Plasma Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZ70L9XVGA Be sure to LIKE the video and SUBSCRIBE http://www.YouTube.com/MTR702?sub_confirmation=1 Your support on Patreon is appreciated! https://www.patreon.com/SpacePak ● My Twitter - http://Twitter.com/MikeInHD ● My Graphics Channel -https://www.youtube.com/user/moboxgraphics?sub_confirmation=1 In the world of Halo, Master Chief is a super soldier outfitted with one of the most advanced sets of body armor ever produced by mankind. So how bullet proof if Master Chief? It all starts with John 117. Basically he was kidnaped as a kid and pumped with performance altering drugs and growth hormones. The success rate for transforming a small child into a giant fighting machine is apparently pretty low. So yeah, it’s pretty amazing this guy can even mentally function let alone save the planet. Anyway, as a full grown man, John is 287 pounds (131 kilograms) and stands 6 feet 7 inches tall (about 2 meters). To put it into perspective, Andre the Giant was a 7 foot 4 inches tall (2.24 meters) wrestler from France. Coming in at at 550 lb (255 kg), not only was he tall, but he was massive. So although John is big, he isn't’ that big. What makes Chief so powerful is of course his set of armor. According to lore, “The MJOLNIR powered assault armor is a technologically-advanced combat exoskeleton system designed to vastly improve the strength, speed, agility, and reflexes of a spartan super soldier. This suit then brings John up to 7 feet tall and about 1,000 lb (453 kg), or twice the weight as Andre the giant, but still a little shorter. After “extensive” research on YouTube I found a number of videos about the science of Halo, in particular about Master Chief’s armor. The general consensus is that some aspects of the armor is possible to produce and that it would be relatively bullet resistant. Instead, in this video, we’re going to assume that not only does Master Chief exist with his armor containing the same properties in game, but also that the weapons in Halo exist as well. This leapfrogs all of the obvious questions like, “how could a man control a suit of armor weighing as much as an elephant”, and “could energy shields exist and if so could they stop bullets”. For the record, a few companies are working on energy shields, but they only really work against fire or pressure waves, not projectiles or shrapnel, but we’ll get back to that. In the game, the sniper rifle fires a 14.5x115 mm armor piercing round with a bullet weight of 64 grams. This round travels at a speed of 1450 meters per second, or 5.5 times the speed of a Boeing 777. It’s based on a Russian cartridge historically used in anti-tank weapons but more recently in anti-air weaponry. In flight, this round has the same energy as a baseball traveling 2154 miles per hour (963 m/s) and Chief’s armor has to catch it. By the way, one sniper round is enough to deplete the shield and another is enough to puncture the titanium armor, which makes sense because it's the energy and equivalent of 38 standard 5.56 rounds. But this means that this bullet needs to go from 1450 meters per second to a dead stop, in 6 inches of energy shield. Because this round is armor piercing, the tip is extremely hard which prevents it from being crushed. This results in a force of 883 kN and a localized pressure of 4.1 Giga Pa (595,000 psi). The fact that the energy field doesn’t puncture under these types of pressures puts it in a league of its own above basically any composite, metallic alloy, or ceramic material known to man. Because the shield is not rigidly connected to Chief, it’s hard to know exactly how the suit would react to an impact of this magnitude. If the shield did transfer the force onto Chief he would be accelerated backward at the equivalent of nearly 200 earth gravity's but only momentarily. In fact, it’s so quick he would only stumble backwards a few inches. In terms of momentum, it would be like an unarmored person getting hit with a 99 mph fastball. It’s going to hurt but it won’t necessarily knock you off your feet. In the game though, one sniper shot is enough to fully deplete the energy shield. As the second bullet impacts, the extremely hard core would pierce its way into the titanium armor and through the subsequent layers of the suit. With an impact of this magnitude, there aren’t a lot of materials that could save Chief at this point including titanium armor. Like in real life, chief goes down pretty hard. Music by: https://www.soundcloud.com/safakash - Lose Ya YouTube Music Library - Not too Cray

• published: 10 Nov 2015
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