I often ask myself why impacts from rockets, missiles or grenades often look like a small explosion without a lot of destruction the moment they hit something , like seen here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riF1szCa6Ho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riF1szCa6Ho)
And in the end the aftermaths of something like that are waaay bigger and more severe than seen in the second of the impact. Does it have to do because buildings collaps some time after being hit by a weapon?
If I see videos of explosions I think: Ok wow, luckily the explosion wasn’t that big so nothing bad must happened.
And then later when seeing the aftermath in the news I’m like: FUCK, how did the building completely vanish?
In: 9
I was shocked the first time I saw a grenade explode. When I first joined the Army we had to throw two live hand grenades in Basic Training. After we hard thrown them, we got to go into a bunker with blast-proof glass and watch others toss theirs, since we obviously couldn’t watch our own explode. I had been raised on 80s action movies, where Chuck Norris would toss a hand grenade into a window and *huge* fireballs erupted out of every door and window before the walls blew out.
Imagine my disappointment when I saw the real thing. There *might* have been a *very* brief flash of fire where the grenade had landed, but I might have imagined it. In reality there was a grenade on the ground, then a puff of smoke and dirt spreading away. If I hadn’t heard the blast, felt the shockwave, and heard the shrapnel hitting window I would have thought it was a dud.
Major ordinance was a disappointment, too. Again, 80s action movies all had the sound effect of an explosion having a double bang, followed by an echoing rumble. In reality it sounds like King Kong taking a single whack at a snare drum. One loud *crack!* and maybe a bit of bass reverberation depending on the environment. Nothing like the movies.
I often ask myself why impacts from rockets, missiles or grenades often look like a small explosion without a lot of destruction the moment they hit something , like seen here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riF1szCa6Ho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riF1szCa6Ho)
And in the end the aftermaths of something like that are waaay bigger and more severe than seen in the second of the impact. Does it have to do because buildings collaps some time after being hit by a weapon?
If I see videos of explosions I think: Ok wow, luckily the explosion wasn’t that big so nothing bad must happened.
And then later when seeing the aftermath in the news I’m like: FUCK, how did the building completely vanish?
In: 9
I was shocked the first time I saw a grenade explode. When I first joined the Army we had to throw two live hand grenades in Basic Training. After we hard thrown them, we got to go into a bunker with blast-proof glass and watch others toss theirs, since we obviously couldn’t watch our own explode. I had been raised on 80s action movies, where Chuck Norris would toss a hand grenade into a window and *huge* fireballs erupted out of every door and window before the walls blew out.
Imagine my disappointment when I saw the real thing. There *might* have been a *very* brief flash of fire where the grenade had landed, but I might have imagined it. In reality there was a grenade on the ground, then a puff of smoke and dirt spreading away. If I hadn’t heard the blast, felt the shockwave, and heard the shrapnel hitting window I would have thought it was a dud.
Major ordinance was a disappointment, too. Again, 80s action movies all had the sound effect of an explosion having a double bang, followed by an echoing rumble. In reality it sounds like King Kong taking a single whack at a snare drum. One loud *crack!* and maybe a bit of bass reverberation depending on the environment. Nothing like the movies.
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