Chinese "Laser AK-47": DEBUNKED!
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2018
- A Chinese company claims to have developed a laser gun that can set people on fire and blow up gas tanks from nearly a kilometer away. Is a laser like this even possible? Watch to find out!
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Original article reporting on the laser rifle: www.scmp.com/news/china/diplo...
Clearly these claims are far fetched, but the company went as far as releasing an incredibly underwhelming video of the gun working:
www.scmp.com/news/china/diplo...
In this video I explain why this laser gun is something of fiction. I first try to decode the laser's wavelength, and then use the Rayleigh Criterion to derive a best case scenario of what the beam will look like at 800m. Then using the Stefan-Boltzmann law, I calculate the minimum power necessary to ignite clothes on fire. It becomes clear that a laser gun capable of that kind of destruction would require a giant pile of Li-ion batteries to operate, let alone the plethora of other issues that would arise with a multi kilowatt laser in a 3kg device. - Věda a technologie
This video was unfairly demonetized, and CZcams denied my appeal. Clearly they didn't watch the actual video considering what else gets a pass on YT these days.
That’s unfortunate as it is clearly such a great video.
unfortunate
Welcome to CZcams gun videos.
I didn’t hear any swearing or see any type of violent content in this video, this is false demonetization, you don’t deserve this.
Sorry to hear that chief, CZcams’s really fucking over the good content creators
Chinese Laser AK
so... the RAY-K 47?
Tayk 47
Lol
>:(
He should mKe a raybyn from code
I meant..
He should make a eqygun from code
I meant..
Be sho
I meant..
He should make a ray gun from cod
@@midobula4797 You know you have a backspace right
I love how they add “AK-47” which means nothing but a name. A more accurate title for the weapon would be a “Laser Rifle”. I’m talking about why they call it not why he calls it
No
midobula tf you mean “no”
yeah good point it has absolutely no similarities.
No U I don’t fkn know, I think I was drunk when I wrote this
News page seemed to mention that it weighs about as much as an AK-47
wow, the only scenario where a tinfoil hat is an effective weapon
Or maybe a mirror
I we start using laser guns I'm gonna start wearing polished plate armour.
@@appa609 just make sure you are not up against his Ruby laser that will blast right through it
@@appa609 "Have at thee, knave!"
reflect suit
"When will we ever need all this stuff we learn in uni" Styropyro: Hold my moth
ROFL!
Lol.
I made it through a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, and many of the classes are there to build up to industry standards for various topics. Math and science are built into engineering, and while you might not need modern controls theory in bridge-building, training the math skills is certainly a valuable exercise.
Seriously, Exo. "When will we ever use calculus in real life?" For me, as an aerospace engineer, every day. It's the bread and butter of a LOT of calculations, especially atmospheric, in that field.
Heck, the whole point of CFD is to teach the computers to do the calculus for you, and since they can't actually do calculus, you have to REALLY know what you're doing to get that to work properly.
Guys, this is a joke. It's not a circle-jerk for you to talk about your degrees.
Laser weapons that blind aren't banned by international law, only ones designed specifically to blind.
They say the gun can be used in hostage situations. Even if you shoot the guy with the gun, everybody else in the room instantly goes blind, as well as anybody outside taking any sort of reflection. Looking at the spot of a 0.5W laser on the wall can permanently damage the eyes, so how about one 2000x stronger?
styropyro Even if it didn't blind people, using burning lasers sounds like a terrible idea for a hostage situation, it seems like you'd end up burning the whole damn building down with everyone still trapped inside
Using a laser for a hostage situation sounds more like wanting a laser weapon cus "woah dude" than actually wanting to resolve hostage situations
Potentially with some kind of computer-controlled thing to track and point the beam directly at the target's eyeballs, you could easily blind several people with significantly less power than that in only a few milliseconds.
Tasu 1 because the geneva convention protects them as much as it limits them. If they start breaking the geneva rules, then they become free game for everyone else bound by the geneva convention to also use normally convention-defying weapons against them.
The U.S. actually designed a laser weapon for temporary disorientation of troops, but the PHASR was pulled because of "friendly fire" incidents and it turned out to actually have caused permanent eye damage.
I mean, what's so bad about eye damage to the enemy when you're trying to kill them?
@@orbitaloutcast9878 The Geneva Convention, which basically tries to prevent unnecessary suffering.
@@avi8aviate But what's unnecessary when you're trying to fucking kill them? you're essentially trying to pop a 5 centimeter long Artillery round into their legs, what's so "Inhumane" about blinding them so you could kill them?
@@orbitaloutcast9878 because after blinding them they are practically defenseless, it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel and that damages troops way worse than just kuthunking them in the head with a 5.56 round
@@TIXLTIF War is so complicated, I hope I don't get drafted from my humble carib abode.
This Chinese claim is pointless. If they had this, why tell the world and if they don't, why expose themselves as liars?
If it was a real weapon, they wouldn't give specs (truthfully) and if it was BS than the specs would also be BS. However, in the original article, they have several images and the first, located at the top, is very important. The large, 10-15 cm lens that presumably screws onto the threaded barrel shown in the second image changes the calculations of energy density, power requirements and battery capacity by as much as 2 orders of magnitude. Erbium and thulium fiber lasers are likely candidates, but neither has any hope of igniting a gas tank. Even the press releases by our military contractors of their enormous ship based lasers struggle with that.
propaganda
Yeah propaganda, you could potentially argue that it is a pulse laser so the energy per shot is higher but that adds a bunch of other problems mainly size and weight
@@chikinnunget5231 that paper is not mainstream, I suppose that article might be a clickbait
Those ship based lasers are meant to heat and soften the shells of incoming missiles to cause them to buckle under the strain of flight forces and to veer off course to their intended target due to critical deformation. They don't need to burn the missile- just soften it up by heating it hotter than it was designed to withstand.
@@bodaciouschad and maybe knock a hole in it or melt a wire
Student: math is useless, how does it pertain to real life
Teacher: shows video
Math is life, everything is life
Math is everything
yes ofc cos i'm building a fucking laser rifle for living
La Lil Goat
I really struggled with algebra in high-school and thought I might have a chance of making it as an electrical engineer instead of a mechanical one...
4:09 🤦🏾♂️
Why does the teacher say "show video"
4:12 "using a little bit of math" shows a page full of advanced trigonometry and calculus. yeah a "little bit".
doesn't the whole thing just proves the Rayleigh Criterion? and only that the boxed equation at the end matters, so technically yeah, a little bit
He said physics
Physics
OOF.
Raleigh Criterion is freshmen physics
"could set people on fire"
How could the Chinese confirm that their laser gun can do that?
@@luhwizz
OOF
@@luhwizz shhhhhhhh
@@luhwizz maybe it's Nigel? 3 of those letters appear in your screen name.
that is just BS, it is same as saying your phone can have 18 hours of battery under "LAB CONDITIONS"
It's china...
Chinese: taking notes and copying math
“645 watts you say?”
Like the time germans took british tanks and found the faults, then the british spies stole that info and brought it back to britain
Your videos should be shown in schools around the nation to get kids interested in applied math and physics. Great job dude.
And also to get them interested in death ray-ology
Samuel of the Brooms
Well he _does_ tutor, IIRC, so it tracks that he is good at teaching.
we would've gotten star wars sabers and guns if these videos were shown to children earlier
At 0:19 if you look at the tabs you can see, “Dank Memes,” and “Is it bad if it hurts when i pee.”😂😂
Happygreenland12 WHY isn't this comment liked more????
100th like
Intentionally put there
Lmao.
Is he looking at dankmemes through the browser or is he on r/dankmemes
styropyro: **casually throws lit match into puddle of flammable liquid**
Title: “...AK-47...”
CZcams: *Do you want to get demonetized?*
The 1 thumbs down was probably the Chinese government.
PoppaBloodVessel it was because of the AR15 he's holding at the end.
Ping himself just hunched in front of a monitor skipping ads and kicking dissent's ass, but he's all out of ads
Didn't china ban CZcams?
Fucking Chump, banned for the people but not the leaders
PoppaBloodVessel It would be simpler for them just to donate a bunch of money to styropyro and watch for the tutorials on ever more powerful laser builds he’d inevitably release.
Stay in school kids and be like this guy
He did chemistry in school.
For your own safety, don't be like this guy
0:19 "is it bad if it hurts when I pee?" Please tell me that this is a joke
Easter egg. He also searched for dank memes and such
0:24
"dank memes"
"is it bad if it hurts when i pee"
i just noticed that
Did he say it can do *A L O T O F D A M A G E* ?
To show you the power of the laser AK-47, I burned this boat in half!
Freedom Of Speech does more damage than my pump
Noone got your Flex Tape joke lol
Gmod2012lo1 what is this... *_flex tape_* ...you speak of?
@@carolynnguyen1544 I believe it is indestructible tape that people believe a broken boat can survive on water if the tape held it together, my friend.
*Bu-ullcrap*
willem dafaq if you turn down the volume you can clearly tell that’s not what he says
Was close he almost got... DEMONETIZED!
looks like bullshit to me
bull pup more like BULL CRAP
Laser AK-47...about as truthful as an $80 Trijicon from AliExpress which contains Tririum.
This video was actually super interesting!!
Your analysis was really really good!!
Can you collab with Elon Musk?
@@FishbedFive he would probaly blow to much stuff up
Laser Tesla
Make a cybertruck with laser turrets.
elon sucks
What about Michael Reeves
Wait I thought this was a thunderfoot video
Space duck. Not nearly long enough LOL it'd need at least another 20 minutes of length
Same
It doesn't repeat itself eight thousand fucking times, obsessively jerking itself off over its previous 5 videos on the exact same fucking topic and isn't 4 times longer than necessary so no, it's not a thunderf00t video.
10mintwo wow, that's an incredibly accurate description lol.
nah it needs the same video clip replayed at least 5 times in the same video to be a thunderf00t video.
"Using a little bit of physics" 4:11
just stuff you learn and wonder when the f am i ever going to need this?
That is literally one page of one book of dosens you need to read just to get a bachelor's.
Because physics no longer apply
A little huh
That's what i was thinking XD
No one:
Styro pyro: makes the laser rifles from fallout
I could write with better English when I was 5 years old.
@@tcolondovich2996 I don't really know what you see wrong with the comment tho?
By the way, if you want to get picky, in this case it's "type", not write ;)
Cause he is a wanderer...... Ooooo... wanderer
Ive been watching you for years and you never cease to amaze bro!
Very impressed, your command on the subject matter is incredible.
And we never heard from him again...
Spartan8907 oh but we did...
Styropyro you are brilliant , I cant believe someone so young knows so much about physics , chemistry and mechanics . I remember watching a video of yours when I was about 13 and just now I am really taking it in that u are one in a million ! Continue doing whatever makes you happy !😎
Excellent analysis, methodically working through the claims to determine the best case requirements
Lol the Oof at 6:26
The Inheritor when you have no clue what he is talking about in the maths but still love lasers
An Average Gamer So you're a thrid grader then? Because otherwise you'd have some idea about those calculations.
Oh, don't be like that. That's hardly trivial stuff.
It's certainly not high school grade science.
Oh yeah I see the OOF, lol he plays ROBLOX XDDDD
The Inheritor thats a big oof my frind
You should be hired by military :D
Adam Celadin He can design the phasers for the Space Force
Side of fries I like where your head is
Like legit tho he should
im sure Darpa has an eye on him
Imagine an AI controlled drone capable of melting tires of undesirables... laser is perfect for the job, even steady targeting the same spot on a rotating tire.
This is super interesting!! Found the video on motherboard, and was fascinated by what you do! Keep up the amazing content!
What is motherboard? Aside from a computer component? Is that a video streaming site?
Your videos are great! I think your audio would benefit from a lapel mic. I only recently found your channel and I'm working my way through all of them :)
I came here because I heard about the carbonizing flesh claim. I wondered if a shot to the face might explode someone's eyeballs. Glad to hear it's not possible. Thank you for putting my mind at ease.
Tina Smith lmao Tina really thought China is out here blowing up eye balls with Star Wars blasters
That's actually far more plausible than the "instant carbonization" claim. When sustaining an eye injury from certain laser wavelengths (e.g. 400-550 nm and near-infrared) it's not uncommon to feel/hear a "pop" in your eye followed by a loss of vision. This is because the retina is absorbing enough energy from the laser to cause a localized vaporization of the water in the cells of the retina, basically a tiny steam explosion and destroying a small (or large) portion of the retina in the process. Like Styropyro says though, what structures in the eye and human body absorb this energy is highly dependent on wavelength.
Source: Guy that works with lasers on a daily basis and is scared shitless of them, Styropyro's videos are a source of morbid fascination for me...
@@tcolondovich2996 Here's a source, from the laser safety info page from Oregon State University. It basically says 'yeah lasers can destroy your eyes be careful'.
Laser Biological Hazards-Eyes. (2012, September 11). Retrieved August 03, 2020, from ehs.oregonstate.edu/laser/training/laser-biological-hazards-eyes
@@tcolondovich2996 Speak for yourself. That's all I read...
@@thomasdickson35 what are you talking about?
Yay more Styro, aka the best CZcamsr ever.
Brilliant!
Thank you for the great explanation, you have a bright future ahead!
Love it how you wrote OOF next to the mass of the battery
discord server! : discord.gg/hVZMcWT
styropyro but your never on😭
Well not never...
the thing is that i cant join it because i'm already in it
styropyro what about advanced focusing/lensing technologies. Could something like that be used to jump the hurdles you've pointed out?
styropyro if you look at youtube there is an original report on this from some tv. And the things they say are waaaay different then what others say.
it's a green diode laser used as a non lethal weapon that can temporarily blind you.
China lying!? Woah...
Thank you! Your thoroughness is much appreciated.
Very good explanation and debunking. 😊
A lot of weapon companies have a bad habit of talking up their product to get the military sale, so if this weapon is an actual prototype, it's likely to have many, many issues.
They may have made a weapon that only weighs the same as a regular rifle, but neglect to mention you have to have that 10-20 kilo backpack full of highly volatile battery materials.
I don't doubt they could make a weapon like this, but we are decades away from a combat ready device that would do everything they claim in a feild test.
We live in a time when CZcamsrs are genuinely cleverer than actual corporates...and that's a great thing!
NNNI hello!!!! I've seen you in many comment sections in the videos of a guy called Azagro.
+George Vavouras Hey!
Yeah, I watch a lot of Azagro's videos and go to him for help often - he's one hell of a brainy guy!
We talk mostly through Discord now.
NNNI wait, do you have discord? Are you in Keystone's server, a server about electronics? (Well, if you talk to Azagro, then you probably don't need anyone else.)
Azagro has a Discord server. I could get you an invite if you like. It's all about EM weapons, electronics, robotics, etc. We've got a few really good people.
NNNI ehh, better not, thanks for wanting to invite me, but I don't think I would be a good addition. I know very little about electronics, so I wouldn't be helpful and I'll probably not even have questions to ask at all. Btw, if we ever meet each other in discord, my name in discord is Blastboom Strice and my tag #6951.
Nice to see a new upload
Next project : **laser tank**
I have been binging your videos lately and I have to say, I’m very happy and pumped with your approach to science. Modern day chemists could be compared to warlocks in my opinion lol. It’s inspired me to look into the art of chemistry a bit more. I want an understanding of this “black magic” haha
@styropyro what about advanced focusing/lensing technologies. Could something like that be used to jump the hurdles you've pointed out?
Hey man just wanna let you know you're incredible! The amount of effort you put into these videos is far more than most CZcamsrs with 2mill+ subscribers, and it's clear you're passionate about what you do. I wish more people were interested in this stuff so you could at least make more money from this platform :(
6:47 Bottom right hand corner
*OOF*
6:18*
@@GokantheHusky its both
What
Such a professional video, very well put together!🤩
I'm sure after making videos for years, he doesn't need to be patted on the back and talked to like a child.
lol jesus, I feel smarter
I love how using repeatable scientific facts, math and logic you can totally debunk that BS claim. Well done sir!
I heard the company's new rifle they made several months ago alternate between several pre-selected wavelengths.
I like how you used Stephen Boltzmann equation for how hand held laser weapons have been hyped even if one were to use some type of flash cubes for Femto pulses.
Hey you should team up with hacksmith and make a Star Wars blaster with them
Hey good to see you again!
Amazing breakdown. Great vid.
im glad you still make videos .
"Is it bad if it hurts when I pee" lol
Depends if you're into pain.
THANK YOU for actually taking the time to walk us through the math and the physics. I knew this sounded fishy.
Hi.
As the laser beams are AFAIK usually polarized then could you show how polarizers block laser light? Also how would Bell's Theorem look like with lasers?
Why has this JUST popped up on my recommendations?
Why not sooner?
dude i atually love you so much and i love all your videos you made me want to study chemistry and im enjoying that so thanks :)
this is physics but ok
Braad :)
Braad some of his vids are chemistry but get less views
Pyrof00t
Melon. I was thinking the same😅
When I first read the title i thought it was by thunderf00t lol
Oh, i get that
thundert00t is a fool.
A notable factor that would highly reduce the effectiveness of lasguns in combat, would be armor.
Even basic aramid armour can resist heat quite well, although such high temperature would ruin it's ballistic effectiveness, or at least reduce it severely.
Ceramic armour used in all major militaries and even some irregular outfits like insurgencies and militias will further reduce their efficiency.
If you wish to test this and have ~$200 to burn, a cheap but respected Hesco 4401 can be used to check if my theories about energy weapons hold. Alternatively, a piece of Boron Carbide, or just a regular floor tile.
I wonder if one could hypothetically have some sort of focusing rail to manage divergence at distance. You could have multiple beams going through some lens set-up.
lol i stopped watching your channel a long loooong time ago, now I come back and you have videos of your face and talking through them
The math parts confuse me but thanks for making this.
How/where did you learn to design PCB's? And could you link anything you read or watched on designing PCB's?
Another great video, nice work
You scientifically ripped them a new one! :D
Hey, could you make a video about superradiance and (possibly) superradiant lasers?
Been watching you for years and just realised I'm not subbed?! I am now
ok?
Your vids are informative 👍
I didn't understand most of it but this is really cool NEW SUB
Good gosh. Why am I up at 1:23 AM
But it was a damn good video. I always enjoy watching your videos
3:05am here
1:23 isn't that late.
2:36 in Canada lol 😂
2:43 in U.S.A Oklahoma
You said you were going to build a laser sniper a few videos a go, is it still in progress? Nevermind just finished watching
Unless the power supply is a separate unit. Thus the gun without the supply is just 3 kg. I'm also guessing that when it comes to fuel tanks, it heats the container wall as it burns through and once through, the fuel meets the air at the very hot site focal point.
I have no clue if you will see this comment but I recently came across a youtube video of a vintage advertisement that was showcasing a toy lazer called the Plazer Ray. If you can get your hands on one to see the technology that is within it and perhaps Jerry rig it to make it actually as depicted in the commercial that would be so legendary and awesome. Thanks Styropyro.
Yes
Ahh I the great styropyro has been summoned as the laser industry has been stepped upon
My brain suffer every time I see your vids because of the words you use, but I still like your videos.
Good analysis
*_TOP 10 of CZcams's most interesting channels._*
styropyro: proves why laser guns don’t work
styropyro 8 minutes later: hey look at this laser gun i’m building
Not that laser guns don't work, but that that particular one wouldn't
@@planeinglish7095 im joking
@@joeaustin3312 How many times do we have to tell you you’re Joe
@@planeinglish7095 thankyou, you have made me a better man after i read that
Missed opportunity to call it the ray-k 47
Maybe they did some kinda break through in some areas like better focus or efficiency or it's some key to wave length. But my biggest concern is 3 kg gun 2kw power for 2 minutes? 2 kw heater in your hands, good luck holding that in your hands.
You shouldn't have told them!!!
You Should Have Watched Them Fail In WW3
Spectral Regime
Sounds like a cool villain or a mediocre band.
Stupid question, but given that lasers refract over a distance, how effective would a laser weapon be during rainfall, or even torrential downpour? Or would their be an added risk from say something like miniature steam explosions?
Drake would be perfect on JRE. Jiu-jitsu and laser myth debunking.
Am I the only one who caught "Infra-Red Regime" at 1:20 ? Lol
AK stands for Awtomat Kalaschnikowa (Kalaschnikows Rifle). This thing has nothing to do with the inventor of the AK.
“Now for example here I poured a bunch of this very flammable alcohol on the ground and trying to light it with this laser”.....subscribed👍🏾
I doubt you’ll answer, but I wanted to step up my laser game. I’ve used those Christmas sparkle things to make little pistol laser pointers, but I’m getting bored with that. I wanted to find a 50mW green laser diode and a driver. I’ve always wanted to see raleigh scattering with something more than a cat toy. Think you could point me toward the correct direction?
*His passion looks brighter than lasers.*
I love when media faces REAL FACTS from a really smart dude. (you :D)
Always injoyed your video's a many thanks.
Have a question, hopefully you can answer. Is there a way to incorporate a language in the light spectrum to be transmitted like we do, with RF frequency wave lengths? You can email me, if necessary.
Thank you,
Will
You know, on this topic, do you have any information on the PEP and PIKL experimental laser weapons?
Jiang, N; Cooper, BY (2011). "Frequency-dependent interaction of ultrashort E-fields with nociceptor membranes and proteins".