Bazooka vs. Bulletproof Glass
A Hey! Spring of Trivia special aired on Japanese TV last night, performing crazy experiments in the field of trivia. Perhaps the coolest segment from last night’s show was a test to determine if bulletproof glass could stop a bazooka.
The show’s producers were able to find both a bulletproof glass company and an army willing to participate in the experiment. The only catch was that the show could not reveal the name of the glass company or the name of the country whose military had consented to the test. While their names are not directly revealed in the video, there was no attempt made to hide the identities of the individuals or the languages they spoke, so it really wouldn’t be difficult to find the names of the company and country in question.
Instead of a WW2 era bazooka, a modern rocket launcher was used: the Soviet-build RPG-7. A firing team was positioned 100 meters from the target, which was a panel of bulletproof glass 5-centimeters thick. Here is the result:
Result: The rocket punched a hole in the glass, tearing off the arm of the dummy in the process. Looks like bulletproof glass ain’t rocket-proof glass.
But wait! The glass company’s general manager was prepared for just such an event, so he brought another, stronger sheet of bulletproof glass with him. This one was 10-centimeters thick, doubled the thickness of the glass that failed the first test. Let’s see how this one works:
Result: The RPG round fails to penetrate the glass and the glass company is declared the winner. (However, if you plan on using this glass, don’t stand too close to it. The shock of the rocket hitting the glass was enough to rip the dummy’s arm off.)
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I was literally jumping up and down last night when I discovered this special was on. Does anyone know if this means Trivia no Izumi is making a comeback?
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That was worse than a Family Guy skit.
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Did anybody here notice that in the second test the rocket didn’t really hit the glass?
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I’m guessing the army was Thai, and the glass from Pilkington. Either way, pretty awesome, that. I’m surprised the second did not go through the plywood frame…
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it seems the second one hit the frame plus the glass,
the glass obviously r not limited to just the window area, they extend much further around the visible frame so a more accurate idea of where it was hit was the footage shown of the glass panel removed and the rocket did hit it… lower than the intended area but it hit directly.
depending on what the mock panel is made of it may or may not influenced the result, but the footage from the front area also showed that the panel over the glass is extremely thin so it probably would not affect it by much.
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after watching it again i finally understand… the glass is actually placed in a vertical rectangular layout…
the mount for the glass extends from the visible transparent window and towards the bottom.
so the second rocket in fact hit the glass directly dead on with nothing in between… however unlike the top half of the glass, the bottom half of the glass have the frame behind it and thus appear to be part of the frame because obviously if u place a transparent glass over a solid object then u will have difficulty seeing the glass. The rocket itself however hit the glass directly dead on.
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Now lets see an AT-4 take on the glass.
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if ur using frag HE rockets… the result will probably be the same no matter what light anti tank weapon u use, similarly if u use a HEAT rocket it’ll most likely punch right through regardless of what launcher used.
still, that’s quite impressive… withstanding a direct hit of the rocket and the HE frag explosion is no small feat for bullet proof glass.
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there was no explosives in both of them just the rocket going very fast the fire was probly just leftover rocket propelant if it waz explosive it would have leveled the hole thing
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