Blowing things skyhigh...

[Dr Jekyll 0]

I've seen a lot of mentions over time about how people have observed varkious vehicles like trabants, jeeps and even choppers disappearing in the skies and then smash into the ground besides them or create or smoke cloud and thundering boom in the distance. Many chopper pilots (lor would-be chopper pilots) also reported being shot upon with various objects including the aforementioned trabant. Demolitionists sure are creative these days!

Well, I took it upon myself to see just how high these thing could get. Here's some reports from my testing facility on some barren desert island.

Note: I got some pictures to accompany the reports, but are unable to find a place to host them

Test #1: "Look out! It's a bird, It's a plane! No, It's a Trabant!!!

Object to be blown up: Trabant

Explosives to be used: 3 satchel charges

Way of procedure: All charges where place in front of the object, which was then moved on top of them.

Result: Object arched nicely into the air and touched down in the desert roughly a kilometre away.

Test #2: "The people's airplane!"

Object to be blown up: Trabant

Explosives to be used: 20 satchel charges

Way of procedure: Same as Test #1

Result: Safety distance was miscalculated, observer died in observation bunker. Object was never seen around the blast site again.

Test #3: "It's a Home Run"

Object to be blown up: M1A1 Battle Tank

Explosives to be used: Roughly 20 Mines

Way of procedure: Mines was created under the tank, explosion would be instant.

Result: Object arched nicely out over the ocean and then disappeared from view, distance was rougly 1,5 kilometre.

Test #4: "It's out of here!"

Object to be blown up: M1A1 Battle Tank

Explosives to be used: 50 Mines

Way of procedure: Same as Test #3

Result: Object was blown roughly 2,5 kilometre away. At arrivial to estimated impact site no tank was found. Incident linked to sighting of strange object in the air at the time of explosion.

Test #5: "Entering the space age!"

Object to be blown up: M1A1 Battle Tank

Explosives to be used: 80 Mines

Way of procedure: Same as Test #3

Result: Object disappeared above the clouds, was not seen again, presumed to have entered orbit.

Test #6: "We need nukes instead of this!"

Object to be blown up: M1A1 Battle Tank

Explosives to be used: 200 Mines

Way of procedure: Same as Test #3

Result: At moment of detonation, framerate dropped to -1, leaving us with still images of "a helluva lot of smoke and dust". We are thus unable to say if object actually left the ground or was just disintegrated in the blast. In both cases, object is most likely "blown to hell!"

[Chopper415 0]

LOL this is a man with a pyro problem

In all of your experimenting have you ever discovered what the relative explosive strengths of mines vs. satchel charges are? I'd be interested to know which one has more killing power, and it might even lend some point to your explosive sense of fun

[Chopper415 0]

Oh yeah - in test #4 how do you kow that the impact point was 2.5 klicks away if there was nothing there except farmers reporting UFO's?

[X-ander-EPP- 1]

VERY FUNNY!!

[Dr Jekyll 0]

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Pictures taken from the blast site just before it touch down behind a hill.

Also, there's no farmer on the island, if there was, they would have been blown away by now.

[Damage Inc 0]

Satchels have more power than mines.