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It appears that this round can drastically improve the performance of any AR-15 weapon chambered to .223/5.56 mm. Superior accuracy, wounding capacity, stopping power and range have made this the preferred round of many special forces operators, and highly desirable as a replacement for the older, Belgian-designed 5.56×45mm SS109/M855 NATO round.
An assortment of .30-caliber (7.62 mm) round-nose bullets illustrating the exposed lead tip characteristic of soft-point bullets. Some soft point bullets have a more aerodynamic contour like these spitzer boat-tail bullets. A soft-point bullet (SP), also known as a soft-nosed bullet, is a jacketed expanding bullet with a soft metal core ...
Examples of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointed ("spitzer") loaded in the 7.62×39mm rifle and round-nosed loaded in the 7.62×25mm pistol cartridges A full metal jacket ( FMJ ) bullet is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead ) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal ...
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]
5.56×24mm vs 22TCM case 5.56×24mm and 22TCM9R in ETS Glock mags 5.56×24mm with Speer 40gr Soft Points, next to 9mm at the back. Basically '223 short', it was designed as a more efficient pistol caliber, attaining velocities of 2,000 fps out of a pistol, and 2,800 fps out of a rifle.
Also used are bullets similar to hollow-point bullets or soft-point bullets whose cores and/or jackets are deliberately weakened to cause deformation or fragmentation upon impact. The Warsaw Pact 5.45×39mm M74 assault rifle round exemplifies a trend that is becoming common in the era of high velocity, small caliber military rounds. The 5.45× ...
Jacketed soft point (JSP): In the late 19th century, the Indian Army at Dum-Dum Arsenal, near Kolkata, developed a variation of the FMJ design where the jacket did not cover the nose of the bullet. The soft lead nose was found to expand in the flesh while the remaining jacket still prevented lead fouling in the barrel.
The "D" was at the 9 o'clock position and the Indian property mark was at 3 o'clock. They invented and manufactured the .303 Mk.II Special, a soft-point semi-jacketed Ball cartridge for the Enfield Rifle that was later banned by the Hague Convention. D↑F Dum Dum Factory – Dum Dum, Calcutta, West Bengal state, India.