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  I feel like I've heard this story before, but with an American soldier in Iraq.
context: The pressure that surgeons are under to ensure their patients survive is huge but this surgery had the risk of killing everyone in the room if the surgeon made a mistake. >
  
  Came here to say this 👆 Hope the surgeon is retired and on a beach somewhere now 🍹 >
  
  With the war still going on, unlikely.  Probably isn't the first or last time his own life will have been at risk during a procedure.  Lets hope he makes it through and can retire. >
  
  How does a grenade... that hasn't exploded... get logged in someones chest? >
  
  Grenades from rifle-mounted grenade launchers must travel a minimum distance before they arm themselves. It is possible that this soldier took a grenade shot at point-blank range while the grenade still had enough energy to penetrate flesh but before it armed itself.
  Edit: the exact numbers depend on the type of grenade used, but a Russian Vog-25 grenade weighs 250 grams and travels at around 250 feet per second muzzle velocity. Minimum arming distance can be as low as 33 feet.
  A steel grenade with that speed and mass could easily have enough energy to penetrate right into your soft bits and break whatever bones get in its way. Honestly, if it didn't hit bone at all, I wouldn't be surprised to hear about one punching straight through someone's abdomen. >
  
  What's the arming mechanism though? I mean I guess no matter what it was getting trapped in a slab of human flesh was enough to prevent it from arming but is there like a timed fuse, or what? >
  
  Typically number of rotations of spin after firing. It doesn’t arm unless it goes a minimum distance as a safety mechanism to protect the gun crew in the case of jams or misfires. >
  
  Exactly correct. This is why it is absolutely imperative, when impaled by a 40mm grenade, to refrain from cartwheeling - no matter how much you may want to in the moment. >
  
  Don't forget that the earth is slowly spinning too. So their days are numbered. >
  
  Engineers would be absolutely screwed if speed and acceleration were not easily differentiated between. >
  
  I know one case of a Russian rocket that had the abort stage fire on the pad after entering a hold. Turns out the gyro detected the rocket starting to tilt after so many minutes. It was actually the earth spinning.
  I think the fix for this was moving the set vertical calibration closer to the launch time, with multiple resets. >
  
  Survived a real life noob tube attack. Good job on everyone in that medical team. >
  
  I remember a similar case where a lady was admitted to the hospital with an unexploded rpg embedded in her jaw. This was in Mexico during the 2000s. >
  
  Do you know how large a rpg is? You’re trolling >
  
  So many men think they have an RPG when in reality it's a 9mm Para >
  
  One time, my dad removed a penny from behind my ear, so I understand what this guy is going through. >
  
  That was my first thought too. Dunno if that was based on a real event though. >
  
  I believe it was. The producers and writers of MASH did extensive research/interviews and wove the details into the show. >
  
  Greys Anatomy called, they want their episode plot back >
  
  It was an episode of MASH before that! >
  
  Is this a Grey's Anatomy episode? >
  
  I feel like "Unexploded" is a given, here. >
  
  I fail to see how this is oniony. Could somebody explain to me? (Serious) >
  
  This is... A really good point. Just because a headline is hard to believe doesn't mean it reads like satire >
  
  That X-ray is the wrong way around >
  
  I seem to recall an episode of MAS*H where something similar happened >
  
  So he got shot with a 40mm, didn’t die from the shot AND it didn’t explode? Dude please play mega millions tonight >
  
  "Doctor, would you care to assist me performing surgery on a photon torpedo?"
  "Fascinating". >
  
  The balls on that fucking surgeon, goddamn…