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  2. Cast bullet - Wikipedia

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    Lead could be cast in a ladle over a wood fire used for cooking or home heating, while casting iron required higher temperatures. Greater density of lead allowed lead bullets to retain velocity and energy better than iron bullets of the same weight and initial firing velocity. [2] Minié balls of the mid-19th century could be either cast or swaged.

  3. Minié ball - Wikipedia

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    The Minié ball is a cylindro-conoidal bullet with grease-filled cannelures on its exterior and a cone-shaped hollow in its base.Minié designed the bullet with a small iron plug, and lead skirting that would expand under the pressure of gunpowder deflagration causing the bullet to obturate, and grip the rifling grooves.

  4. Fragmentation (weaponry) - Wikipedia

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    Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.

  5. List of weapons of the Rhodesian Bush War - Wikipedia

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    M/969 anti-personnel mine: Portuguese copy of the Belgian NR 409 plastic cased AP blast mine. Shrapnel No.2 R2M1/2: South African-produced anti-personnel blast mine. Mk 5 anti-tank mine; Mine Pressure HE Anti-Vehicle: locally-produced round convex pressure mine, moulded in Drab Green plastic and fitted with an anti-lift device. [133]

  6. Claymore mine - Wikipedia

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    The Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large medieval Scottish sword . [ citation needed ] Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore may be command-detonated (fired by remote-control), and is directional, shooting a wide ...

  7. 3-inch ordnance rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Confederate States manufactured an estimated 84 cast iron 3-inch rifles, at least 61 of them at the Tredegar Iron Works; [9] several appear to be imitations of the U.S. Ordnance Department design. [10] However, the Tredegar guns were manufactured with cast iron and earned a bad reputation for bursting in action. [11]

  8. In one U.S. town, residents are legally required to own guns ...

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    The city law, dating back to the 1980s, makes it a requirement for residents to own guns and ammo. Kennesaw's gun law states: "In order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general ...

  9. Anti-personnel weapon - Wikipedia

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    A debate has arisen over whether some primarily anti-material weapons can be used as anti-personnel weapons. The Barrett M82 rifle, standardized by the U.S. military as the M107, fires a large-caliber .50 BMG round that will penetrate most commercial brick walls and concrete blocks.