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Bullet Impacts in Super-Slow Motion

By John Farrier in Video Clips, Weapons & War on Oct 9, 2009 at 3:12 pm



(YouTube Link)

This 10-minute video shows the impact of bullets on various targets at 1 million frames per second. It was made by Werner Mehl, an engineer noted for his development of high-speed photography:

Germany’s Werner Mehl is the talented engineer who created the PVM-21 infrared chronograph, in many respects the most sophisticated ballistic speed-measuring system currently available to the general public. Werner runs a company, Kurzzeitmesstechnik, which specializes in high-tech ballistic measuring systems and ultra-high-speed photography. Werner has engineered camera and lighting systems that can literally track a bullet in flight, millimeter by millimeter, with eye-popping resolution. Werner employs digital cameras that record up to 1 million frames per second, with effective shutter speeds as fast as 1.5 nano-seconds. The videos produced by Werner’s systems are amazing. Below are two short samples. The first shows a 7mm bullet penetrating cardboard. Note you can clearly see the engraving of the rifling on the bullet.

Link via Hell in a Handbasket | Werner Mehl’s Website


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  1. BenZarius
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Man, awesome video. Pity about the giant watermark in the middle of the vid. :(

  2. Kaz
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    I can't believe I spent 10 min looking at that... :P

  3. Edward
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    The engineering information in this ten minute video could be used to earn a PhD! I have never seen anything like it.

  4. valves manufacturer
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    I think it's not a trouble with this small impacts,If I want to kill something, I won't believe this will impact me.

  5. kris
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    I would have thoroughly enjoyed the video if not for the giant watermark. Trying to watch everything happening behind it while it remained stationary was not only annoying, but straining, and now my eyes feel funny. Cool video, though. Thanks, neatorama!

  6. Christophe
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Looks like one of those night clubs videos

  7. Technologik
    Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    THAT WAS FRIKIN' AMAZING. YES I'M YELLING. I love how the lead just liquefies from friction. Mindblowing.

  8. Ali S.
    Oct 10th, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Love the choice of music it took the surrealism of this video to another level...it was hypnotizing to say the least. Oh, and a quick question what kind of bullet was that they used at 4:29? The flat headed one? Never seen a bullet like that before.

  9. goodjonx
    Oct 10th, 2009 at 4:21 am

    That flat projectile was a diabolo, an air gun pellet..

  10. Skipweasel
    Oct 10th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    Specifically a wadcutter pellet. The diabolo term is applied to all pellets with that wasp-waisted shape - the back is hollow which allows the skirt to flare out to seal the bore properly and also helps by keeping weight forward of the centre of drag to improve stability. You can get domed, pointed and even hollow nosed, as well as flat fronted.

    The flat-fronted variety are used to punch very clean holes in paper targets to reduce ambiguity when scoring. As you can see from the film - they work, too!

  11. dooflotchie
    Oct 10th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Oh wow. I can't even think of a word to describe how cool that was.

  12. Foreigner1
    Oct 11th, 2009 at 4:08 am

    So, now I know from slo-mo-close-up what the bullets do that I shoot with.

    What amazes me from the clips where you see the same kind of shot over and over again (like where they hit a bullet from the side, or where ty hit an edge with the half of the bullet) is that nowadays they can control a shot so accurately as they do.

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