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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Caseless ammo
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Date: 27 Oct 89 03:29:10 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <10572@cbnews.ATT.COM> amoss%BATATA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) writes:
>  The caseless 4.7mm round for the (still experimental) H&K G-11 AR. There
>is a multitude of round types.
>
>  The round itself  looks like this (very rough):
>
>  :-----------:
>  :           ----\
>  :           ----/
>  :-----------:
>
>  :--powder---:projectile:
>
>
>  The powder block is really boxlike, albeit with rounded corners. I read
>an article about it quite some time ago (1.5 years?), and the rifle was
>deemed excellent. Any comments?

Minor innacuracy.  That was the _old_ G11 ammo.  the new stuff looks like 
(drum roll please...)

      --------------------------|
     |           _______________|
     |*          |/----_____
     |*          |\____-----
     |*          ---------------|
     |__________________________|

     ^primer       ^bullet^
    [propellant completely surrounds the projectile.]

This was done to help counter the cook-off tendencies... or indirectly.  They 
had to derate the propellant to prevent cookoff, needed more, and moved
the boundary forward...


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George William Herbert  UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!)
maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu  gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu
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