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?
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Well for starters those are already relatively small explosions from small artillery or rockets, but the real reason you think they look small is that Hollywood has fooled you. When you see an explosion in a movie or on TV, it’s a giant fireball, right? That looks impressive and cool on screen, but that’s not what actual high explosives look like. High explosives like the ones used in actual weapons produce most of their destruction from the shockwave, but that doesn’t look cool and impressive so Hollywood uses gasoline or some other fuel, which makes a big fireball but not an actual detonation.
tl;dr – movies have tricked you into thinking that explosions are giant fireballs, but the actual explosives used in munitions are meant to do maximum damage, not look cool, and don’t produce giant fireballs.
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
Well for starters those are already relatively small explosions from small artillery or rockets, but the real reason you think they look small is that Hollywood has fooled you. When you see an explosion in a movie or on TV, it’s a giant fireball, right? That looks impressive and cool on screen, but that’s not what actual high explosives look like. High explosives like the ones used in actual weapons produce most of their destruction from the shockwave, but that doesn’t look cool and impressive so Hollywood uses gasoline or some other fuel, which makes a big fireball but not an actual detonation.
tl;dr – movies have tricked you into thinking that explosions are giant fireballs, but the actual explosives used in munitions are meant to do maximum damage, not look cool, and don’t produce giant fireballs.
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