I loved watching sled track tests from my old job site.

I can only imagine this being one of the coolest jobs ever. Thank you for sharing your stories, Fellas, and thanks for posting this video.

What a pack of happy old men, great memories well told.

And there are some who say America doesn't have high speed rail.

You have to admit, some of this has a distinct Wile E. Coyote vibe.

9:19 . . . She said "generate over 50 times time the pull of gravity", BUT voice in test video said "1000 g's" ! . . . Writers of these docs might want to pay more attention to the *original* narrators ?!

Thank you for this. It was refreshingly frank and very interesting.

At 1:39, the narrator pronounces nuclear as 'nu-ku-lar', and that's all I can think about for the rest of the video. What about that word is so difficult for so many people?

Fascinating work!

These guys are genuine "Iron Men." Their brains, intuition, and willingness to keep reaching, are fine examples of what has made America such a powerful country. This is what happens when people are not hampered by politically correct, restrictive thought control. American ingenuity based on freedom at its finest. A thousand THANKS to all involved!!

Great video that brought back lots of memories. Good to hear from and see some old colleagues.

My dad works there, he is currently in California working on a special camera

I would love to work at Sania!

This needs alot more views, so interesting... UK Viewer ;)

Beautiful video! These men are all extraordinary men. Just brilliant!

It would be nice to see a programme dedicated to high speed imaging, and associated equipment.

14:10 . . . There is one somewhat like this centrifuge currently in operation at NASA/GSFC ~ 1/10th the G-lbs though. It was designed to test quasi-static loads on entire spacecraft. They've threatened to dismantle it almost every year for decades after Apollo !

Makes me want to apply for a job

One would think that Sandra National Labs would get their facts strait before publishing. It wasn’t Japanese torpedoes that wouldn’t detonate after being fired. It was US torpedos that had that issue. The Japanese arguably built the best torpedo of WW II. What really gets my goat is the narrators mispronunciation of the word nuclear. It’s pronounced “new clear” not “nuckuler”. Come on people make us proud. You can do better than this.

As a former mine diver i can understand these guys so good. Fireworks 365 days a year ..... yehaaaa

awesome job.

When Sandia Labs takes a shot gun approach to testing

Hmmm, the Japanese torpedo that would not detonate upon impact seems more likely the US torpedo that was flawed and only fixed I think in 1943. Not sure about the Japanese torpedo, a reference would be nice.

Is there a book that has the full history of all this stuff?

I’m pretty much a back of the envelope chalkboard Theorist. Secretly, I wish to have as much fun as experimentalists. I bet it feels like flying!

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Japanese torpedoes worked just fine. It´s American torpedoes that didn´t work, and for the voice over to say otherwise says, they´ve gathered some video on the subject, but they don´t know what they´re talking about and they don´t care.

No, "like American torpedoes that wouldn't detonate when striking Japanese ships" is the correct sentence.

27:25 Anyone else think that the impact mark on that target in the background looks like the shark from Jaws?

Those weren’t Japanese torpedos… or at least NOT just theirs.

whats 4 wheel drive got do with any thing

need me? I it will be a no brainer to leave my job as teacher and move from belgium to usa

Most employees in the video aged well. Looks like they fun making a boom.

2.42 die Deutschen hatten keine Dieselmotoren sonder Benzinmotoren

How to break things.

We never screwup the same way twice.

2:46 Japanese torpedoes? More like American torpedoes that were famously unreliable.

когда то вот так по муравейникам стрелял из рогатки

Thats my dream job too guys

Great video, the voice over woman's accent is infuriating though

Weapons researchers.

Such an interesting job, but the narrator can’t pronounce nuclear. At 1:38, She mentions “…a world-class nuc-yooler weapons testing complex…” Luckily, their test protocols are better than their sound editing. You’d think Sandia, in what amounts to a commercial for their wares, would care about that level of accuracy in their marketing.

1:20 is too long for an intro montage

Why the robo voice? Is it that hard to get a real life narrator for a half hour??

"nu-cu-lur" ? Seriously? And the Japanese torpedoes were perfect. Ours were trash.

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But, on Sep 11, 2001, a soft aluminum airliner, went through the concrete fortified Pentagon without leaving a trace of the plane.

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Who on earth is the narrator? A superb documentary spoiled by terrible annunciation and pronunciation.

Please stop pronouncing nuclear as nu cue lar.

Great film but the narrator's voice is an unbearable affectation.

These guys talk with a lot of pauses. Ahhhh!. Ughhh! Because they have lived their whole life signing non disclosure agreements. They have to think ahead before saying something that gets their retirement taken away. My dad worked electronics for Boeing. He wouldn't tell me anything until the day he died.

This voice over is awful

You have to admit, some of this has a distinct Wile E. Coyote vibe.