Holy Blue Screen of Death, Batman…
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WTF is a rising barricade anyway?
It’s a post that lifts from the ground to block an entry and they are usually designed to stop a heavily laden truck.
lol. Smith & Wesson security had some gates that the electronics failed on. This was at a Bank of America data center in the Midwest. It lifted a fire truck off the ground to where neither axles were touching the ground. Like a full 2-3 foot off the ground.
One of their reps challenged any of us to get through the barricade. I had serious thoughts about taking my Jeep over it.
We installed these at the USAF base I drilled at. They claimed it would stop anything short of an Abrams A-1. I think a properly loaded deuce and a half would probably go over it too. A lot depends upon the height and the overall construction below the street.
We also had the steel plate barricades which would pop up hydraulically.
Of course, there was a simple chain link fence about 50 yards away which you could easily penetrate, but they had plans to reinforce it, too. This was all installed after the start of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
A friend of mine worked at Lockheed in Ft Worth. He said there was this crazy lady that drove through the gate. Security was said to be right on her tail, however she beat the barricades only to have security stuck on the other side of them. He said it was pretty funny to watch. I believe he said they adjusted the timing after that.
Side note, I worked with a guy who lives in Jersey. He told me that the high security mansions with say a VIP with a kid, the speed was monitored so if you tried to speed off, the gates would automatically close. IIRC 12 miles an hour rings a bell for the trip point to make the gates close.
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I’ve seen enough videos like this
to make me re-think live-testing ANY of those. Even the crappy installed ones would make for a bad day.
Those are the bollards installed for filmed tests…then there are some that were put in at HAAF (Hood Army Air Field) where the 'good old boy contractors stuffed several steel pipes with wadded up papers and topped them with concrete. Perhaps it was a Friday afternoon?
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…”
I’m no expert on the topic, but I’m thinking they’ll fly better if you didn’t freeze them before throwing them out of the plane. Of course, given the conditions, location, and altitude, it might actually make no difference at all.
This reminds me of the various chicken gun/cannon tests…
I worked at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Some of the original chicken testing was done there in the late 40’s/early fifties. I saw copies of some correspondence with the British MoD that was probably the basis of the meme.
SwRI also did a lot of early crash test dummy development. They had a 50 foot catapult track that used cadavers…
… many interesting stories.
I went to a Mariah Carey Christmas concert and a hockey game broke out…
Something worth fighting over, Vince Vance and the Valiants’ version of the song is much better than Mariah’s any day!
