Machinegun vs. Katana

[ShangTang]

Awesome video pitting .50 calibur bullets against a Katana:

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/608

[EeSang]

Jesus christ that's awesome. First few swords were "normal" swords that were taken apart in the first hit or so. The last one was a Japanese Katana, that took 7 hits to take break.

It was freaking cutting the bullets in half.

[Kanaric]

they ARE well made.

I wonder if those other swords though were equally well made for their respective culture or were they just ripoffs?

[Kinjiss]

what other swords? in the video there was only the Katana...

[IronBrig4]

That is incredible. They sure don't make things like they used to.

[Kanaric]

i didn't see the video since my isp is annoying but

First few swords were "normal" swords that were taken apart in the first hit or so.

made me think there was more

[HorseArcher]

anyone speaks japanese? i want to know what they are saying. I know they were saying something while the slow-mo as the katana split the bullets in half.

Now remember now, that was a large 50.cal machine gun and that thing is extremely powerful, with a good burst, you can actually cut a man in half and shoot through a humvee very easily.

[fallingstar]

Strange not only japanese, but korean subtitles also show up after the japanese subtitles. The white bit must be korean if I am correct and the orange subitle is japanese yes? No?

[[ROK]CompanionOfficer]

White subtitles are indeed Korean.
They say nothing much, just that "Katana is broken and lets see what happened through 1/700 slow-mo cam." and "Machine gun vs Katana - Machine gun wins"
BTW, Katana IS really well made, I'm quite surprised

[Belisarius]

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/408/


Another cool video!

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Awesome video pitting .50 calibur bullets against a Katana:

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/608

That is amazing.
I knew they were well done but damn.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

At the beginning the narrator says "which will win a Katana or a machine gun"

"The Katana was broken"
"How did it break lets look at what happened using a super slow motion camera"
"First bullet"
"Second Bullet" (background people: wow the second bullet was really a clean cut)
"Third Bullet" (background people: it cut it in half!)
"Fourth bullet" (background people: it exploded!)
"Fifth Bullet" (not too sure what they are saying int he bacjground)
"Sixth Bullet" (background people: waaa wooo it cut it it cut it)
"Seventh Bulelt" (backgroun people: ahhh it broke!)

cut to the man in white

"amazing!"
"ahh it was torn up badly"
Announcer: "The katana was broken on the 7th bullet"
Man in white: "It is kind of sad it was destroyed but it sure put up a really good fight"

This is from a Japanese show called "Trivia" it is on every Wednesday night at 9:00pm. The last really neat thing they shwoed was that if you put a blastic 500ml bottle of Ginger Ale in the freezer for 90 minutes and then removed it, it would start to turn to ice the minute you opened it outside of the freezer! Sounds crazy but it worked right on the camera.


Hope this helps guys

[Dan_Grr]

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/408/


Another cool video!

The man is a bit sluggish with the sword.

[Shadowflare]

That's wicked awesome. Sure, the machine gun won eventually, but if one were precise enough, they could slice about nine bullets and then carve up the guy with the gun. In theory, it's plausible, though you could only do it once and then die horribly if there were other guns trained on you. Of course, you would then have to worry about shrapnel and bullet slices impaling you. Best idea is to just pack heat in the first place. Nevertheless, I am impressed with the workmanship on those swords.

And did anyone else check out the other videos on that site? The UFO one was a little freaky. I mean, those are experiemental US military craft from what I know of it, but he can summon them at will? That's insane stuff. 0_o

[ShangTang]

Now let's throw a human head at it! :d

[fallingstar]

That's wicked awesome. Sure, the machine gun won eventually, but if one were precise enough, they could slice about nine bullets and then carve up the guy with the gun. In theory, it's plausible, though you could only do it once and then die horribly if there were other guns trained on you. Of course, you would then have to worry about shrapnel and bullet slices impaling you. Best idea is to just pack heat in the first place. Nevertheless, I am impressed with the workmanship on those swords.

And did anyone else check out the other videos on that site? The UFO one was a little freaky. I mean, those are experiemental US military craft from what I know of it, but he can summon them at will? That's insane stuff. 0_o

When I was little I wondered whether a thrown sharp knive can stab and destroy bullet itself, now its proven, well the not the end bit, but the edge of a katana, awesome.

[fallingstar]

Now let's throw a human head at it! :d

It would knock the sword out on the floor, unless someone is holding the katana, it will slice through I think.

[ShangTang]

Duh! Something was holding it up or all those bullets would've tipped it over. Think man!

[fallingstar]

Duh! Something was holding it up or all those bullets would've tipped it over. Think man!

Lol I made a mistake in my writing, sorry, I know someone is holding it it will tip if not, but for a head you will need someone with a lot more strength, because if a human head was FIRED! the impact it would had than a small bullet. lol

[LegionnaireX]

If I remember correctly, a katana blade is made up of 1000 layers of reinforced steel and wire.