Posts Tagged ‘Titanium’

.50 BMG vs. Heavy Metal

Monday, December 14th, 2020

In some of the previous .50 BMG vs X videos I’ve shared, they tended to demolish whatever they were shooting at. This time, I’ve got video of them shooting at thicker and heavier metal plates and blocks.

First up: Going Ballistic tries four different .50 BMG rounds (MK263 armor-piercing, MK211 Raufoss, SLAP tracer, and armor-piercing incendiary tracer) through a Bushmaster .50 BMG against a 1.75″ plate of titanium:

Then they did the same with a two 1″ titanium plates plate, only this time out of an M2AHB Browning machine gun:

Includes a 75″+ richochet!

Next comes the same rounds vs a 2″ AR500 steel plate, plus a Russian “Zebra” round, whatever the hell that is.

Then Demolition Ranch takes on a block of tungsten:

Bonus: Here Matt from Demolition Ranch just drops the tungsten block on stuff from a tree stand:

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.50 BMG vs. Body Armor

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Ace of Spades had this video up of Jerry Miculek testing a Barrett .50 BMG rifle against a body armor plate made of dense polyethylene:

Result: The round did not penetrate the back of the plate. That’s not the result I would have expected.

That got me wondering what a .50 BMG round would do against other types of armor plate out there.

Here’s a video of a .50 BMG first against two Level IV composite/ceramic plate body armor plates.

Spoiler: it obliterates the first plate, seriously deforms (but does not penetrate) the second, hard enough to obliterate the water jog behind it.

Level III Kevlar helmet?

Not only does the .50 BMG obliterate it, it doesn’t even stop an AK-47 round.

More on the same theme.

The .50 BMG doesn’t go through the helmet, it goes though three helmets, and through both sides of two.

How about 1 inch of AR550 steel?

Just over an inch of Titanium:

And just for fun: .50 BMG vs. Legos:

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