Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ballistic High-Speed" channel.

A gun blowing up is something that can affect thousands of channels and millions of regular people at the range. Launchers are kind of niche and honestly sort of taboo among the gun crowd.
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The weld saved him. If it had been a pristine tube the pressure build up would have created a pipe bomb. When the area around the weld gave out it vented the pressure instead of splintering the tube.
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RPG means "Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomot" which means "handheld antitank grenade launcher". Rocket propelled grenade is an English designation to retroactively match "RPG".
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What's the easiest way for that to happen? Voids in the fuel or the fuel grain cracking. Essentially the same mechanism of failure they mentioned.
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It was venting out of the tube before the blast hit the head. If backblast hits an object, it gets redirected and it injures the shooter from the back. He was injured from the front and side.
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@30035XD No. That's just not how fluids work. That's not the mouth of the barrel. They already reviewed the footage and the fragments, why are you trying to double down?
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@30035XD What legal reasons? If anything, a breakage in the rocket motor puts them more at fault than backpressure. Rocket failure puts the blame on them, backpressure is just an accident which can't be pinned on anyone. It was also a rocket and not a true RPG boost charge. Rockets are fired upwards, and they don't explode because of the ground. A ballistics gel mannequin would get pushed by the rocket, rather than create backpressure. A mannequin is lighter than planet Earth.
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It's just a symptom of concussion.
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Better yet, it was connected to the cooling fans.
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The diagrams are available online, worth noting they did not have the regular amount of rounds because of the space taken by explosive filler. If used on a weapon or unloaded manually the follower rising in the mag moved a plunger which actuated the firing train.
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