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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)
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Subject: Re: New Soviet Small-Arm Round
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Date: 1 Sep 89 08:02:43 GMT
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From: jln@portia.Stanford.EDU (Jared Nedzel)


In _War in Afghanistan_, by Mark Urban, the author says that the AK-74
(the replacement for the AK-47) uses a 5.45mm round. Unfortunately, the 
author gives no other dimensions or ballistics information, except to 
claim that the round is designed to be unstable upon entry into the body,
thus tumbling and causing more serious wounds.

-- 
Jared L. Nedzel
e-mail: nedzel@cive.stanford.edu
        jln@portia.stanford.edu