BLACK OPS BROTHERS E1 | HOWE & HOWE TECH | BADGER GOES BOOM
yeah that's what i'm talking about we're fired up to beef up one of our coolest inventions it's an ultra mini tank called the badger it is the world's smallest tank we're gonna fire everything we got at it push the final task to an explosive ending i'm michael howe and this is jeff my identical twin brother together we've been inventing engineering and wrecking things since the time we could walk today our inventions are saving lives and breaking the mold we put it all on the line to open a small fabrication research and development shop i'm the engineer and my brother jeff handles the business and our wives who happen to be sisters and keep the shop running welcome to how and how tech today we have a big surprise from mike and jeff hi hi come here tracy today brought us in a really nice surprise the guinness book of world records we had a vehicle in it it's called the badger smallest all-terrain armored vehicle built by hellhound technologies yeah that's what i'm talking about you guys worldwide records 2010. this is world's smallest tank it's pretty cool the badger is really neat because it's like a tank it is a tank but it's just really miniature it is only 32 inches wide we want to be able to get into a house anywhere that there may be a door swat teams and police units can use it to enter a building where they're trying to apprehend a suspect that's been barricaded inside the badger can be used like a battering ram to actually get inside the building once inside it can go around corners upstairs basically anywhere you want to go to track down subject at all times the law enforcement officer is actually protected by some pretty heavy duty armor so by taking the officer out of the line of fire the badger can save lives we have built one badger already that is currently being used by swat and law enforcement i can't tell you exactly where it is um it is top secret but i can tell you it's doing very very well it's an amazing feeling to make your mark on the world of engineering like that it's really what pushes us every day to keep engineering keep innovating and getting the job done well we are in the guest book world record man and i didn't have to eat 3 000 hot dogs in a minute i'm really proud of mike and jeff they put their heart and their soul into this company this is something they've worked for for a long time and they really deserve this congratulations honey thanks hon the guinness book thing is great but we're always pushing forward and to redesign and make things better the book of the decade that makes my day being in the guinness book started us thinking we should find a way to expand the market for the badger we came up with the idea of adding a lot more armor so the badger can sustain direct hits from the highest caliber and rifles as well as bombs that will make it a lot more effective for swat teams and we can also sell it to bomb squads i'm thinking we build one in-house completely with the new modifications to it ballistically test it and basically shoot one up for real life the whole point of building this badger is to run it through a battery of tests one of them is ballistics one of them is explosives um so we're building a whole badger from scratch basically to blow it up the current badger has armor that's basically designed to protect an occupant from small arms fire we weren't going to stop there with this newest build we want to design the armor package so it will stop small arms fire it'll stop the largest on the streets fire and also stop explosives grenades and still protect the occupant once we do a bunch more tests we can probably expand the market when it comes to a research and development project like this we're actually throwing in quite a bit of our own money so we really have to step up and perform so this shop's really going to struggle to keep its head above water the biggest modification we're going to be doing to the new badger is actually the steel itself we're going to be using a proprietary ballistic steel coupled with interior kevlar lining that will actually catch any of the ballistics that come in the kevlar liner for the badger is actually going to be made to our specifications by another manufacturer they're going to send us these pieces we're going to put them to the inside of the badger pound for pound kevlar is five times stronger than steel it's woven it's basically a plastic that's woven into a very very tight mesh it's layered one after another so even when the most powerful rounds impact the lining that web catches it you know do we do it now or do we wait i don't know if we don't actually have the time to do it now i just looked at the scheduling and um the scheduling basically looks like we are going to ramp up for sr1 at the end of two weeks and start the process rolling the sr-1 is another vehicle that we build for a mining operation we're expecting another order in a couple of weeks and that's going to give us a small window to be able to actually build another badger and bomb-proof it so we are basically two weeks to get it done to build a comp but to build a complete badger get the guys motivated and we have two weeks to do this punch it out that's what we do so we do know what's going to burn up the guys you understand that right after we get the badger done this will be a reward we get the badger done then we do the survival trip we have a survival trip this is a special event that we've been trying to plan for a really long time the entire crew's going we are extremely excited about it it's a three-day trip through very rocky mountainous terrain and that's actually a reward are you sure you want to do it yeah let's do it all right everybody meeting yeah meeting all right guys seriously we are really psyched we made the against booker world's record you guys know we're the badger awesome well done good job but we want to up stage that a little bit mike and i just talked what we want to do now is build a new badger build one that's more beefed up that has better armor we've got a little bit of time the sr1 order's not in yet so we have some time right now to do some r d there's a lot going on but we're not gonna miss the survival trip this time if we don't do it now it'll be another year before we can even think about it that's the new plan let's do it rock and roll good blow it up let's do it good good job guys hey chief jeffrey howard hey how's it going hey just wondering uh when you might be available to uh view our new uh badger in the ballistics testing i really want two different guys to come out and evaluate the tests we're doing on the badger one would be a local police chief for the ballistics and the other one would be a bomb squad member for the explosives i arranged a demonstration they're going to come out and basically watch us blow up the badger the major upgrade we want to do for badger is basically the armor so we just had some steel arrived and the guys are unloading it once this deal is unloaded we actually have to then take that steel and chop it up into the hundreds of pieces that's actually going to make the badger body i designed badger in the computer and then i flatten it out into 2d space i then define what i want cut in a flat piece of steel that goes to the cut computer the cut computer then turns that into zeros and ones for the plasma cutter the cutting torch then knows which lines to cut and boom you have your plates cut honey i have to run to the post okay okay love you bye you first this week is mike and jeff's birthday we're gonna have a party for them so tammy and i are going to sneak out during lunch and get the guys some birthday gifts figured they'd like some supplies for the camping trip that's coming up do you have any survival type items you can survive get it yes okay yes mike and jeff are extremely hard to shop for i think it might be you know the fact that they have to be reminded that they're twins mike and jeff always get the same thing for their birthday just in different colors how about a panini press all the gifts i bought for the camping trip were definitely like little gag gifts i just thought they were really funny does this one look like a match as much as the little ones do yeah and it could also fend off a bear that's true when jeff gets home if he doesn't bring this cat there his nose hairs are going to be thank you so much thank you so much you're very very helpful josh right now is using the plasma cutter to cut out the pieces for the badger it's kind of like a puzzle if you get one piece wrong that puzzle is not going to come together when i was cutting the steel on the table i noticed they were warping because of the heat that we were putting to it it's going to make it difficult to put together if those pieces don't straighten back out i don't really have much time to deal with that right now i just got to get them cutting off the table because i'd like to get that whole underside done today i put jeremy in charge of some of the engineering for the badger it is a tough job but i have a ton of faith in this kid what josh has printed off right here is the dimension drawing and this gives us all of the external dimensions that we need to build it what he's already done is gone through and cut out the majority of all the pieces so now it's up to tyler and myself to put it all together unfortunately everything that i'm welding together weighs 100 pounds so it's pretty hard to handle and it likes to warp a lot when we weld as soon as it heats it expands and then it starts to melt and warp the design for badger requires perfect 90 degree welds on the bottom problem that we're having now is that the metal that we're clamping together is all warped and it's almost impossible to clamp the two pieces together and have that hold at 90 degrees what we weld it idiot go back to doing whatever it was that you thought you were doing that's an issue it more or less requires a complete restart like so yeah to fix this we'll have to rip the plates apart and find a way to re-weld them so they sit flush any wasted time hurts we'll straighten up in the morning redo redo this warped metal problem is going to set us back a lot rescue randy is our in-house crash test dummy he bothers me he gives me this evil eye stare every now and then i'll give him an open hand slap i don't care uh we have a live ballistics demonstration on the badger we have to finish the vehicle and we already ran into a problem the armored steel that we're using on the badger uh started to warp on the plasma table this causes distortion in the entire structure so right now we have gaps that we need to fill we need to solve this problem so we can move forward that's why we had issues i put jeremy in charge of some of the engineering for the badger he's had a little bit of an issue with the steel warping but he's a smart kid he'll figure it out there you go all right i gotta go to you right now we're reassembling the bottom of the badger we welded it the first time everything warped and it caused the metal to go a half inch out of vertical to solve this problem we're welding beams across the two pieces that will prevent it from warping and keep it at 90 degrees pretty perfect to me so while jeremy and josh finish work on the hull i'm going to prep our motor for the badger we use a 32-horse three-cylinder diesel normally we would use a new motor but since we're going to blow this vehicle up we just bought a used one to save costs from all appearances the motor actually looks like it's in good shape but when you buy something new you never know what you're going to get right now the main chassis the hulls are being built and it looks like they've actually controlled the warpage of the cage let's go with it we are going to blow it up we're going to shoot both as long as it's structural as long as it's absolutely structural yeah we can't waste a lot of time on this so we can roll with it i'm psyched we just got a very special package delivered rescue randy is our in-house crash test dummy he will be inside the badger during these ballistics tests this is our latest rescue randy we go through a lot of these guys for any demolition or ballistics testing that we need a crash test dummy we call him rescue randy you know a piece of shrapnel comes through the door at him gets him in the head i'll be happy about it he bothers me i don't know what it is it's the look in his eye he gives me this evil eye stare every now and then i'll give him an opinion slap i don't care so i'm glad that he's going to be in the badger all right we apologize now buddy but you're going to get blown out good for you randy don't look at me like that again jeremy's doing very well i'm actually impressed with jeremy he's a good engineer um very good fabricator and uh he's got a good attitude so i have high hopes for him i never once thought that i'd be building something like this i've always dreamed of it i guess dreams do come true nice nice it's a good feeling to get when something that you're building could save somebody's life so even though we fixed our warping issue it cost us so much time we should have the engine in by now but we don't i'm not really sure what we're gonna do i think i'm gonna have to ask the guys come in this weekend to make up for the extra time all right you guys ready to go meet with will find out what's up for this weekend let's go do that as far as working tomorrow i know nobody wants to but who can jeremy sorry you're working tomorrow we need to get the badger done as soon as possible well you might sure can't give your sunday though okay it sucks to ask the guys to come in on weekends but we have to take advantage of the small window before the survival trip and before these big waters come into the sr1 so we're going to suck it up and we're going to get this done the word is i'm gone it's friday friday friday friday it's gonna be a long weekend it's definitely gonna be a long weekend it's been a long week it's now saturday stuff we still have to do so that being said will you get lists for everybody goal today is to get tracks on the badger once we get this done we're out of here i don't want to stay any later than i have to i need to find out who my family is again i think i remember what they look like let's do it let's do it yeah ready one hang on two three look at that perfect now that the lower chassis is almost done we can actually start to incorporate the lower suspension and tracks we're basically building the custom suspension for this vehicle so it can actually go up over a curb or stairs so as you go up a stairway this will rotate down and then it'll rotate up and allowing the stairway the actual stairs become closer to the chassis we're trying to get our suspension components in it's kind of difficult because we don't have any engineering drawings of this so we're pretty much going off pictures from last time i just don't want to waste time by not knowing what we're doing you know what i mean we'll be here all night we are really busy the strain that we're putting on the guys right now is starting to show what the is this the thing with foisy is his attitude's been pretty poor boys is in second command under me i need him to be a leader not a complainer we gotta pick it up mike we're gonna clean up a little bit be able to do this all right not just gonna stand around man i i am annoyed because you know i get it in one ear you know we got to go go go go we got so much to do but then you know just have to stop in the middle and start cleaning it's like my eight-year-old when i asked her to do something he spawns around man right now we are so busy i i can't have a bad attitude in the shot you know it'll slow down production he and i have kind of been going back and forth for a couple of days now and it came to a head today um i guess i almost hit him with a gantry that's an excuse i think all right you know that's it run me over with the gantry you out here mike yep mike i was picking up you telling me to get the gantry then you're telling me to pick up i don't know what's up but i didn't do anything to you everything i asked you do i get attitude about i didn't give you attitude and you want the honest truth mike i don't need you next month either okay all right i'm not gonna deal with that so you left ridiculous train is what it is one of my guys wants to walk out keep on walking that's what i say let's shoot this thing this is is really judgment day for us we are trying to simulate what kind of guns that the badger can protect them against 50 cal going down range happy birthday today's sunday and it is my birthday and yes that would make it just birthday too this is our only day off before the final test of the badger so it's really nice to be able to spend some quality time with the family tammy and i always go out of our way to try to get them really cool stuff that they'll really like what else do we have a couple more kids move on they're just like meh whatever i think it might be their mom had them dressed the same for their birthdays here we go this is what they hey matching shirts your favorites birthday's just another day that people get to call us twins and buy us the same clothing and ask ask us to wear them together and jump around like clowns like we're twin clowns and i'm tired of it stainless steel mirror what would that be i'm afraid that when you come back for your trip if you don't tweeze those hairs on a daily basis then you'll be all tucked out when you come back this here is uh is useless to me do i have noise dude happy birthday have a birthday monday morning poisy came to work like nothing had happened on saturday i walked out i was a little upset i have a tendency to lose my temper have you talked to him at all today well what do you want to do oh throw him out of here here's how i see it he walked out i know he's back and everything's fine no issues there was no reprimand for walking out will feels like mike went unpunished this time boise served in the us army over in iraq for us that means a lot and we have a ton of respect for him it's really hard for me to take somebody like foisy and discipline him that guy has done more for this country than any of us in the shop have we had to talk honestly the reason why he still has a job is because he's got a family to support and that was the deciding factor he's got a state of execution on this one will's gonna have to deal with it too and we're all gonna have to get along we have things to do and infighting's not one of them a huge challenge to us as a company has been basically delegating responsibility right now we have will he's our programs manager he's a great engineer he's a great manager and he does truly a tremendous job but right now we are so busy in the shop there is no question we need another foreman like well the question is who's going to step up and take that spot our goal today is to finish the suspension and mount the engine the badge is only 32 inches wide so it can basically fit through a door our biggest challenge is making sure that we can get all those parts to fit within those dimensions very very tough to get this to fit the motor is hitting the side is it yeah that's gonna stop us is this you guys struggling with this or just a bit i personally think we should take these wheels off those four let these bogey beams come together okay we can do that right now we're gonna try to separate our bogey beams so we can allow the track to relax a little bit make it easier to put in and then we'll stretch the track back out it's a a tough system to do that track setup and they're getting it they're getting it pretty quick so i'm happy there we go see it can be done no that's a sweet design boys good job we've been watching jeremy for a week now and uh he's really picked up his game we can give him projects like we give will and i can trust him now that it's actually going to get done right in my opinion he's ready to take on more responsibility jeff and i came to a decision that we need to pull jeremy aside and have a talk with them i just got called into a meeting with mike jeff and will don't you like walking into a meeting and not know what's coming jeremy it's always nerve-racking when you get called in you know because it's like oh what did i do wrong you know all right this is the deal we've had some issues with the hierarchy of this company lately jeff and i are going to give you the second foreman ship leadership position under will you will be above mike and you'll be above josh and and we'll give you a raise i think a big part of this is you're showing leadership goals all right um yeah we've all noticed that and you're and you're also showing a real good drive his work ethic has stepped up uh top notch he doesn't [ __ ] he doesn't moan he he busses his back in here and it's time to reward good behavior it makes me feel great you know it's nice to know that all the hard work pays off um boys we're done let's let's shut down right here we've got the track system on we've got the motor back in it um ready for hydraulics so hopefully tomorrow evening we'll have it running and possibly driving it's an adrenaline junky thing and that's what makes testing these vehicles exciting because you never know what you're going to get it's kind of like a box of chocolates our main goal today is to get the badger running the engine is in but there's a lot of other stuff that we need to do to get this thing up and running jeremy is building the fuel tank tyler is fabricating seat william is actually doing the hydraulics and running all the electronics we have less than a week to finish all this fabrication assemble it all and get it ready for testing our goal is to build and test the badger in the small window that we have before the sr1 order comes in that order can come in any day now we definitely have to get this done before the survival trip it's gonna be long a long few days here super long on monday we basically got the engine in and the tracks on to the hall when you're up against a deadline like this you really need to be a team to make sure you can get stuff done and on tuesday you can really tell that everybody kicked it into high gear everybody's got their projects and they're all ripping into it um it's good to see there you go everyone on the crew is really concentrating working really hard and doing a lot of work that is absolutely beautiful brushed finish whole nine yards too bad we're gonna blow it up right now by the end of wednesday jeremy completely fabricated welded and installed the fuel tank and basically will had fitted all the hydraulics which allows the vehicle to move on thursday will started to grapple with the wiring on the badger yeah it's a little complicated this is the wiring um hopefully everything will line up the wiring for the badger is basically its nerve center so it controls the engine the ignition the throttle the steering the brakes the hydraulics and all the electronics will's adapting the wiring system from our old design and it's turned out to be a real pain in the ass at a certain point it became clear this job is a little too difficult for one person by friday afternoon it was time for us to all team up and get this wiring connected this one here is a motion control where's this supposed to go remember those extra switches yeah that there weren't any switches they were just loose wires that's this one here it was kind of like a nasa think tank to get that wiring done after that whole rigmarole we were definitely concerned this thing wasn't even going to start but by the end of it we threw on the floor through the seat back and we're ready to test it we just started the badge with the first time i like it sky is actually pretty smooth every vehicle we build we build here from scratch it's an adrenaline junky thing to be the first to operate one of these vehicles and that's what makes testing these vehicles exciting because you never know what you're going to get it's kind of like a box of chocolates tomorrow what's our game plan well canopy canopy we achieved our goal today by getting the badger running i'm certainly super happy about that but we still have to do the canopy we still have to do the kevlar lining so we're certainly not out of the woods yet she's up and running though okay gentlemen thank you very much we are in the last hour we have to continue on the badger this is the big deal we have got to get this right the first time all right let's go enough chit chat by the end of the day this thing's going to look like a badger our goal today is to assemble the badgers canopy the pieces are all cut out and now we basically just have to assemble them that's fine nice big one fuel building the canopy is a lot of work um but at the same time it's very rewarding when it's done you can step back and look at it and see why this is such a unique vehicle the guys really came through today they got the canopy welded they got the tracks and suspension finished they got the engine running but we have a serious amount of stuff to do tomorrow i think you guys did a great job considering that once again we're going to be blowing it up it looks good there's something wrong right we thought we were done we have a huge problem so those brakes mike they're not releasing oh my god this is the final day to finish the badger and there's a ton of stuff to do so you know what the guys in this shop are really going to kick some ass today now that the canopy's built we can cut out the access door through a little trial and error we found out that the best way to make the door on the badger is to cut it out after it's all assembled and welded the reason is after you weld steel and it cools it will tend to warp so what you want to do is weld the whole vehicle together let it cool let it warp then cut the door out and that will ensure a perfect fit there's the door we're getting a lot done today especially considering it's a sunday it's never easy for mike and me to ask the guys to work on a weekend my kids want me to go to the beach with them i'm not going at the end of the day i think we all need to suck it up just a little bit the badger can save lives here and if it means we have to forego a little family time and that's what we need to do i wish i could have gone with you guys jeff is an absolutely wonderful dad he loves being with his boys i know it tells him that right now the deadlines for the company and where the company's at that's the sacrifice that he has to make that's just the way it is right now we're all very tired but we're testing the badge in 14 hours that's the real deal we probably have another 48 hours of stuff that we wanted we had some problems with boise last week but i'll tell you what he's really stepped it up and tonight he's working spot off cameron find something to do if you have nothing to do clean i can see you making eyes when i talk by the way and even though camera goofs off a lot he's also here on sunday and he's also kicking some ass there's no more oil than cameron so now that the door has been cut out and smooth we are mounting the door on the hinges now we're painting the badge's body and finally getting to install the kevlar on the interior this is the first and only time i'm going to be between your legs well hope that's not it the addition of the kevlar to the inside of the badger is the key improvement that's going to take the badger to the next level that's going to fit nice on sunday night after incredible effort from cameron will and foisy we were able to take the badger for a spin it worked perfectly and it felt really good to be done with time to spare before the demo yeah it feels good i don't mind it no all right kinda like it in here all right guys good job um today uh this weekend fantastic i mean good job is just so stupid to say with what we did we have some ballistic testing to do hopefully this thing's still in one piece when we get done with it um mike good job isn't it isn't even enough good job william the house after a horribly long weekend well and i came in before the crack of dawn to basically get the badger and put it on the trailer so we can get up to the test facility we thought we were done and we have a huge problem it almost feels like the brakes are locked the brakes definitely seem locked don't they when we went to load the badger on the trailer the hydraulics ceased to function it's those brakes mike i don't know why but they're not releasing it's always something something's wrong with one of the rear pumps to save costs we we bought a used engine it's all because this thing's getting blown out basically my best guess right now the badger has hydraulically locked brakes once it started you actually have to tell the hydraulics to release the pressure or the vehicle won't go anywhere we bought a used motor and this is what we get we'll shoot that we'll blow it up we'll get the information we need from it but just sucks not to have running vehicles for the bomb squad oh my god today's the ballistics and explosive testing so will and i'm going to go ahead and use the full wheel and get this thing loaded on the trailer to get it out to the site good job boys we don't want to market any of our vehicles before we know what they can do before we know what they're capable of that's just irresponsible especially when you're dealing with vehicles that can save lives mike chief chief nice to meet you we have the chief of police from the northbrook police department here with us today his job is basically to observe and give us any feedback he may have okay okay randy get in we built a badger with armor plating that will deflect pretty much any bullet out there but we went one step further with the kevlar liner we took that technology and applied it to the badger if the ballistic steel backed by the kevlar lining is able to stop these rounds we're throwing at it it's going to give us the data and the confidence we need to market the badger across the country as well as worldwide let's shoot this thing all right all right let's try it the first gun we're going to shoot at the badger is a nine millimeter luger we are trying to simulate what an officer is going to see in real life what kind of guns that the badger can protect them against really no damage whatsoever hit the badger with it and absolutely no damage at all very effective the next test is the 500 smith wesson the largest handgun in production in the world it has a wicked kick is a big round shot of that bounce stop just fine that is encouraging look at that that's impressive the m16 i think the badger is gonna laugh at this nice 12 gauge all you really have to worry about is the paint job yeah we actually have a surprise for you today we have a 50 caliber okay the 50 cal is a military grade ammunition it was developed to take out basically vehicles airplanes this is an armor-piercing round so okay we will see what happens it travels at nearly three times the speed of sound for real it is a monster martin hole 50 cal going down range wow now that is around we penetrated the 50 cow took a gouge out of the badger i'm kind of nervous now everything looks okay oh beautiful the kevlar caught it wow that is fantastic chief we stopped at 50. good job some of the shrapnel came through the hull outliner caught it randy didn't get hurt i don't see anything other than boot marks so chief what do you think would you put one of your guys in here i wouldn't hesitate to fantastic news thanks jim we stopped every rifle round so i couldn't be more happy um nothing's bulletproof but this is definitely bolt resistant that's for damn sure it's go time the ballistics testing went really really well now we have to test the badger for a commander of the bomb squad the ballistics testing went really really well now we have to test the badger against explosives so we're traveling about nine miles out of town to test the badger for a commander of a bump squad in the mountains because what we're testing the explosives they can do serious damage this is ballistically resilient here to uh many different rounds you can see we did some ballistics testing on it live fire now we want to see how it cares against the uh explosive my name is sergeant andrew parsons i'm with the new hampshire state police bomb squad i'm commander of the bomb squad there basically what might be encountered for civilian law enforcement i would say that this is going to be pretty accurate today what we're going to be able to set off here right this is is really judgment day for us we know now that the badger does really well in the ballistics realm but now we have to test it for explosives because if we're going to market this to bomb squads we need to make sure it's going to hold up if this fails we've lost 50 grand it's back to the drawing board this is where we keep the goodies darren wakefield is our explosives engineer i brought up some inch and a quarter inch and a half by 16 and 2x16 so a little bit of everything we decided to start slowly with one stick of dynamite to measure what type of damage the shock wave would do to the operator or the vehicle we've actually attached g-shock stickers to the inside and the outside of the vehicle to basically give us an idea of the force involved during this explosion when shockwave that comes in it will actually break a thin piece of glass on the inside releasing the dye turning it red so you now know that the body has received in excess of that g-shock limit we have four levels of g-shock stickers each one of them is represented with a different color 25 50 75 and 100 g's it's safe to say that if the 50 50g and the 75g or even the 100g shock sticker go red there will be some sort of head trauma damage to the victim it's go time five four three two one oh that had a concussion wow it is always fun when things are blowing up and as we expected everything is good on randy the results of the first explosion using dynamite were actually really incredible the outside g-shock stickers basically did show a little bit of elevated g-force but the inside stickers weren't even affected now we're gonna amp things up we're gonna take a fragment grenade we're gonna duct tape it to the door of the badger and see what happens three two one look at that right here just right on the scene i have a clear on the 50 g clear on the 100 g unbelievable we were very happy to see the grenade results when it went off it basically destroyed all of the stickers on the outside massive over pressure but on the inside very survivable and the operator is going to be okay i'm thoroughly thoroughly impressed and to see that somebody could put a grenade on this thing and do nothing absolutely nothing was absolutely astonishing to me we had a grenade less than 12 inches from this 25 g shock sticker a grenade we were able to reduce that so you ready to give it to her now it's time to test the breaking point of the badger let's do it too we've stuffed a ton of explosives under it we don't really know what's gonna happen but my fingers across as the hull will hold together randy i'm very sorry for this but you do deserve it three two one fire in the hole this one's for you randy door's open she's still in one piece holy [ __ ] yeah boom i just saw the track like flying like rotating towards us and i saw pieces of wheels coming at us just flying everywhere oh my word the hull is still intact randy's still in one piece the outside of the badger sustained well over 100 g's basically because the stickers were gone they blew it right off the vehicle the inside of the vehicle the 50 and 100 g-shock stickers did not turn red the 25 g-shock sticker did turn red that tells us the shock load inside that vehicle was between 26 and 49 g's this explosion was survivable there's no damage to randy that i can see physically unbelievable the badger's going to keep the occupant or the operator alive inside between the ballistics test to the explosion test i couldn't be happier we made a very durable vehicle and be able to offer them to uh swat units and and our men and women that fight for us protect us i'm pretty psyched let's get on the trail let's get out of here after a successful test we were definitely excited to get on that survival trip i know it might seem funny to some people but for us getting a chance to go into the woods living the outdoors is a is a real blessing jeff do we have a cell phone just in case we get lost do we have one cell phone no no screw it if we were to equate it after all the work our guys put in force after all the work that we put in this survival trip and going to do this is like it's like a stay at a five star resort i want to first of all say i'm super proud of everybody today we we actually are going to survive tonight i think even though it rained over like an inch or two in this trip you know what it didn't really sound just as much and i'm proud of everybody's attitude don't lose any part of that squirrel it's all sustenance that is i'm doing the socks
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