The Five Worst Weapons Still in Use - Truthloader

Video Statistics and Information

Video

Captions Word Cloud

Captions

we humans are capable of some pretty horrific things over the years we created weapons designed to kill maim and generally cause unpleasantness to people around the world so we thought we'd take a look at some of the ones that are still being used today and just how easy it'll be to with the battlefield of some of the most horrific things that humanity has brought together so without further ado number 5 is grounds now there at number 5 because they aren't really particularly dangerous to civilians but they are unpleasant nonetheless see you'd think you're pretty safe at a tank it's a big old box of metal with several inches of steel surrounding you on all sides and until the Second World War you were but then loot rounds came in and turned tanks from a nice snug steel shell into a fiery metal coffin waiting to happen despite their name they've actually got nothing to do with heat it's called high energy and the tank round they're actually all about pressure they work by having amazingly a totally empty warhead usually something like copper in a diamond shape behind that is a small explosive and when the shell hits a tank the explosive charge is set off before it hits creating a massive pressure wave which is forced through the armor as a stream of particles traveling at 25 times the speed of sound when it enters the tank the huge pressure wave and scabs of molten metal left which journey through leave little chance of escape from the poor souls inside at number 4 depleted uranium and now we start getting into the territory where you can really hurt by standards uranium is a byproduct of nuclear enrichment but whilst it's not all that radioactive in itself it is very very dense and it's just lying around after the enrichment process which makes it ideal for armor-piercing bullets and tank shells so why is it so horrible well when the shell hits the tank it fractures into several razor-sharp chunks and a fine powder so hot it burns on contact with air so when it gets through the tank hull it sprays razor-sharp shards of metal around and a huge fireball is formed making life very unpleasant once again for the people inside and once it's done that all the powder flies into the atmosphere and set on the ground where it eventually gets ingested by the local population or other soldiers the health risks are disputed by some studies especially claims that it causes cancer but when ingested it can have horrible effects hospitals in parts of the Balkans and Iraq have reported massive increases in childhood leukemia and birth defects in fact in Fallujah the infant mortality rate due to those two factors alone it's 13.6% although depleted uranium shells are still in wide-scale use the UN has recommended that it could potentially fall under the title of chemical weapons which would make their use illegal [Music] on the surface white phosphorus is just fine and dandy it's a chemical compound fired out of artillery shells and grenades which is used to create smoke to high tanks and troops and used as a marker to illuminate targets nothing quite so dangerous there it may even directly save some lives oh except for when it actually hits something because then it becomes a bubbling roiling substance that sticks to everything and can melt flesh right down to the bone and once it's done that the chemical gets into the bloodstream and could cause multiple massive organ failures if it hits a tank or is thrown into a bunker the rapidly burning chemical uses all the oxygen in the facility and spreads noxious fumes around suffocating anyone inside it's also really difficult to cross out it's used as a weapon is partially banned you're not allowed to fire it in the hopes of using its chemical properties to kill people although in a rather sick twist you can use its heat based melty properties to kill far more humane obviously America's admitted to using the stuff in Afghanistan and Iraq Israel's used it against Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008 and it's legal status well as long as it's only used against soldiers and open ground it's more or less unfortunately fine at number two cluster bombs because what's worse than a bomb several thousand tiny ones that's what especially when half of them don't go off either by accident or because they're waiting for some unfortunate soldier or just as often a civilian to step on them or pick them up cluster bombs are tiny explosive devices carried in one giant bomb holder either a large single bomb or an artillery shell in a set distance above the ground the shell disintegrates spreading anywhere from a few dozen to thousands of bomblets over a wide area of ground they aren't designed to destroy buildings but to hit infantry roads or airfield runways or sometimes to lay minefields basically they're designed to take out soft targets in a way that will keep them from being repaired the problem with that is that the bombs can simply stay around either some don't explode for whatever reason or they aren't meant to explode they're left ahead of approaching troops to detonate later and they can light for decades just waiting for someone to step on one they are pretty indiscriminate and collateral damage is almost a certainty and the weapons are everywhere in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos Chechnya Croatia Yugoslavia Afghanistan and Iraq after the admitted use of 1500 cluster weapons on Baghdad including in residential areas in 2003 General Richard Myers chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that only one civilian casualty had been recorded this is what a cluster bomb looks like unsurprisingly there are records suggesting far far more were killed and injured and tens of thousands of bomblets remain unexploded a 2008 convention banning cluster munitions was signed by 83 countries the US and Russia we're not alone and finally are number one in the list of destruction Merv's nuclear missiles are the most terrifying things we've ever built more scary even than Beliebers so what would happen if you crossed a nuclear missile with a cluster bomb well you'd end up with a Merv or a multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle the premise is simple and totally Bastad 'ok it takes off twice the edge of space and then splits open dropping several remotely guided bombs back to the ground these smaller bombs are combined with radar confusing flares harder to shoot down and because you're not putting all your nuclear eggs in one basket far more destructive when they hit think they'd have been scrapped by now no the u.s. Minuteman missile carries three nuclear bombs and the Trident system used by the US and UK carries 12 per missile that's one missile with the potential to single-handedly wipeout London Berlin Madrid Rome Paris Bucharest Vienna Budapest Hamburg Warsaw Barcelona and Munich you

Info

Channel: Point

Views: 12,211,159

Rating: 4.0500722 out of 5

Keywords: Weapons, weapon, nuclear weapons, nuke, nuclear bomb, weapons of war, guns, gun, missile, missiles, bomb, bombs, rockets, rocket, tank, anti-tank, HEAT, depleted uranium, uranium, DU, white phosphorous, WI, incendiary, shell, artillery, cluster bomb, cluster munition, bomblets, blusterbomb, MIRV, MERV, Nuclear missile, trident, minuteman, self-defence, truthloader, cluster bombs, war crimes, US, Russia, Nuclear Weapon (Invention)

Id: 2cKodGdly9k

Channel Id: undefined

Length: 7min 16sec (436 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 17 2013

Reddit Comments

They're only terrifying if they're coming at ya!!!

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/Magma86 📅︎︎ Dec 23 2013 🗫︎ replies