![]() The air rushes from your lungs as the force of the blast strikes your body like a surprise punch to the stomach from a trained fighter. You’re suddenly blind and deaf and struck stupid. Though 100 additional years of physics study more fully explain how explosions work, the experience of being hit by one hasn’t changed. The truck and its remaining passengers slid 50 feet down an Iraqi street before they came to rest, the vehicle nose down in a huge roadside hole.īritish gunners watching German prisoners, wounded and visibly distressed, passing after the taking of Guillemont. The blast pushed the floorboard to the steering wheel and launched the driver through the thankfully open roof of the vehicle, breaking his legs in multiple places, but sparing him a snapped neck. A Chinese anti-tank mine filled with 5.4 kilograms of explosive material designed to cripple an armored vehicle exploded under the front left tire of their metal and fiberglass Humvee. Nine of my Marines experienced it firsthand in December 2004. You clarify the situation identify the status of your force ascertain the condition of your weapons and equipment. Maybe this is just the start of a long day or night of fighting. Protecting against secondary blasts designed to catch those moving to aid the wounded and recover the dead. Orienting weapons for follow-on ambushes. ![]() For the survivors, what matters next are the effects of heat and blast and metal fragments upon burned and tattered flesh. What matters in the moment is the sudden overwhelming eruption of light and sound and pressure and heat amidst clouds of smoke and dirt and whirling steel. What you must truly understand about explosions though, is that none of that matters in the moment. The physics are as complex as they are dispassionate joules and kilopascals blend to impose grave injuries then categorized by mathematical calculations and arcane Latin. ![]() An explosion is, at its essence, a rapid release of heat and pressure.
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