YouTuber has Rocket Launcher explode in their hands as devastating test goes awry YouTube: Ballistic High-SpeedUS Army veteran Adam Knowles had an RPG-7 explode on him during a recent shoot for the Ballistic High-Speed YouTube channel. Now recovering from the incident, he just watched the footage back for the first time. Content warning: Given the nature of the video in focus, this article discusses the devastating injuries sustained during the shoot. This material may be distressing to some readers. Knowles was the victim of a devastating explosives incident in November. While filming for the Ballistic High-Speed channel, assessing \u201cthe dangers\u201d of back-blast from a range of launchers, an RPG-7 fire didn\u2019t go as planned. Upon triggering the weapon, part of the rocket exploded immediately, knocking Knowles to the ground unconscious in a split moment. The impact breaking his jaw, fracturing his skull, while leaving his body wounded with shrapnel and third-degree burns. Now recovering from the near-catastrophic mishap, the US Army veteran just watched the footage back for the first time, going through the situation as he recalled it. While doing \u201ca lot better\u201d now as the year winds down, he still has a \u201csolid few months\u201d of recovery left to get back to relative normalcy after the explosion. Though in light of \u201cmultiple skin grafts, stiches, and other surgeries,\u201d his medical bills have since piled up to just shy of $300,000. Walking back through the day of the misfire, the YouTubers explained how the shoot consisted of multiple launcher tests, and the RPG-7 happened to be the \u201cfinal shot of the day.\u201d Despite running all the usual safety checks and being as cautious as possible, something went wrong during this last fire and in the blink of an eye, Knowles was \u201con the ground.\u201d \u201cThe Rocket Launcher basically exploded.\u201d With his helmet was sent flying from the force, Knowles was knocked out immediately, well before he even hit the ground. Calling 911 right away, it was some time before a helicopter was able to airlift him to the nearest medical facility. During this period, he had \u201cno recollection of the incident after the countdown.\u201d Back on his feet in the latest video and aiming to make a full recovery over the coming months, Knowles is committed to \u201cmoving forward\u201d with the Ballistic High-Speed YouTube channel. The incident seemingly won\u2019t deter him from future content creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber has Rocket Launcher explode in their hands as devastating test goes awry YouTube: Ballistic High-SpeedUS Army veteran Adam Knowles had an RPG-7 explode on him during a recent shoot for the Ballistic High-Speed YouTube channel. Now recovering from the incident, he just watched the footage back for the first time. Content warning: Given the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}