User blog:Tsubori/Hypersonic RWBY characters? It's more likely than you think

As some of you know, I calculate many things. Here's one that gives us a speed glance at RWBY characters.

The shells and manners in which she employs the bullets (heavy recoil to boost physical strikes and speed) seem to imply shotgun slugs. It seems pretty viable that they'd have the same muzzle velocity as any regular shotgun.

Wikipedia has muzzle velocity for shotgun slugs at 500m/s.



Just ignore the blue lines. I realized it was easier to scale from where it's actually shot from.

The feat is pretty straightforward. One of the twins that Yang fights cuts a bullet out of the air.

According to this very wiki, Yang is 17 years of age. World average for females of this age is more or less 1.6m.

(1.6/393.75)20=0.0812698412698413m

0.0812698412698413/500=0.0001625396825396826s

(1.6/393.75)341.22=1.3865447619047619m

s=rtheta

Where she cut the bullet seems to be about a fourth of a full rotation, so 90 degrees.

s=1.3865447619047619(pi/2)

s=2.1779794189367044981m

2.1779794189367044981/0.0001625396825396826=13400m/s

or about mach 39.

Due to obvious fight assumptions, this calc also applies to Yang, and by connection, Junior. Also, keep in mind, whenever Yang fights someone and they seem on even ground with Yang being serious about the fight, that person is granted similar speeds.