greetings fellow nerds this is jeff of taofledermaus today's suggestion comes
directly from Daniel Taylor who wanted to see if tungsten is bulletproof this
is definitely one of the most expensive targets we bought this couldn't have
been done without you patreon supporters thank you very much
let's take a look at this mighty tungsten cube which has no purpose at
all other than a cool thing to display on your desk has a weird little plastic
spacer in there for some reason I don't know what that's for
but as you can see that's what you get for about a hundred and fifty dollars
it's kind of hard to explain how heavy this small cube feels it only is about
forty millimeters by 40 millimeters but it's unusually dense I wanted to see
what it would do in my giant five-pound block of silly putty and after about
half an hour we learned that silly putty is pink on the inside I guess there's
only so much you could do with a big chunk of tungsten but I thought that was
kind of neat it's been a while since I've done a time-lapse like that this
measures one and a half inches by one and a half inches and then they went all
metric II and call it a 1 kilogram cube so there you go good afternoon self
later folks Jeff and Officer Greg back out here with
you on a nice sunny California day here in central California today it's 108
degrees and for those of you foreigners who speak Klingon that's about 42
degrees Celsius hey today we're out here shooting a little block of tungsten that
Jeff picked up this little awfully heavy solid tungsten and those of you who know
anything about this element know that it's a very brittle metal so we're going
to try it with a variety of different calibers we're going to start out with a
22 out of the Ruger Mark 3 we're going to move all the way up nine millimeter
4045 all the way up to the AR team and we have an SKS over there and
we're also going to give it a try with the weather BPA four five nine shotgun
shooting some standard old one ounce foster slugs see if we can shatter the
thing or if it will make holes so more predictions right down here right there
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yep since no one has ever shot one of these tungsten cubes with a bullet
before we had nothing to go by I thought there might be a possibility that a 22
could actually chip and damage this cube quite easily but as you can see most of
the damage was done to the bullet and not to the cube there is a slight
impression there from the hollow point from the bullet okay 9-millimeter
hardball round ball non holla boy okay whatever you're ready smacked into the
top left did not dent the the tongue set oh that's a good sign it's because
hitting that edge where you think would be most fragile yeah it didn't even
affect it can tell there by the lines on the edge it didn't even ship it one bit
there's a little bit of an irregularity there but I think that is just a bullet
rather they're going to bolt outwards yeah and then look at the fragmentation
woody shot yeah look at the bottom there I don't know if this is going to last
very much longer so if somebody's shooting at you and you use a tungsten
cube to defend yourself know that you're going to get a lot of bullets falling
I've definitely got a best date out of like 50 of those things yeah why don't
cops make their residence let me tell you this thing is what would you say
about five pounds you know it's like it's a kilo so it's
like to point to something well that's super heavy
you made a vest out of that thing you got problems yeah especially if you go
in a lake hahaha the 9-millimeter bullet is almost four times the weight of a 22
yet it's going about the same velocity and even though it struck the corner of
the cube where we suspected at either weakest the cube had no problem again
defeating this boy 45 ACP okay whenever you're ready
keep going there you go keep going hit lower left
corner we're trying to get them on the edge here for you guys so you hit the
center of it so that you can see there I meant to do it whether it chips or not
but that being the weakest point on the whole cube it still did not chew their
poor little cone thing is I think it's done
darn it this 45 ACP bullet weighs twice as much as our nine-millimeter bullet
and it's traveling around 890 feet per second again the bullet strikes the
corner of the cube the cube just slaps it off and most of the damage occurs to
the bullet and our little plastic cone
ready I think yeah I get it threw it off the table yeah only about eight feet
ready now we're getting some major velocity this bullet is traveling almost
3,000 feet per second or about 915 meters per second you'll notice that the
bullet impacts and disintegrates long before the cube even starts moving so
clamping down the cube would make very little difference oh the first real
significant damage yeah actually made a little divot sort of
like the lead plate that we shoot with the slugs but I would have thought this
stuff would have shattered I really thought it easy it's a very shallow
little Dimmit you could probably see there if I turn some angles there but
still that thing held up to an ar-15 around shooting
five six what's next you threw this off the table about what you say eight feet
maybe sure landed in the dirt and so we've got next for you the SKS shooting
a seven sixty by thirty nine okay I'm ready yeah okay this seven six two by
thirty-nine bullet is more than twice the weight of our five five six bullet
but only traveling at about twenty two hundred feet per second instead of three
thousand feet per second and it appears because of that backspin the cube is
actually affected by the Magnus effect is actually climbing a little bit
believe it or not that's bizarre remarkably the cube is still in one
piece it looks like the five five six round so far has done the most damage
making a much larger pit than our seven sixty by thirty nine shots slug doesn't
destroy it I don't know what will fit pika oh we forgot the 50 Cal okay I'm
ready woah crap I think you hit it this one ounce LED
slug was traveling at 1600 feet per second and it's delivering almost 2500
foot-pounds of energy yep the tungsten cube survives the cube was thrown close
to 30 feet away and we had no problem finding it luckily I didn't go in the
water I thought for sure a lead slug one-out slug would damage the heck out
of that thing so it hit it right there like a ship's bow you can see that
actually it was this way let's get it straight you can see that one piece of
it went off this side and most of the Smalling went off to the left but I
don't know if you can see this on camera that little edge right there is a little
bit deformed so that's what is it is yeah let's look hit right I thought it
would chip the heck out of that thing get right on that that nice edge didn't
do that is some tough stuff no kiddin let's shoot it with another slug man we
got one more slug want to go dead so we go on yes
shoot the corner of it we can position it
okay one more slug I'm ready whew I really thought that the cube would have
been in pieces long before we got to the shotgun slugs after all we all know
someone who has a tungsten ring that is shattered when they dropped it however
when tungsten is in its pure form like we see here it's actually a little bit
malleable it's not brittle at all okay good shot of there pretty tough stuff
there no kiddin we should be building best out of those okay melted plastic on
there what's that bro that's a Coriolis effect Oh areolas effect you have to
pull the plastic out of the atmosphere concentrate this on the picking and
Kubik so check it on the internet strip oh there you go
much more bulletproof than I imagined no kidding the bullets magic bulletproof
cube yep when we first measures this tungsten cubit weight 1009 grams
after we shot it it still weighs 1009 gram I hope you enjoyed this video
thanks for watching koto
okay I'm ready Oh