Watch as an iMac with Retina 5K display squares off against an anti-tank cannon

[Shawn Knight]

As a technology aficionado, I find it uncommonly satisfying to watch gadgets get blasted to smithereens. It’s simply a “durability test,” right?

In this recently published video, YouTube user FullMag pits Apple’s iMac with Retina 5K display up against a T8 90mm AT (anti-tank) cannon. Call me crazy but I don’t like the iMac’s chances.

There’s plenty of slow-motion goodness showing both the round’s exit from the cannon and it’s impact with the iMac. Enjoy!

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[stewi0001]

As fun as it is to watch a cannon fire, I'm tired of all these tech destroying videos.

 

[CorvusCorax]

I'm actually surprised at how much the round was deflected!

 

[davislane1]

I'm all for blowing s*** up, but these videos where anti-armor/material weaponry is shot at a tech device got old after Myth Busters did it several years back. Shoot something interesting or save the round.

 

[VitalyT]

Idiocy is contagious. Absolute idiocy is contagious absolutely.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Don't these people have better things to do?

 

[stewi0001]

Don't these people have better things to do?

nope, because they are making money by doing this. Sadly...

 

[captaincranky]

Where the hell, or how the hell, does one go about getting his hands on an anti-tank cannon in the first place?

Is this some of those "deep web shenanigans"? Should I install TOR? Would that help?

 

[captaincranky]

I'm all for blowing s*** up, but these videos where anti-armor/material weaponry is shot at a tech device got old after Myth Busters did it several years back. Shoot something interesting or save the round.

With that being said, IMHO, anything Apple makes has it coming anyway!

 

[OneSpeed]

I'm actually surprised at how much the round was deflected!

It did what it was built to do, let's not think for a minute that the obstruction was able to stand up to any part of that round.

 

[davislane1]

Where the hell, or how the hell, does one go about getting his hands on an anti-tank cannon in the first place?

Like any other forbidden fruit, you gotta know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy. The longer the chain, the greater the goodies.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I know a guy in the White House. Pretend you are not an American and you can get anything you want.

 

[davislane1]

I know a guy in the White House. Pretend you are not an American and you can get anything you want.

Si?

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Where the hell, or how the hell, does one go about getting his hands on an anti-tank cannon in the first place?

Is this some of those "deep web shenanigans"? Should I install TOR? Would that help?

Isn't it written somewhere in your country's constitution that all Americans have the right to bear artille... um... arms.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

nope, because they are making money by doing this. Sadly...

How the hell does someone go about making money by blowing stuff up for fun on YouTube? And how the heck do they get their hands on artillery pieces? I thought only the military could play with those toys.

 

[davislane1]

How the hell does someone go about making money by blowing stuff up for fun on YouTube? And how the heck do they get their hands on artillery pieces? I thought only the military could play with those toys.

1. Ad revenue
2. You can own whatever weapons you want over here so long as (1) you have the appropriate license and (2) local law enforcement will authorize the transaction.

 

[VitalyT]

Nothing surprised me in this video, except that the Mac didn't withstand the shot.

 

[9Nails]

Eff it! I'm trying this at home!

 

[LenovoX]

Don't these people have better things to do?

no, they don't... it's to much to ask them to help a underfunded school with a computer or a monitor... stupid rednecks!

 

[liftedplane]

Wouldn't better to do it at a distance using an HE round (High explosive) would've looked alot cooler

I've done a 105mm direct fire at about 900 meters before, there's nothing quite like it.