I Accidentally Blew Up My Gyrojet
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Today with the help of @BallisticHighSpeed we shoot the incredibly rare Gyrojet pistol, captured in super slow motion! And also…watch it have a catastrophic malfunction in my hands…
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Thanks for watching guys! What surprised you about the gyrojet? And should we rebuild it? Let me know below!
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Any recommendations for a slide and an optic for a Gen 5 Glock 23?
Buy a t-72 and I’ll kiss u
Is that a real question? Of course.
Yes you should
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The barrel becoming the gyroget is the funniest shit ever.
I laughed really hard at that slow-mo footage 😂
It was like a 'real' rocket in a sense haha. Awesome
Bonus points if the next barrel says space x on the side. Nasa would also be acceptable.
Very true, probably the funniest part of the video
@@danonsgard4616spacex is overrated imo
Omg my congressman posted (im not even from Texas)
Part II
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I aint even American but i claim him
Herrera for everyone!@@skullyboi1215
Did he win the erection??
I want to move to TX just for him, lol!
The barrel thing is genius. When a gyrojet malfunctions and gets stuck in the barrel what you want it for it to leave anyway, with the barrel. What you don't want is it staying there and spewing its entire rocket load in your face.
That’s a little scary because the RICOCHET could theoretically re-stabilize and accelerate. But it would cauterize the wound so it’s all good.
Why if you're wearing body armor and the bullet gets suck in your plates and keeps firing?
@@isveryniceyes "ROCKET POKE!"
Didn’t think about body armor, but if the bullet struck something… remaining fuel would continue to propel the bullet. Rocket. Whatever….
Now I'm considering the effect on a car, in the engine bay melting hoses and wires...
Hmmm engine block. Make the bullet out of magnesium and ensure the remaining fuel is hot enough to ignite the magnesium. It would have to be a sizable amount of magnesium to burn for a while. This is an interesting concept for the 1960’s.
The unscheduled removal of the barrel isn’t a malfunction, it’s a feature. One in ten shots will have a critical hit by increasing the projectile mass.
Imagine u live thru
It and have to tell the hospital u got shot with the barrel of a rocket gun
@@davidplants1039they’ll ask how David Bowie came back
Makes for a nice Easter egg reload animation
Rolled a 6 on the Wound Roll.
300% more bullet per bullet.
Not only does this gun naturally shoot 100% more bullet per bullet, you managed to get it to shoot 500% more!
Aperture science will be suing Brandon shortly
more like hiring.
He got a random crit
4:26 the fact that it just readjusted itself immediately is amazing.
By far the coolest gun ever
The barrel flying out at 17:51 was strangely hilarious.
We have started shooting the entire barrel with our bullet thats 450% more bullet per bullet
Thanks for having us out for some high-speed capture! Super glad the next collab video didn’t have a failure 😉
Part II
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Your camera is amazing
I personally am so glad you were there for this episode. Great job guys!
On a sidenote, how's the healing coming along? No more bandages (90s attire) is a good sign.
🤔 hmm, which video might that be?
where AK50 slow-mo and update
but seriously, this was a cool video
Not only did you get new footage of a rare prototype in action, you also managed to get footage of failures of said prototype which is a historical feat in and of itself.
Bravo, Rocket Man.
Totally historical.
@StevieNockmanshut up your parents didn't say that
@StevieNockman i call bullshit.
@StevieNockman You got parents? Didn't your dad leave for the milk and your mom run off with her boy friend?
@StevieNockman My parents said if I gave you a thumbs up they'd shove an ice pick into my ear.
Awesome footage to see. Not something I would want as a primary but badass collector's piece.
Side note: Tinnitus sucks. I've resorted to sleeping with headphones most nights. GF is a light sleeper so fan on high doesn't work and it barely silences the weeeeeeeeeeee 24/7.
We were driving the other day in my old Jeep and i heard a vacuum leak that I thought was stopping when i accelerated. She turns the radio up and asks "How doesn't that high pitched sound doesn't bother me?" I responded "it goes away when I'm on the gas and I'll fix it when we get home" She looks at me and said" Oh you really can't hear that constant sound that lessens when you hit the gas??" I legitimately could only hear the lower tone, higher pitch she's hearing is gone.
When she started shooting I made sure hearing protection was top priority after teaching her safety. When we shoot indoors she will wear foamy and amplifier muffs. I made those mistakes younger and in trainings shooting blanks without ear pro.
This has to be one of the coolest gun videos I have seen. The Ballistic High Speed guys made this incredible.
2:04 "At Aperture we fire the whole bullet, that’s 65% more bullet, per bullet." - Cave Johnson
Are we sure Aperture Science *didn't* develop this?
At Herrera Inc. we fire the whole barrel!
I'm quite sure they did. [srsl though Aperture is kinda based on those coked up companies of 70s xD)
@@Taabituubi THIS!
We do what we must because we can.
Thanks for the reminder. GOLD!
The Gyrojets were built like a well-made cap gun at best.
They used a single cylinder of nitrocellulose. If the rounds were ever dropped, that big grain of powder can crack and cause a more rapid burn rate. Your accuracy was definitely better than what we saw.
I was reminded of your vid when I saw this pop up, love the wacky shotgun slug series btw
Just wanna let you know i saw your video on it when it was brand new.
@@zacharyirizarry8589 thanks Zach!
@@jackmehoff2363 Hard to believe it has been 5 years!
@@taofledermaus yours w
The terrifying fact is. Even without going super sonic. It’s continuous acceleration and stablization. Means you could potentially kill multiple enemies in one shot. And it’s so quiet it’s like a stealth weapon. No ear protection required to fire Most Vietcong were likely suffering from hearing damage and so were US soldiers. So most folks during the war would have never had a chance to hear this weapon go off even if it was fired over their heads. It’s odd non standard and experimental. But the gyro jet had (and still has tbh). Crazy combate potential. I think its design would actually help simplify construction and manufacturing of the actual firearm itself as well. Though the ammo is a special case of the opposite. Lol. Crazy awesome gun
This is definitely one of your best videos ever. The uniqueness of the gun mixed with the highspeed footage make this one of a kind. You did one of the best of things.
A gun that cinematically blows your hair back in slo-mo has to be the perfect weapon for a CZcamsr.
Just wait till he builds the GYRO50
@@CalebGurbano ak50jyro
Give this to someone you don't like who has a receding hairline
Perfect timing following the previous comment. As a balding man, who had dread locks past his shoulders, Brandon's hair is epic. 🤣😂
P.S. Some of us don't miss our hair. It was good while it lasted. I was bald in high-school. Then had dreads for 20 years. Now my hairline looks like the McDonald's golden arches. I don't miss the shampoo, conditioner, hair product, and hours of twisting my locks.
Mini back blast is good for a chuckle until you get turned into a flaming stunt man with something bigger
Now imagine a roughly 20mm Gyrojet being fired at about 300 or more rounds a minute with explosive projectiles and you've got a bolter from 40K.
Lets call it Ak20
That's just the 40 mm
TBF the bolter appears to be a hybrid of the gyro jet and traditional rounds. If you notice most media that depicts them will have spent casing drop on the ground. It makes me think that the bolt uses an initial powder charge to get the projectile up to speed and the jet to flatten the trajectory. Would explain why they are effective in close range
At $200 a round I do hope you can get a volume discount on them...
@@nekrosus7734 WH-40K, It’s already a good name for a gun
Seeing Brandon almost 'Scotting' himself with the gyrojet's got me wondering if he had the idea of having it on a Kentucky Ballistics episode with the intro of him giving it to Scott, going 'just be careful it likes to blow up', and handing him a SLAPP round with a parting 'Have fun!'
That is potentially one of the coolest guns i have ever seen
Someone making him a gyrojet holster and him open carrying a loaded gyrojet would be exactly what his campaign needs right now.
I have access to the right machines to do that. Whether my school will allow me to make a holster, though...
@@lemagicbaguette1917your school* has the tools
@@Pipes7472 fair enough.
@@Pipes7472he has access to the school owned machines. Access=\=ownership
@@justdrifting4749 he edited his comment, tbf I don’t actually care now I shouldn’t of said anything was a bit rude
17:52 There is something profoundly hilarious about watching a gun shoot out it’s own barrel!!
I KNOW RIGHT!!
Brings to mind one of the old school gunsmiths (P.O. Ackley?) strength testing military bolt actions for strength. The Japanese Arisaka action did not fail. The barrel stripped its threads. I always had visions of that barrel shooting down range.
Just like professional weight lifter…. ONE GOOD PUSH!!! And boom goes the O ring
Cave Johnson wasn’t going to stop at firing just 100% of the round.
OMG that was sooooo funny!!!
I've wanted to see this since I was a kid. Thanks guys!!!
Knowles is pretty chill about all the Rocket jokes
Even though a whoul RPG EXPLODET IN HIS FACE!
But not gonna lie the "Wlittle rocket" got me😂
This is genuinely historical footage. It both shows the validity of the principals of the gyrojet concept, and it's flaws.
Awesome work everyone.
Most of the flaws, other than obviously the fact that the projectile doesn't reach max velocity until after it's already left the barrel, are a product of the design not being fully perfected or the ammo being either improperly manufactured, or just degraded due to time.
I'd argue that if you were to make this with modern tools, you could fix a solid chunk of the issues. Hell, you could probably add deployable fins so that you don't need the angled exhausts, which would massively simplify manufacturing for the ammo.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 tbh you could always make this into something closer to a rifle so the rockets have more time in the barrel.
@@102ndsmirnov7 it would be an unwieldy rifle, the rounds reach top velocity a solid five to ten metres from the barrel. Plus, the advantage of a weapon like this, is that it can be extremely small and lightweight without compromising on recoil, velocity or stopping power. The main advantage a rifle-like platform would bring to this, would either be moving the hammer, firing pin and magazine further up the weapon, thus keeping it further from your face, or giving you a better grip and stance for aiming. Although you'd realistically have to do both if you wanted to mount an optic on it.
@@102ndsmirnov7 make it capable of full auto and add some explosive filler into it and you basically have a bolter.
The poor hammer podcast the main host an actual physics engineer scientist was literally arguing about in two weeks ago saying bolters wouldn't work and I've also recently seen firearms experts saying its useless, prop experts saying its useless, armorers saying its useless and scientist saying its useless. This video literary disproves all known common knowledge of its usefulness and might start a new market and Poduction of similar firearms.
17:52
When you unlock the Super Bullet upgrade.
_"Sure, you can only use it once, but it's gonna be the biggest bullet this little guy sends down range."_ -Upgradesmith
[Special attack]
+Increases Projectile Mass
-Can only use once
The problem has always been the ammo which even when it was first introduced, had severe quality control problems one among many is the 4 holes at the base of the bullet/rocket which required very precise drilling else the bullet would not stabilize correctly.
Legitimately the coolest gun video I've seen in years. I've been waiting a long long time to see a gyrojet shooting video in slow-mo and wow... yall did not disappoint! Too good!
Brandon, in regards to the picture of Miller holding a Gyrojet. It’s thought to have also been the gyrojet carried by SOG’s first MoH recipient 1st Lt Sisler, recovered and then later carried by Miller. So that gyrojet in the picture very well might have been used by TWO Medal of Honor recipients.
Three MoH recipients. Brandon is hiding the fact that he used this gun in Vietnam to get him his 2nd ever MoH.
Not to mention it’s appearance in the James Bond film ‘you only live twice’
The weak barrel retention makes me think it was a fail safe component. If you get a squib or misfire in one of those you are literally going to be holding your hand in the jet's exhaust to maintain safe control. Maybe the thought was "it is better to launch the barrel down range than burn off fingers." Not a good design, but could have been a design feature of the flaw.
I was wondering that. It would make a lot of sense. I really hope that, when they fix the Gyrojet, they don’t change that feature. Just make a bunch of barrels tbh, that seems like a better idea
Ah, the old "it's not a bug, it's a feature" defense.
Barrel penetration video next.
@@Kneon_Knight LOL, just sayin' maybe they justified the weak point.
@@Kneon_Knight rather have no barrel than no hand
Nolan from Tacticon Armament at 3:13! Hey broski!
Love y'all's products. (Yes, that's genuine southern slang.)
when you were talking about slow mo shots, i was REALLY hoping to see the slo mo guys 😭 they have such great equipment for this
"This rocket pistol cost me 40K!"
"yes inquisitor, this man right here."
I see what you did there.
For the Emporer
That's like, at least, one throne gelt.
Wonder what the conversion rate on those is^^
May the Emperor bless your wrath dispenser.
The high speed footage of the barrel flying out, while tragic for the gun, was awesome to see.
I started dying as soon as I saw it leaving the barrel
Brings new meaning to shooting the barrel out lol
When you run out of ammo, so you gotta shoot your barrel at the bad guys:
Dude, this is awesome! Thank you for sharing this with us.
I love the experts in high speed being corrected to specifically ballistic high-speed. It's also amusing because the slow Mo Guys also still do a lot of gun stuff.
The rocket propelled barrel launching itself down range was the funniest shit ever.
"At Aperture we fire the whole bullet and barrel, that's 250% more bullet, per bullet."
Just imagine being hit by that!
RPB!!!!! TAKE COVER!!
@@scope81 😂
@@AARONSHEERNit would drill through like an apple corer. Ouch
17:50 So that's how the perk to make the last round in the mag do more damage works? Neat!
From shooting 65% more bullet, per round, to extra damage for the last round before you switch to your next weapon on hand. This gun truly can do it all!
"Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Whoa! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got pistols that will shoot barrels at you, we got knives, sharp sticks..." - modified slightly
It’s like a Garand. Spits a chunk out when it’s empty.
"Plus we fire the whole barrel! That's 65% more....wait what?"
The sound of it firing in the slo mo is objectively much cooler than how it looks.
This was EPIC! Thank you AKGUY and BALLISTICHIGHSPEED for sharing this really freaking cool!
"You're in a survival situation and the only thing you've got to defend yourself is a prototype rocket pistol" sounds like the setup for an old side-scrolling arcade shooter.
In the next Tarkov update...
@@Kriss_L Not too loud. They're gonna hear ya.
Wait until this is the plot of the next Fallout game.
@@johnathon007 Shhhhh. Lolz
D.R.U.M. T.I.T.T.I.E.S.
Brandon - blows up a toob and a rocket gun. Zero Injuries.
Scott - What the hell man?
Pretty sure he would have died without immediate aid when he blew up that stupid pipe rifle.
Don't forget the JTS-12 grenading from the 50 BMG round
@@AB0BA_69which one
@@Benjamin_Bischoff the first one. you know, the one that literally put him in hopsital and made him who he is today? y'know, the "my 50 cal exploded" one?
@@AB0BA_69 didn't Scott himself said he survived it solely because he took his father with himself? Or i'm confusing him with Kentucky Ballistic?
This is hands down, your best vido Brandon, and a fantastic colab with the HSB guys .... always wantedto see one of those being fired, now I have. Thanks again
Honestly, that was more fun to watch than I expected.
It was especially amusing to watch the super slow mo of the gun falling apart. More specifically the barrel flying out the front.
Yes, I feel it should be rebuilt, or something, so it would work better with less issues with extended usage in mind.
Perhaps even a redesign from scratch, if that is something that could be on the table.
Wow what a saftey feature! When you had a bore obstruction, the gun fails and still delivers a metal projectile downrange and prevents you from firing another round unsafely!
Automatic barrel ejection for the win
Maybe it really is a feature, saves the user from getting the full propellent to the face and hands?
It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
The barrel flying away at 17:56 was the funniest thing I've seen all year. I am in literal pain from laughing.
Can't you just see Brandon running after it, yelling "Wait! Don't go!"
My wife in the other room is yelling, 'What the heck are you laughing at so hard?'
That slomo of the barrel leaving the gun with the rocket flame made my piss myself laughing...
Okay it was far funnier than I expected it to be lmao
"i already have to sleep with a fan on high" hit real close to home. can't even sit in a car with the engine off ,no radio, and windows up or else the ringing gets so loud that its almost painful
Holy crow! I did not expect that at all... at all. The scary thing about that is that it gets ballistic in the target. And when it comes out the other side, it has fuel to burn, and you have no way of knowing which way it's gonna go! It could go left, it could go right, you just don't know
As the barrel left the gun on the last shot, I was hearing in my head the following song:
🎵Come with meeee and you'll seeee a worlllld of priceless devastation...🎶
I am soon 75 years old and remember when this launcher came out. I was in High School. It was supposed to be our Space Gun for our Space Troops. You were supposed to be able to set the muzzle velocity by adjusting the tension of the hammer spring. You could set it for max velocity right out of the muzzle or to get max speed at 50 yards. They claimed it was as powerful as a 45 ACP.
As you found out, the problem was the ammo. Unreliable, inaccurate and very expensive.
Great Video!
I don't think the ammo would be so expensive if the weapon that uses it wasn't such a rare novelty
@@deskmat9874 completely agree, but if there were flaws, no reason to produce more
I wonder if with modern tech if you could make a modern one without the negatives..
@@zakofrx Someone would have to try, and would have to make both more modern, better ammo and certainly a better designed gun to fire it. That barrel thing is just bad design man.
I can't see why modern gyrojet ammo couldn't be made. The rounds would need to be created using CNC processes and some novel blend of propellants, and as such would not be cheap, but that's the nature of R&D.
Great watch Brandon. Hope you got her fixed.
that slowmo footage is legendary, and yeah the angled holes make it spin for stabilising and its shockingly effective.
So this basically proves that the whole "nonlethal at 10 yards" thing is fuddlore
The 2nd gel block shot may have not been lethal, misfire in the rocket caused it to have little momentum.
now add winter coat and bushes at 10y
Imagine being the poor guy smoked by a Gyrojet misfire and getting the whole damn gun barrel lodged in your sternum.
@@Sabwones people have lived with rpg missfires
@@Sabwones I think there's a pretty good chance you won't survive the impact.
Most people are afraid to shoot older preserved guns, then there are those who want to test it and document their actual intended function. Props.
and destroy it by accident 😂
And some pointed it directly at their face when it didn't work... Fear is one thing. Ignorance is something else
@@daviddiggens8841if you're talking about this video, the barrel was gone. This gun can no longer function.
@@daviddiggens8841It is literally not even a gun anymore. This is like taking a handgun, removing the slide and barrel and then crying about flagging. It's literally just parts at that point lmao
there's shooting an older preserved gun that basically functions like any other guns, and then there's shit like this which functions completely differently and perhaps merits more respect
That is definitely the scariest 'gun' I have ever seen demonstrated, rather you than me mate! It was so inconsistent and evidently unreliable but cool as hell, I will not forget that little rocket zipping off into the boonies with it's crazy spinning action. Wouldn't want to rely on it in a conflict though . . .
The only bullet that can pass through something and regain it's speed. That's kinda dope.
Who would have thought years after Vietnam, another Medal of Honor recipient would be holding a gyrojet.
Thank you Brandon, for your service
@Grastiars1 still can't believe the way he got his purple heart. Forty-six landmines is impressive
@@just_that_crazy517920 to 1 is long odds, even if they were orphans.
Debatably especially if they were orphans, they don't have anything to lose
@@MSgt4246 Everyone knows it was sixty-nine.
@@liverworm9917nice
The barrel was held in with a tab of metal, some glue, and a dream.
"Sometimes failures are cooler than successes"
@BrandonHerrera out of all the Gyrojet video's I have watched I would say about the 10-15 video's, you had the best shooting rockets ever to date! I would normally see them just flop on the ground after leaving the tube or barrel, not go off, just fly in any direction, barely have enough power to make it 5-19 yards and so on! Yours had power, pop, full ignition and actually hit their targets and they were fast and hard hitting! I have NEVER seen any other Gyrojet rocket ammo fire, fly or hit as good as yours did!
That first shot of Brandon firing the gyrojet literally looks like something from a cheesy action movie where they didn't even try to make the guns realistic, but the fact it's real makes it so much cooler. Ballistic High Speed was such a good choice of collab for this video, this is likely the only high quality, high speed footage of one of these firing that exists so definitely one for the history books.
Tony interns next post - BRANDON HERRERA MAKES AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE. The past few weeks on X especially yesterday have been painfully pathetic and hilarious.. The poor intern will need therapy forever 🤣🤣
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I already made this post and said the b word instead of "explosive device" yt nuked it in seconds 🤣🤣
Just wait till he finds out about the toob
It's called Twitter
The post they made was even worse than i could have imagined 🤣🤣
That slo mo video is amazing, just beautiful ! Thank you.
I havn't seen this mentioned, but Dick Thompson of MACVSOG mentioned in episode 205 of the Jocko Podcast that he briefly carried a Gyrojet in Vietnam, and recounts attempting to use it to capture an EPOW, but it malfunctioned. He brings it up around the 2 hour 32 minute mark, if anyone is interested.
That legitimately has to be some of the most gruesome injuries.
Not only do you get shot, you more than likely get burned INSIDE the wound. God, that's horrifying to think about.
Cauterization might actually be helpful.
@@MR-yo1xj Helpful but more hurtful, lol
@@MR-yo1xj That's not how cauterization works. They're just straight up internal burn wounds bruh lol
If you use it for hunting, the game might be cooked after you shoot it.
@@phlodelFlamethrower hunting ftw
This is one of the coolest fucking videos Brandon will probably ever make. Literally documenting history. As unreal as it is that he got one AND shot it, deciding to high-speed this will make this such a timeless video for this weapons history.
I agree! I have known about the Gyrojet for many, many years but have never seen a video like this that shows exactly how it worked.
I nearly died laughing at how goofy the slow motion was for the barrel ejection
Back in the day they could of only dreamed of having the slo-mo video reviews of their product for R and D too.
The gyrojet was designed initially for space combat. If fired in the vacuum of space then cooling wouldn't be an issue.
Also: the barrel coming out is a feature, not a bug. You don't want the wielder to have sustained burns on their hands.
The Gyro Jet Gun is amazing AF! Thanks for this video. Somewhere in storage I have a complete Gyro Jet Signal kit. It was given to me by a very close friend (RIP Bill ) . Cheers
I love that yeeting the entire barrel still reset the trigger/hammer properly
Mission Failed Successfully.
For a politician, a year to complete a promise is actually insanely fast. To come through at all is a huge defeat in itself.
*Feat. Lol.
@@theglitchcounter264 Typical politicians always lie, so if they incidentally don't lie, they becoming less politicians and therefore defeated.
@@theglitchcounter264I think he meant to say “da feat”? As in “yo dawg, that was da feat!”
@@scottydu81 lmfao
That was insane w/ the barrel coming out.
I can safely say I have NEVER seen that happen on a firearm before.
Awesome footage 👍
That is the base teck to develop the Space Marines's gun in Warhammer 40k !
"In apeture science. We fire the whole bullet and the barrel, thats 250% more bullet, per bullet!"
i was looking for this comment
Came here for that comment!
i love how even after a traumatic event they're still able to make jokes, i love the post traumatic growth
Demmo ranch must be watching with shaky hands…
yeah, that bit was probably his idea as well
I think you need to talk to your wife...
That farting gel... 10:50
And that flying barrel is gold.
When would you ever shoot your enemy with a barrel? This is a once in a weapons lifetime chance.
This was the coolest ballistic high speed footage EVER. Talk about squeezing every drop of production value out of a $200 projectile 👏👏👏👏👏🙌
We got every aspect of _Far Cry 2_ covered already:
* Normal firing sequence.
* "Jamming" by destroying a rocket before it leaves the weapon.
* Catastrophic (and totally survivable) malfunction with _the entire barrel_ flying out of the gun.
Glad that we saw the Gyrojet in action, nevertheless.
Another gamer cringetard
Hey Brandon! Thanks heaps for using our Rocketman cover!!!!!!
its really great!
@@oersza Thanks!
So y'all were in the studio warming up & then did a rally cry of "GYROJET!" before hitting the red button, right?! It does sound like a vote for gyrojet soundtrack is a vote for Brandon Herrera 😉
@theshortfallmusic you should totally get approval for a photo of the barrel leaving this gun or Brandon holding it (as albumart) if you release a physical EP. include a QR code for this video on the back of the album
You could also include this as a single albumart too. Super cool video for sure. Awesome your music made it. This vid landed on 2 playlists
Happy 2024
I feel like if they waited 50 years for technological advancement, and fixed the reliability, and this would be a good competitor for modern weaponry
Man, you actually got the high-speed footage of the gun failing spectacularly! Absolutely epic!
Brandon you missed the PERFECT opportunity to say that the barrel flew out because the designer didn’t know to get his start in gunsmithing or weapons technology with SDI I was WAITING for the setup
But clearly the weapons designer knew exactly what they were doing, Brandon just accidentally activated the "Extreme Prejudice" firing mode, for when you really want to destroy whatever you're pointing the barrel at.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 "whatever you're pointing the barrel at." doubleplusgoodsay
A missed opportunity indeed, still a great vid
"Here's some PDF's... that'll be $10,000."
Really missed an opportunity for an SDI ad when he said "we can rebuild her, we have the technology"
Yeah, usually he NEVER misses an opportunity to smoothly segue into an ad. They must not be “on” this week.
I knew something was missing. Now I know what. Though, now I need to rewatch because I think he was wearing a SDI T-shirt for at least part of the range footage
@@spudgamer6049he was right at the end, likely throughout all range time
I like how the "bullet" when it got halfway through the ballistic gel...it righted itself and fired like a javelin
Being 64 and having read gun mags since 1972, I remember them. Back then, as a 12 year old, understanding basic firearm fundamentals, I was like...why?
One thing to consider is that most rounds hit a target and lose a lot of their momentum. This is a ROCKET. You can see it on one of the slo-mo's the rocket correcting itself and getting ready to go some more. These don't lose "focus"!!!!
"I have been launched, I most go until fuel is depleted" -- There is just a course correction.
I kind of want to see what happens when they impact body armor now.
The rocket knows where it is, and it knows where it wants to be.
What surprised me about the gyro jet is that there’s a Carbine version and an underwater version called the Lancejet. They look amazing.
I had to look those up, very very cool looking, wonder if anyone could get one as I only seen a picture of them in the national firearms museum 🤔
On a sidenote: how about finding and testing an honest to God Russkie underwater assault rifle? That would be epic! Do the high-speed camera guys have scuba gear?
Unbelievable video. The camera work is first rate and Brandon is super funny. Well worth watching.
I'd be afraid that when that round tumbles it turns all the way around back toward me while the rockets are still burning.
17:53 made this for me. Never, not once, have I seen a barrel-missile shoot down range in slow motion. So glad you weren’t hurt!!!
This channel might be the first one that has gyrojet squib load and the first one with unique barrel malfunction, *RECORDED* , which in a way is fricking amazing, Brandon and the boys become the first one in history to record them.
They did indeed.
Demos video?
Never climb into your BattleMech cockpit without your trusty Gyrojet "Cone" rifle as a backup weapon in case your 'Mech gets blown out from under you and you find yourself Dispossessed! I remember first encountering the idea of these things in the 1st Edition _MechWarrior_ RPG book, and in a few of the _BattleTech_ novels. I was a little shocked to later discover that they were actually real weapons. In the alternate timeline of _BattleTech_ (which diverged from the real world timeline some time in the '80s) development continued on Gyrojet weapons until they became a mature, if still fairly obscure, technology. Most people continued to use standard slug-throwers, but laser weaponry also existed for those with more money,. Needlers were also a common weapon type for soft unarmored targets (Needlers fire clouds of flechettes that are carved from blocks of ballistic polymer the moment they are fired. The ammunition consists of blocks of plastic, and propellant charges.)
The barrel flying out makes perfect sense when the alternative is a rocket burning your hands and face for 10 seconds
I am not too surprised that the barrel took off, the Gyrojet pistols are built VERY cheap, the body of the gun is two pieces of pressed zinc alloy, and the barrel is a smooth steel tube, the thing feels like a toy in your hand.
The expectation is that the gun won't have to withstand any real pressure, and maybe that was more realistic when the ammo was fresh, but this is now 60 year old solid rocket fuel, and the ammunition was noted even at the time for having poor consistency.
So a gun made outta cheap ass materials but has ammo costing the same as my grocery list, makes sense.
@@lonestarlopez713must've been cheaper when first made, current price so high more due to rarity.
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul Exactly, stupid guys just dont understand the mening of supply and demand🤷🏼♂️
Wish someone would try to make a new, more serious and expensive version of the gyrojet then
@@lonestarlopez713how many people are you feeding 😂 (not to be rude)
Ballistic Highspeed was such a good choice for this colab. I'm glad to see them popping up more in the gun-tuber space. The footage they manage to capture is more jaw dropping than high budget CGI.
That’s because the cameras they use are extremely high-budget.
ok, i am just happy that you are alive, mate.
that malfunction could get a lot worse.
The probability of this gun seeing any real world use is slim but just imagine being on the receiving end of this gun expecting to be shot but instead you’re impaled with a burning hot rod 💀
One of the reasons that it failed was the difficulty of manufacturing the ammo. Specifically, drilling the four angled venturi at the base of the rocket. But with the advances in manufacturing techniques, it could be done much easier and cheaper today. Someone needs to bring back the Gyrojet! Are you listening Brandon???
AK-GyroJet coming soon
Oh no… no no no. We’re not going through this again. We’re going to have GTA 6 before we have an AK-50, and you already want him to make a fucking rocket pistol too? No.
These things basically use a solid rocket fuel. That stuff does not age well, and is extremely susceptible to cracking, especially when dropped or even jostling during shipping. If those are 60 year old rockets, I’m very surprised that even one out of 5 works. That said, it would be pretty easy, with today’s technology, to make more. I definitely wouldn’t want to get hit with one, especially at close range, as the hot gasses, will cause air bolus! Awfully nice of the rocket to cauterize the wound for you, on its way through!
I believe the CZcams channel Backyard Ballistics is/was working on that exact thing. He's even posted some videos of him testing propellant formulations and casing variants for a modern take on the gyrojet!
@@TheBauwssss That dude must really love failure.
Didn’t watch this when it came out but glad I came back to it. This is a great video
Not only pieces of history but they are pieces of something else. Great radio good camera work thanks gentlemen.