Rocket Sled Impact Test In Slow-Motion

To ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the United States Nuclear Weapon Stockpile, Sandia National Laboratories conducts extensive modeling and full scale testing. This video shows one of the many tests Sandia conducts, using an inert unit, to ensure our Nation’s nuclear weapons are safe, secure, and reliable. Watch the test events as they unfold through high speed photography in slow motion and discover how sensors, gauges, and quantitative high speed imaging systems provide data for the super computer models.

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[Quang_Tran_asdf]

I did not see any "Do not try this at home" warning. Finally something fun I can do at home

[Sunlight]

And some people still claim the USA doesn't have a high speed rail system.

[makismakiavelis]

I've seen a ton of high speed footage over the years but it still amazes me how, under high deceleration, solid matter tends to behave like a fluid.

[CoffeeMug]

The sled was accelerated to such a high speed that it managed to generate it's own Shockwave which was visible on the ground right before impact.

[BiteMyShinyMetalss]

I love how you can see the air being pushed ahead of the rocket sled just before impact. That's crazy!

[jjthomas]

"Assuring we can end the world in a safe and reliable manner, we are Sandia..'

[konstantinosv.]

I am so impressed about the safety of the nuclear missiles that I decided to buy a dozen of them.

[nuyabuisness]

I always love seeing these kinds of tests because you just watch the object getting hit by the rocket sled evaporate on the high speed. Hardened steel parts and you get to watch it turn to powder before the force of the impact can even propagate down the rocket body.

[Ikuorai]

I feel like this video told us absolutely nothing about what was actually being tested.

It's like listening to someone trying to sell you on an ICO.

[mscm]

Her voice... "Welcome to the Black Mesa Research facility..."

[OdysseyABMS]

"remember kids, the only difference between science and messing around is writing it down."
-adam savage on mythbusters

[lieutanantrabb]

And out of the Smoke walked Indiana Jones and gets his Fedora from the ground😂😂

[nemod]

This is exactly how I park my car at work every morning :D

[AINGELPROJECT]

"All possibilities are prepared for"

I wonder if that also includes the possibility that they accidentally used an armed thermonuclear warhead instead of a test unit

[chriskiwi]

Would have loved to see ‘Acme’ painted on the side of the rockets and wily coyote pushing the fire button when the count hit zero….

[DininDalael]

Tests after the invention of high speed camera: The object was oblirated on impact.
Tests before the invention of high speed camera: The object disappeared, we have no idea where it went.

[strangelee]

Incoming enemy building spotted at 32 degrees sir!
- position the missile!

[AAgunner]

For those wondering if they people onboard the Titan submarine felt any pain when it imploded:

Imagine getting hit by one of these things from every side whilst being completely oblivious to the fact that they are coming towards you...

[aerohk]

For those who dunno what they are testing, it's simulating an air to ground missile impacting the ground.

[yowein]

What did you do at work today hunnie?
I blew up millions of dollars of stuff in fractions of a second.

You guys have some of the coolest jobs ever.