Shooting a car with a medieval cannon

[ultra_bright]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKowzoEsdp4[/media]

I wonder how fast that cannonball is going seeing as how it cut clean through it.

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[Mugofdoom]

This is Sensationalist Headlines.

Cool video though. We should ban armor piercing cannons.

[ultra_bright]

Dammit....wrong forum section again.

Can a mod please move this to the video section?

[editline]18th March 2013[/editline]

I usually have like a million tabs open

[Joazzz]

amazing how the door just... ripples when the ball hits at 3:50

[DrLuckyLuke]

[QUOTE=Joazzz;39963651]amazing how the door just... ripples when the ball hits at 3:50[/QUOTE]

I think it's more amazing that the impact is so extreme, that a spark forms.

[eddy-tt-]

I've actually done something similar to this but with a [URL="http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1295924631.jpg"]5 pounder English civil war cannon[/URL] which we have in the garage (one on the right, left is my godfathers and the sister barrel) and a ford transit packed with crates full of concrete.

It went through the van basically.

[RR_Raptor65]

Not even a medieval cannon. But these are:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHATnz107hQ[/media]

[abcpea2]

stupid overproduced video which could have been 5 seconds long

[Unit-05]

Relevant interests, this one shows alot of power these cannons have. They filled the van with truck rims which you see them bounce around inside when the cannon ball rips through. I lol'd at 0:33 and they shoot the engine block at 2:25.
[video=youtube;oV52QeXkgzI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV52QeXkgzI[/video]

[pr00ch]

I thought it's going to be a expensive as shit car being thrown by a medieval catapult

That would be awesome

[Nikita]

It's amazing when you think about how much more of a punch a modern cannon with a ballistic projectile packs.

Just a metal tube with a small explosion in it. A metal tube with a small explosion that can literally make a straight-through hole through your entire house.

[Coldmute]

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;39963510][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKowzoEsdp4[/media]

I wonder how fast that cannonball is going seeing as how it cut clean through it.[/QUOTE]I believe during their research for the pirate special, the Mythbusters came up with somewhere around 900 feet per second.

[editline]19th March 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=Nikita;39967665]It's amazing when you think about how much more of a punch a modern cannon with a ballistic projectile packs.

Just a metal tube with a small explosion in it. A metal tube with a small explosion that can literally make a straight-through hole through your entire house.[/QUOTE]Something the Mystbusters are also familiar with.

And since this is apparently a legitimate news story, I'm eager to hear what North Korea has to say in response to this. This may be what finally pushes them over the edge.

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=abcpea2;39964537]stupid overproduced video which could have been 5 seconds long[/QUOTE]

if it was 5 seconds it'd be boring and wouldn't appeal to anyone, i skipped through most of it and just saw the slo-mo replays and the aftermath