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today is going to be super exciting both proof cars have been around for a while and today we're going to see how durable a bulletproof car really is we have governments we have the president united states we have famous people a lot of them use bulletproof cars for protection and today we're gonna see how durable the glass is how durable the paneling is inside those doors and we're gonna do it in real life with real guns now if you don't like guns that's fine we're also gonna focus on the construction of the bulletproof paneling let's get started before we destroy anything let me show you what working with a company called armor max here in Utah was nice enough to donate some glass panels for us to shoot and we have two glass panels here today one is for a smaller caliber gun like a little pistol like a 9-millimeter and the other piece of glass is for a larger caliber rifle like the one I use my bump stock video the ar-15 so it really just depends on how much protection you want for your vehicle this is the nine-millimeter that we'll be shooting at the glass and this is the thinner pane and then over here we have the ar-15 with the bump stock attached we're just going to be shooting single rounds today though you can see the larger caliber here and how thick the pane of glass is compared to the lower caliber but really all of this stuff is completely customizable like the president's motorcade here in the United States uses about double this thickness of glass inside it really just depends on how much protection you want and how much you're willing to spend as far as weight goes when there bulletproofing a car with a smaller caliber you know bulletproofing it for a handgun it usually adds anywhere from you know 400 to 500 pounds give or take the protection you want but if you're gonna fully rifle proof your car you can add anywhere from five hundred all the way up to maybe 12 or 13 hundred your gas mileage might go down slightly but sometimes that's a good trade-off for the protection it offers so gun ranges are actually pretty cool so right here we have different slots gun safety is a pretty big thing when you're at a gun range each of these little cubicles keep the you know the bullets that are jacked out of the gun keep it from hitting your neighbor and then as we walk down range right now it's safe because there's no one else shoot in here this is one of the pieces of glass that we're going to be shooting at so we have it propped up we have some of these little green targets right here just so we have something to aim at while we're shooting and then we also have one little melon right behind it so if the bullet goes through the bulletproof glass which it shouldn't we'll know for sure now down here at the end of the range is something that not a lot of people see this is what directs the bullets into this channel down here at the end so that they can recycle all of those bullet tips because there's a lot of metal in a bullet and it's always good to recycle so you can see here all these little markings are little bullets that have hit this metal panel right here and then ricocheted up there into that little slot so they can collect them and recycling all right so we're gonna start with the 9-millimeter handgun first we're going to shoot that pane of glass right down there let's do it that looks sweet let's go take a closer look oh man that's so cool you can see the impact point right here you can see like a little bit of remnants of like the metal on the tip of the bullet and then it just like absorb the impact and fractured all the way around this outside so here on the back side it's still 100% completely smooth my fingers aren't catching on any of like the glass layers on the back of this if you were sitting inside of this car window you would still be totally fine now these layers of bulletproof glass there are actually layers of glass and plastic stuck together so if you interested to see what kind of penetration we can get when we start shooting the rifle on the ar-15 but a half an inch stopping a bullet that's pretty impressive so we have the camera set up and our safety gear on we're gonna shoot that same piece of glass a couple more times with the 9-millimeter and see how well it hands up to multiple shots alright so safety gear is on I mentioned if you're being shot at inside of a car it's not just gonna be one bullet there's going to be multiple so I'm gonna empty this full magazine into the glass and see what happens sweet okay so check this out it looks like I hit this part multiple times I think there was an impact point here here here here and here as the outside structure of the glass is compromised it removes the outer layer but the inner layers are still fine so you can see like this divot right here if the glass is an inch thick this probably removed about half an inch of that but it's still survived I mean how many shots was that like six and so if we go back here to the back of the glass you know feeling the back of it I can there's not there's nothing catching on my hand but as I move my hand over this I can feel like a slight indention and I imagine that's like the plastic layer bulging out just a tiny bit terrified after that glass my finger all right so we're not gonna touch the glass anymore but when the bullet hits there's so much energy in that bullet it impacts the glass obviously in the glass distributes the impact over the whole thing so not everything you see in Hollywood is truthful because if a bullet hits a car it's going to shatter the exterior layer of the ballistic glass at least all right so we have a new glass in place and this one is an inch and a half thick so it's going to do the ar15 the higher caliber bullet and we'll see if that melon survives all right so safety is now off and full disclosure I have not cited this gun so if I miss this first shot you okay so that was pretty sweet so the impact of the bullet had right here in the center and we can already see like this is an inch and a half thick you can also see the divot from the glass you know separating from the point of impact the energy said of going forward it immediately stops the forward energy and disperses it into the outward glass and these cracks look freakin incredible and this is the size of the bullet that hit that Center impact part right there and I think this is one of those classic layers inside let's see if we have any damage on the back that is sweet there is no damage on the back of this thing so if you were sitting inside of this car you would be completely safe from someone shooting an ar-15 at your window so you know everything this manufacturer has like a rating to it and so this piece of glass is certified for five bullets but armor max has shot this thing 20 times and it still survived which is pretty darn impressive so we just finished shooting the ballistic glass we're still going to shoot some of the ballistic armor panels here in a second but let's check out the Laboratory of armor max first and see how all this stuff is put together and there's actually quite a lot that goes into this so this stuff right here this is like a little bomb proof blanket that can actually sit down underneath the carpet inside of the car so I get for grenade or something has rolled underneath the vehicle you know it's full of Kevlar and stuff it stops the explosion from coming up inside of the cab now normally when you're sitting inside of a car you're hidden and protected by the door and the windows that's like one of the most important parts of bulletproofing a car is the glass and the door panels so this is a Land Cruiser right here and this is the bulletproof glass the same stuff that we were shooting at earlier you can kind of tell how thick this panel is but because of the weight of the bulletproof glass they actually have to stick new motors inside of the door so these are specialized motors that can lift the 60 pound slab of glass so the slab of glass will protect the top half of the person and the rest of the door is fitted with these bulletproof panels here inside we haven't shot any of these bulletproof panels yet but I'll make sure we get a chance before we leave so we've talked about how to protect the driver inside now here in the front protecting the engine is another important concept so here we have bulletproof panels that are set at an angle and go all the way down in front of the radiator because the radiator is what keeps the engine cool and if your radiators bleeding out then your car's not going to go very far so these bulletproof panels right here pretty important there's also the same bulletproof panels that we have inside of the metal panels here inside of this as well as protecting the firewall between the engine and the passenger compartment and then here we have a few more bulletproof panels protecting the battery because also without the battery you're not going to be going very far another bulletproof panel here protecting the air intake and inside of the tires they have something called a run flat which is basically a metal band on the rim of the tire that sticks up past the rim so even if there's no air in your tire and the tire is technically flat you'll still be able to drive on that metal rim inside of the actual tire so like I mentioned before there's a couple different packages that armor Maxx offers and so this is one of them here it's like you know an optional piece this says like that bulletproofing rounds because this is one of the weakest points when the door is closed that if a bullet Pierce's right here your head is still going to be right on the other side which just adds another layer of protection you have bulletproof glass on the windshield for that twenty twenty five thousand dollars all the main things be protected you know you inside of the cab but can go anywhere from 70,000 all the way up to the top with armor-piercing rounds and stuff like that it has remember that 2-inch thick piece of glass if you have that installed in your door panel obviously the windows aren't going to work anymore but that's the most protection that you can have while you're driving so one of the things when you're adding so much more weight to the vehicle like those panes of glass weighed a lot and it's anywhere from 500 to a thousand pounds maybe a little bit over that sometimes they have to upgrade the suspension as well so this suspension is calibrated for the extra weight and it'll still ride the same you know just as smooth as a stock vehicle even though this one's completely bulletproof so this isn't a sponsored video I just thought it was pretty cool technology and this company armor max has been in business for over 25 years they've had over 250 known attacks on their vehicles but no one has died from being shot through the armor on their vehicles so it's pretty good stuff but it's also interesting to know that like this stuff does happen like there are dangerous places in the world so seeing how the technology is able to protect people it's pretty interesting if everyone could just be nice to each other companies like this wouldn't need to exist but since there's niceness problems in the world here we are this car right behind me actually electrified door handles Dan doesn't know yet from a YouTube channel what's inside so I'm gonna tell him to open up the door to see what's inside of the car and see what happens see what he says about the steering Hall oh is this the shock door this is the shock door wow you almost got me do it anyway do it anyway I don't want to get shocked you gotta do it going in is he gonna hurt [Laughter] okay okay shocked me I felt it so there was a button back here that he just friend the hallway J goes out so this is like you can drop this behind you like if someone's chasing your car that's hilarious so like literally if someone's chasing them you can drop this little compartment in the back and these things fall out - like puncture the tires of all the cars that are behind you that's awesome so it's pretty sweet like one of these buttons right here he just had them labeled so one of these is dropping the tacks or the you know the things in the road and the other one this is the one that electrifies the door handles all over the lanes and then this box right here just folds up and click shut no he's got a figure out of stick all these back up in there and get it locked and loaded for the next guy okay so since Dan wouldn't really grab the doorknob I'm gonna give it a shot I've been tased before with that little case but I think this one's a little bit higher voltage and I am super nervous right now this is not something I planned on doing today are we good did you get it okay so I felt the tingle from my tip of my finger all the way up to about here so I'm gonna try it again yeah mmm hey you can fill it all the way up your arm it's stronger than that cell phone case that I reviewed a while back you know the Taser cell phone case it's not something I want to do for a long period of time when the car's actually turned on and the engine is running there's way more current going through that so what I was able to do right there it would be completely different if the car was on so here's a close-up shot of those electrified door handles you can see the copper strips on the inside so anytime someone just reaches in and grabs these grabbing the copper it'll jolt their whole arm like you saw earlier all right so we've seen the cars and we've seen the glass and now we're gonna shoot at some of the armored Mac's paneling that goes inside of the car doors now this stuff it's lighter than steel which makes it ideal for you know putting in cars because the more weight you have in a car through more the gas mileage goes down and the slower it gets so lightweight cars are good but this stuff is actually so light that they've stuck it in helicopters the ones you know in South Africa the anti-poaching helicopters which is pretty sweet so this piece right here is for like the larger caliber rifles but we also have this smaller piece of armor max material that stops 9-millimeter handguns so let's shoot both of these right now and see what happens so this square panel this is the armored Max 3.3 is the same stuff they stuck on the anti-poaching helicopters we're gonna shoot it with the nine-millimeter to see what happens let's try it out so the bullet travelled punctured into here and then traveled up inside of it because apparently there's one hundred and fifty six different laminate layers inside of this thing keeping the bullets from penetrating to the important stuff on the other side of the material so we're gonna empty the rest of the magazine inside of my nine-millimeter and see what happens with the rest of the bullets and then we'll switch to the bigger caliber guns alright so there's about five more shots in this we're gonna put all of them straight into the material and see what it looks like after we're done that's crazy it looks like there is absolutely no damage done to this but you can see tiny little pinpricks where each of the bullets hit and all of the bullets have been captured inside of the material that's a 9-millimeter bullet you know the smaller ones now we're gonna try the ar-15 and that should make a mark okay so this is the ar-15 the safety is now off let's see what happens so looking at it outside it's seriously like there's seriously no mark on the material which is like incredible but here on the back side you can see a small little divot where the bullet hit so it's just like this little tiny bolt personally I would feel super safe inside of a helicopter or a car you know with this lightweight material inside of it protecting against the bullets even with an ar-15 like stopping that much power is incredible so this piece of material is rated you know within a 5 inch radius it can be shot three to five times and still maintain a structural integrity but you know when you're in a moving vehicle and someone shooting at you which does happen armor max has had cars with like a hundred shots in them the bullets are all spread out like no one's gonna consistently shoot in one spot over and over and over again so overall today was a pretty fun day you know shooting guns is always a fun hobby for me and whether you like guns or you don't like guns it's still fun to see you know the science and the technology behind armored cars and armored helicopters I did not know that they armored those anti-poaching helicopters in Africa there any questions been down in the comments I'm sure I could be back here later to answer those questions or to blow up something else coming out with me on Instagram and Twitter and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around