The blemished suppressor in that video was a pre-production unit that already had a crack (printing error) on the edge of the end cap. I posted it partly as a joke to show what a clear “warranty void” looks like, but also to illustrate the amount of heat generated by an 11.5” 5.56 doing mag dumps. That kind of heat will push titanium past its limits, and in this case it failed exactly where it was already weak—the crack.
To contrast, I ran one of my production demos through 60 rounds on a 16” 6.5 PRC. The difference in barrel length alone was obvious: the 5.56 suppressor turned glowing red, while the 6.5 only went blue. That experiment was just to show how much barrel length impacts heat generation.
Could I do another full burn-down on a production unit? Sure. But honestly, there’s not much point in destroying a perfectly good demo I still use just to prove the same thing again: short 5.56 barrels generate way more heat than a bolt-action rifle, even under hard use. This was proven when after 30 rounds the BLEM was glowing red yet after 20 round on a 16" 6.5 PRC it as just starting to change color.