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The .303 British Cartridge, with information on the original Dum-Dum bullet, and the subsequent MK III through MKV hollow-point bullets. Dum-Dum Bullet Testing Archived 2010-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, with tests of dum-dum rounds fired into jugs of water. Bullet Impact Comparison, results of bullets designed for different expansion and ...
Lt.-Col. Neville Sneyd Bertie-Clay [4] (22 July 1864 – 17 October 1938) was a British army officer. He served in the Royal Artillery and in the Royal Garrison Artillery, but spent much of his career on secondment to the Indian Ordnance Department of the Indian Army. Bertie-Clay invented the dum dum soft-pointed bullet in 1896 as the Mark II ...
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A 9mm hollow point cartridge, along with unexpanded and expanded bullets. The expanded lead bullet and copper jacket are separated. A hollow-point bullet is a type of expanding bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile's energy into the target over a shorter distance.
The battle was the first time that the Mark IV hollow point bullet, made in the arsenal in Dum Dum, was used in a major battle. It was an expanding bullet, and the units that used it considered them to be highly effective. [13] Controversy over the killing of the wounded after the battle, began soon afterwards. [14]
While the Indian Army was equipped with highly effective dum-dum bullets produced in India, British bullets sent to Egypt were simply pointed, and 1,000,000 rounds had to have their ends filed off to increase their effectiveness. The rough remodelling made the bullets inaccurate at long ranges, giving soldiers a choice of bullets able to hit ...
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The Dum Dum Arsenal was a British military facility located near the town of Dum Dum in modern West Bengal, India. [1]The arsenal was at the centre of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, caused in part by rumours that the paper cartridges for their muzzle-loading rifles, which they were expected to bite open, were greased with pig lard (a problem for Muslims) or cow fat (a problem for Hindus).