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Huey » 27 Jun 2022, 7:42 am » wrote: ↑

27 Jun 2022, 7:42 am

Part 2:

I suggest you read this:

Exaggerated claims were made by Colt prior to the shift from the M14 to the Ar-15/M16. One commercial asserted: "Unsurpassed as a Sniper Rifle both accurate and lethal, at 500 yards the AR-15 makes a complete penetration of 10-gauge steel, or both sides of a steel helmet. On impact the tumbling action of the .223 caliber ammunition increases effectiveness." But bullets do not ‘tumble’. They may yaw and rotate 180 degrees within the body, but the standard definition of “tumble” suggests turning end-over-end through a full 360 degrees. This rarely happens.
 Sweden raised complaints about the M16 and its 5.56x45mm M193 projectile during and following the Viet Nam War. But the diplomatic conference that produced the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons agreed that wounding characteristics of modern military small arms weapons and ammunition did not provide a basis for a new small arms protocol. More recently, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) objected to the terminal ballistics of contemporary military small arms ammunition and their alleging inconsistencies with the law of war.
(and then there is this again):
 There were complaints that the diminutive 5.56x45mm projectile failed to incapacitate enemy combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through-and-through wounds consistently failed to render the targeted enemy hors de combat, necessitating a soldier shooting his target ten or more times before he ceases to be a threat.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military ... ns/556.htm