Tungsten Core M993 and API B32 VS

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7 жыл бұрын

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M993 7.62 NATO is a 125gr tungsten core projectile. The B32 API round is a 155gr armor piercing incendiary round.
Both shots were fired from 45' at our AR500 Armor Level IV ceramic plate.
Results:
B-32 @ 2566 fps - Stopped
M993 @3003 Penetrated panel plus 20"+ of gel.
M993 is no Joke!
Camera(s): Canon Rebel T6S, Phantom V611, Chronos 1.4
Edited with: Adobe Premiere Elements 14
Audio: Zoom H5
Music: Intro Music Provided Royalty Free by Ritual Suicide Copyright 2013
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@vicnighthorse 7 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you are somehow able to afford this video. Us 5 Patreon supporters obviously aren't covering the costs.

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

One day I'll get there. I'm glad to have a good relationship with the Armor companies who provided the panels, and with Aimed Research. I'd like to build out more contacts (specifically with Clear Ballistics Gel), and it will come with time. Ammo costs for these are always the killer.

@Troacoli 6 жыл бұрын

you deserve way more views

@bsouza4441 7 жыл бұрын

First time i see something smaller than a .50 cal destroy a level iv body armor . pretty good

@christophegroulx8187 4 жыл бұрын

Tim Podhorn This isn’t ar500

@christophegroulx8187 4 жыл бұрын

Tim Podhorn The plate was made by the company ar500, but it’s made of ceramic

@CharlieMikeNS 4 жыл бұрын

@Tim Podhorn someone doesn't understand armor construction or ratings.

@mikewong2440 3 жыл бұрын

@@christophegroulx8187 Armor Repub doesn't make any ceramic or poly. They resell.

@quinnmoore5985 3 жыл бұрын

.22-250 kills it with soft points

@jankukura6744 3 жыл бұрын

That is actually not Soviet B32 round, but a Czechoslovak PZ round. Both the B32 and PZ are API but the origin is different.

@destructtsugs 4 жыл бұрын

Edge shots will go through ceramic and PET armour even if it's level 4. Safe zone is less than 2 inches from the edge. Only steel has reliable edge to edge protection.

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

Manufacturers can still rate for closer to the edge than 2". The min is 1.5". This was a full ceramic strike face. This M993 is still going through most level IV armor.

@mikewong2440 3 жыл бұрын

Steel has unreliable edge to edge. It'll shred your arms and legs.

@waterishdrake8693 29 күн бұрын

⁠@@mikewong2440 I’d take a shredded arm and leg over a 308 through my heart any day

@alexdiazgecko 5 жыл бұрын

Cool man, I’m impressed with the power of those rifle cartridges! Amazing knock down power

@robertf3613 6 жыл бұрын

Holy smoke!!!! That's awesome. Great show. Keep high five!

@Predator42ID 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, I need some of those rounds for my Mosin, because that is just plane cool.

@MuzluPattes16 3 жыл бұрын

this is 7.62x51 not 7.62x54

@sbreheny 2 жыл бұрын

@@MuzluPattes16 The B32 is a 7.62x54R round

@devanteil777 7 жыл бұрын

awesome stuff as always.

@Term1backup 5 жыл бұрын

Probable survivability percentage after being shot with one of these = 0

@johnyappleseed9301 5 жыл бұрын

you could survive the armor piercing

@PrototypeBMX 5 жыл бұрын

@@johnyappleseed9301 the impact alone would probably stop your heart never mind the penetration bursting it like a balloon

@conorclimo8534 5 жыл бұрын

Hell definitely zero if these are being shot outta a M1919 loaded w/ .30-06 Rounds w/ these bullets.

@johnyappleseed9301 5 жыл бұрын

@@conorclimo8534 level 5 plate will save you no problemo

@christophegroulx8187 4 жыл бұрын

@@PrototypeBMX Wrong, it wouldn't kill you

@flossordie2256 7 жыл бұрын

I saw this stuff for sale for $ 20 per projectile.....

@kawasakifreak77 7 жыл бұрын

FlossOrDie if you're talking about the ones cdvs have, they're similar but not quite the same. They're mislabled. Nammo produces M993 & the 152gr bullets Sean has were made by new Lenox as competition against AP10.

@flossordie2256 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I saw them on cdvs.

@teamseshmason 5 жыл бұрын

5$ per round at my local gun show

@shrewm 5 жыл бұрын

@@teamseshmason they are probably fake and the seller will be long gone when you realize it.

@krisguntner4805 7 жыл бұрын

great video,thanks.

@rockmusicman21 5 жыл бұрын

Great background music \M/

@ralfbender1728 5 жыл бұрын

Normal Steel Core AP not as effective like real tungsten

@breendyson8930 3 ай бұрын

Let's edit Sia's song: .. .I'm unstoppable, I'm a Porsche with no brakes. .. .. .I'm unstoppable, I'm an M993 Tungsten Core.. .

@LetFreedomPing 7 жыл бұрын

that was really cool

@nsansa7552 7 жыл бұрын

now I just need to win the lottery so I can afford it haha

@ryanpatton5937 5 жыл бұрын

Great video

@Junkyardnedreck 5 жыл бұрын

Ok so yes the b-32 stopped it, but the force of impact looked like it might kill u, or at least immobilize u.

@mikewong2440 3 жыл бұрын

That'd take very serious blunt damage. 100+ has been survived with a soft best before. Hard plate is a easy.

@markanthonystringfellow3923 7 жыл бұрын

Tungsten Alloys Rule! :-)))

@waterishdrake8693 29 күн бұрын

I’m about to test resized b32- 308 and see how it does against M2AP-p61 and of course the Swiss P AP tungsten.

@BuffRANGE 29 күн бұрын

B32 has about the same effectiveness as m2ap. The Swiss P AP tungsten rules them all from that list. What are you testing them against ?

@catherineharris4746 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!👍👍👍

@lukecasler7811 5 жыл бұрын

Have you heard about xm1158? I'm sure once that ammo gets around we can get some for testing, but what are your predictions about the AP capabilities of that ammo. It is like the m80a1 but uses a tungsten carbide penetrator instead of a steal one.

@BuffRANGE 5 жыл бұрын

I've read about it, but have never seen pictures of any in the wild. From what I've read, in theory exposed penetrator ammo can penetrate ceramic armor better than say the traditional FMJ with hardened core like M993.

@lukecasler7811 5 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE that is very interesting. I'm excited to see what happens with that ammo.

@RussellChapman99 6 жыл бұрын

Even if it was a through and through with nothing important directly hit, your internals would be pretty much liquified by the shockwave

@truedemoknight6784 4 жыл бұрын

Armored plates actually do a fairly good job of absorbing kinetic energy. If you're wearing anything tougher than Kevlar then you'd barely feel it at all. There are videos of guys getting shot with armor and barely flinching.

@Reticuli Жыл бұрын

Yet they're blowing money on 6.8 Fury with its inferior subsonic options. It seems that 30-caliber is once again being underestimated by the Army. Becoming a seasonal thing with them.

@drahunter213 5 жыл бұрын

Is there a bullet with a tungsten needle like rod with lead around it in a bullet shape and copper jacket...can one be made? Or if one exsists

@rodiculous9464 3 жыл бұрын

was there any penetration with the b32? it looks like it blew the crap out of the armor but didnt damage the gel block much. also curious if you think it would still ignite out of a x39 case

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

Nope no penetration. I"m not sure if there's a min velocity needed for the incendiary compound to ignite. I thought as long as the surface was hard it would.

@rodiculous9464 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE disappointing as i've seen the bullets pop up from time to time, was hoping they would be at least somewhat AP, i wonder if it will pen level 3 armor if not 4, could be interesting to see, thank you for responding!

@hpsmith2010 6 жыл бұрын

Did you ever try a 55 grain fmj bullet fired from a .220 swift or .22-250 @ 3700 or 3800 fps (or something like that) against level 4 ceramic armor? (IIRC you once said it was something you were planning to do).

@BuffRANGE 6 жыл бұрын

We tried m855a1 from 22-250 But no stabilization :(

@hpsmith2010 6 жыл бұрын

With a steel tip and a copper core (IIRC) - making for a longer bullet - I can understand that. But even if it was stable, at such high velocities, the higher density of a lead fmj bullet might be a more important factor in armor penetration than the steel tip. I think that's where "the Wound Channel" went wrong in his test: he only tested a "green" bullet.

@BuffRANGE 6 жыл бұрын

That does bring up a good point. I can always borrow the 22-250 again, but I do have a SLAP-T (tracer) that may give us similiar results :D

@mikewong2440 3 жыл бұрын

Velocity won't touch ceramic. You need high contact energy.

@hpsmith2010 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikewong2440 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, because the kinetic energy of any given bullet is proportional to the velocity squared; so velocity always matters.

@el5495 3 жыл бұрын

What if you had ceramic with sort armor and ar500 plate with no build up

@Halal_Dan 3 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't fit it into the carrier lol

@zacsampson9447 5 жыл бұрын

What's so special about B32 API vs normal 7.62API if you don't mind me asking just curious😎

@BuffRANGE 5 жыл бұрын

I believe the bullet in B32 is longer bullet with a cup of material at the bottom of the hardened steel insert. Other 7.62x54R API I've seen doesn't have that. This is a normal API: flic.kr/p/ZTGzpV

@halojohnboy1171 7 жыл бұрын

Nice video, any chance of you having enough to test against esapi if provided?

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

+Johnathan Fitzpatrick I could source more of I could find an esapi as well

@halojohnboy1171 7 жыл бұрын

Buffman - R.A.N.G.E. I can provide a couple sides and a regular plate

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Johnathan Fitzpatrick let me talk to my sources. :)

@halojohnboy1171 7 жыл бұрын

Buffman - R.A.N.G.E. deal on that, I have them sitting around after a buddy got out, and I want to see what they can take

@UrbanTiger74 5 жыл бұрын

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWT DAMN!

@rockhard7133 7 жыл бұрын

OUTSTANDING! Are these better than M948 S.L.A.P. rounds?

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Is the M948 the 55gr FMJ SLAP ?

@rockhard7133 7 жыл бұрын

Yes. 61.5grains weight=Tungsten Carbide dart+ Sabot. weaponland.ru/images/statyi/patroni-2/2/7_62_NATO-7.jpg Spec'd at 4500 fps , I think. I know for a FACT it will clean 5/8" AR500, easy!

@rockhard7133 7 жыл бұрын

61.6 grains total, .875" length tungsten carbide dart+sleeve(looks like a G.E.superpolymer). NOT a standard m193 at all.

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Rock Hard test for them is comkng

@rockhard7133 7 жыл бұрын

Cool. Don't bother with 5/8" AR500. S.L.A.P. will clear it from hk91, easily!

@joelopezjl28 4 жыл бұрын

I wana get some of that M993!

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

It's the bees knees :D

@toto75tube 5 жыл бұрын

If firing M993 out of the 18 - 20” barrel... will break through level 4 at 50 yards? Do you think?

@mikewong2440 3 жыл бұрын

You're looking at perforation in the 120m range, 125... M995 will slice IV @ 25, 20m.

@toto75tube 3 жыл бұрын

High Voltage Bruh Thank you so much

@jamest4363 7 жыл бұрын

Wish I knew you wanted some m993..I have some..but how would you send it??how much did you pay for it..if you don't mind me asking..I would have sent you a few rounds for free

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

+James T43 by send it do you mean ship it? Ups or FedEx ground. I paid $30/each from a collector. I would be looking for more

@dummyaccount9684 4 жыл бұрын

What was the length of the barrel?

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

I don't remember as it was performed offsite. Either 18-22", somewhere in that realm.

@jasonmantovani8155 5 жыл бұрын

That is some nasty fucken sounds

@jasonmantovani8155 5 жыл бұрын

Rounds

@sweetsour6783 4 жыл бұрын

The whole point of military body armour is that it is 2 layers: a hard layer to deform and flatten the bullet (steel or ceramic), and then the kevlar layer to actually catch the bullet. It's the same principle as with ballistic glass, which is glass and polymer. I'm not saying a proper test would have resulted in no penetration, but you should have done a proper test - with the kevlar between the plate and the ballistic gel.

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

That's called an "In conjunction with" (ICW) armor plate/system. Most all NIJ level IV plates unless specifically made as ICW, are what is known as standalone. Meaning that the "catcher" material is integrated into the plate already. In this case, UHMWPE is backing the ceramic strike face.

@sweetsour6783 4 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE Oh that's right, I saw that before but forgot that it existed. My bad.

@user-oy9zy4ds9m 7 жыл бұрын

I don't understand if level 4 can stop m2AP how are these going through

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Joe Vazquez m2ap when tested in NIJ is 2880 fps. These are about 200 fps faster. Tungsten is way way way harder than the tool steel used in m2ap

@user-oy9zy4ds9m 7 жыл бұрын

Oooohhh

@timewave02012 7 жыл бұрын

The higher density of tungsten might help too.

@user-bm8et8km2u 7 жыл бұрын

Beacuse M2AP is obsolete nowadays as is m993. M2AP is basically 1920 tech. M993 is late 1960 tech. Just perfected jacket design for the 1996 us ap qualification. There are newer much more penetrative bullets out there.

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Which designs are those?

@joelopezjl28 3 жыл бұрын

I'm curious if the B32 you got from cdvs is legit ot if its just reloaded by them?

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

This particular B32 came from a collector, and was not from CDVS..

@joelopezjl28 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE ahhhhhh my bad

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

@@joelopezjl28 I have some "M14" API from them that's B32 bullets that were resized.. :\

@joelopezjl28 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE either way for 50 its not a bad price for api

@jukeboxhero1649 3 жыл бұрын

I don't care about any of that Barbara Pearson bullets or any of that I just come here to hear that really toned down semi muted ultra low quality metal in the background playing as buffer music while this video rolls yeah

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

Only the best royalty free music that money can buy!

@jukeboxhero1649 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE Keep rocking the range, Bro!!!! Light'm up!! I'll keep watching!

@muwuny Жыл бұрын

Does B32 outperform M2AP?

@BuffRANGE Жыл бұрын

as far as I'm aware no. M2AP is generally considered a slightly better performing round.

@muwuny Жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE Thanks

@daringdanny9396 5 жыл бұрын

7.62x51 in tungsten= even in level iv armor you will still die.

@zm1786 5 жыл бұрын

Tungsten is the best metal for bullets, it's a shame China owns 95% of the world's tungsten

@demonslayer1287 4 жыл бұрын

Why this B-32 is super slow ? It should go up 2700 mps.

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

Might have been barrel length, or powder had degraded after all these years?

@demonslayer1287 4 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGEoh, WWII ammo you said. Are these B-32 from ShKAS machine gun ? They have a bullet lighter than modern Russian API use for SVD (so it stand a reason to faster), and they're not lacquered, so probably also easier to degrade. In US or Canada it should be hard to seek a modern Russian API ammo I think.

@demonslayer1287 4 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE according to the data, a 160.5 gr B-32 shoots by a SVD should gives 815 m/s (2674 fts).

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

@@demonslayer1287 I am not sure where they came from. They were donated by a collector. Yes in the US, it's hard to get Russian ammo :(

@watferfoot1467 5 жыл бұрын

Dancing speck !

@alexisesmy 4 жыл бұрын

The force at 2:40 will knock someone straight on thier ass!!!!

@BuffRANGE 4 жыл бұрын

Not Really. I mean from knocking the wind out of you maybe, but there's no more force imparted on the receiving end, then as you firing the rifle experiences..

@smith8124 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE Yes and no. Milliseconds mater...a lot. The projectile is being accelerated from zero to muzzle velocity over say 20”. It’s difficult to conceptualize because we don’t often think in such minute time frames, but a 20” acceleration distance vs a 1.5” deceleration distance is worlds apart. Yes, same energy, but transferred so, so much faster in the decel phase.

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

@@smith8124 It still isn't going to knock anyone down. There's 2 examples online where guys took .308 at Point blank and they didn't miss a word or fall down.

@smith8124 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE All depends on what you're wearing/how much surface area the energy is transferred over. If the unit can catch it without backface deformation, good to go. But once you start seeing deformation you can expect fractured ribs and organ damage. Eg. Your level IV video getting hit with 50BMG. It caught it on one of the rounds, but that dude would 100% be dead. Would like to see the point blank .308 videos. Got links? Paramedic so maybe they'll make it into a training video about kinetics of trauma vs ballistic vests and plate carriers. Cheers

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

@@smith8124 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gM9lidN5xrTdg6s.html - Steel plate, and this one was ceramic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZuWZKmgmdiYj30.html

@mikeyeyes7 7 жыл бұрын

Sweet video but terrible shot placement on the plates, you shot the weakest part of the plates the corners, should've shot the center

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry. NIJ specifications, allow the manufacturer to set the min shot to edge distance. It can BE NO MORE than 2" from the edge. These plates have full front strike faces that extend to the edge of the plates. There's no reason a shot 1" from the edge on these designs would be any weaker than a COM shot. Would I have liked them further in yes, but I do have to maximize the plate surface I have for testing, and want to ensure follow up shots have solid surfaces to be tested again.

@kaikart123 6 жыл бұрын

mikey Doesn't matter, the armor plate job is to protect whatever behind it no matter where it got shot.

@jukeboxhero1649 3 жыл бұрын

I like the video but you need to make some of them bullets available to us so we can reload help a man out come on buddy

@BuffRANGE 3 жыл бұрын

M993 is pretty dang expensive :( $15-30/pop on GunBroker

@jukeboxhero1649 3 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE wow! I guess I better figure out how to use a lathe and and make my own projectiles. Things are hard when you aren't 19 years old with the MIC and limitless congressional money behind you.

@kawasakifreak77 7 жыл бұрын

weeeee! \,,/-_-\,,/

@XJapa1n09 7 жыл бұрын

So if money were no object I'd I get some M993, pull the bullets and load them in my 300WM. I bet I can push them to 3800fps.

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Dave L I'm able to push m80a1 to about 3500 fps. Wish I had more to experiment for more velocity.

@XJapa1n09 7 жыл бұрын

Buffman - R.A.N.G.E. Wow that's good info, if only I could find them! I have one(1) of them, lol!

@BuffRANGE 7 жыл бұрын

Dave L cdvs has the 152gr tungsten I'm working on next

@Th3Onl1n34 4 жыл бұрын

big bubu

@slopothacrop 2 жыл бұрын

Why not a center mass hit? All Ceramic is weak on the edges. I call bull shit here. The round on the M993 is the same round loaded in the 30-06 M2 AP round however the 51MM case being way shorter than the parents 63mm case means there is no way in fuck that a M993 is ever going to surpass a 30-06M2 AP round in terms of performance (unless hand loaded), which all level IV plates are rated for.

@BuffRANGE 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry the information you have been provided is wrong. M2AP is a 163-165gr hardened steel core penetrator. NIJ spec velocity is 2880 fps. M993 is a 130gr TUNGSTEN core projectile traveling approx. 3000+ fps from a 22" barrel. Monolithic ceramic plates typically are just as strong at the edges. Tungsten is FAR harder than steel. I've shown various times that M993 will penetrate Level IV from 16" barrels.

@catherineharris4746 2 жыл бұрын

@@BuffRANGE 100%FACTS!👍👍👍