, and they drove away.

[mechanic]

My guess*...The sound is moving faster than the shock wave, flash first, sound second... shock wave third.


Because if the shock wave & sound are made from the flash (da boom!) then the sound must move thus forcing air to displace (shock wave)


Flash, sound, shock wave.

I'm no scientist, but i was sure that sound is created by disrupted air not disrupted air caused by the sound.

shock wave = the sound

Reason for the time displacement could be multiple shock waves. The first blast wave carries sound to our ears in the form of a linear wall of distorted air and super heated air molecules. The second wave is more powefull and filled with debris that is being sucked outwards by the initial blast wave, rather than pushed from the detonation epicenter.

I just made that all up btw, so please correct me anyone who knows anything.

[Maverick]

Simaril, Vortex. No cheezy words, just <Salute>. I understand.