Re: "special" bullets


"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:32:11 +0100, in uk.politics.misc, for Re:
"special"
bullets, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx>, wrote

The idea in all cases is the same - to lodge all of the bullet's KE in
the target.

All frogs can jump.


The best 'bloody silly idea' about bullets has to be the great US Army
discarding sabot rifle bullet.

The US Government was, at that time, busy fighting the late and unlamented
USSR through their loyal Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and it was decided
that the good old Muslims needed some sort of technological edge.

So it was decided to make a round that would go right through a bullet proof
vest/flak jacket of the day.

Tests were done and the US developed a round that was a Teflon coated sliver
of steel projected by sabots and fired like an ordinary rifle round.

The steel slivers went straight through Kevlar jackets without a pause.

"Great!" Went the US weapons designers. "We've got a world beater here..."

"Erm... Hadn't we better test it on a Russian bullet proof vest?"

The word was sent to Afghanistan...

"Get us a Russian bullet proof vest"

In due course the garment, suitably blood stained, arrived.

It looked nothing like the Kevlar flak jackets used by the US Army.

It looked like a lot of small square pockets, each about the size of a pack
of cards, sewn together.

In each pocket was a very light metal slab about 5mm thick.

"What the f*#k's that?"

It turned out that the metal plates were titanium, a cheap metal in the old
Soviet Union, and the clever Teflon coated steel slivers just shattered on
them.

The US had spent millions and managed to develop a weapon useful only
against themselves and their allies...

Discarding sabot rifle ammunition was never put into production...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.






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