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From: vestal@klemmer.src.honeywell.com (Steve Vestal)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Exploding bullets
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Date: 16 Jun 89 03:34:05 GMT
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From: vestal@klemmer.src.honeywell.com (Steve Vestal)

In article <7473@cbnews.ATT.COM> ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!cyrius@cs.utexas.edu (Juan Chen) writes:
>                  ...all ammunition under 400grams (Haven't figured out
>   how many grains that would be) cannot be hollow point and have to be
>   fully coverd by a metal jacket.

>                  As someone posted you'll use whatever is effective,
>   but then again you'd be a war criminal ...

I was once told this is one of the few rules of war likely to be obeyed,
precisely because it is effective.  The figure I was given was that
1 wounded required 10 additional personnel to evacuate, treat, etc.
Given an enemy with certain social views, the goal in combat is to
wound, not to kill, and a full jacket helps improve this ratio.