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1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit

Matt Rece · 15.6M views · 2009-09-29 · 10:00

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Overview

Ten minutes of ultra-slow-motion footage of bullet impacts filmed at about one million frames per second by Werner Mehl of Kurzzeit. It includes hollow points in ballistics gel and impacts on glass.

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Used as the go-to example of genuine one-million-fps footage and of bullet impact physics.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2009–2023

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jws · 2009-10 · Recommendation

Youtube video: direct link... [VIDEO] The watermarked website is a wreck. More than just bullet impacts. At around 2:00 I think it is showing a BB sized object hitting a bullet from a perpendicular trajectory. At around 3:00 there is some nice bullet into bulletproof glass action. 5:50 has shockwave formation in liquids. Back of envelope calculations suggest that most of this is at less than 1,000,000 frames per second, but the slowest of the slow might be at a million.

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genmud · 2023-07 · Reference

Also, depending on how the bullets get caught at the range (shredded tires vs sand vs steel backstops), they tend to produce a lots of fine lead dust[1]. [1] - [VIDEO]

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startupfounder · 2012-08 · Reference

True, but if you can do 1m fps on earth[1] and the MRO travels at a speed of 133,879.68 inches/second then you could take 7.4693934 pictures per inch even if you had a rolling "scanning" shutter. I know that would be way to much data for them to process, but for the 172 seconds from parachute deployment to touchdown you could have one amazing high speed film. I am sure NASA can fund a high speed camera for MRO... or do we need to crowdfund that one as well... [1] [VIDEO]

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