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From: chenj@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (James Chen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Exploding bullets
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Date: 8 Jun 89 01:01:33 GMT
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From: chenj@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (James Chen)

	I saw on Nightline and the network that the 27th Army is
using exploding bullets on the people in Beijing.  I was curious.
How are they constructed and how do they work?  Why were they
invented?  Are they like little grenades?  If there's no direct
hit, can the fragments do much damage?  (I assume the intent is
to kill soldiers rather than says damage things or scare people.)
The wound must to sizable.  Can people survive?  The papers
report many doctors removing bullets from patients.
Can they be removing fragments of exploding bullets?  Or,
are they ordinary bullets the papers are referring to?

			-Jimmy Chen
			(chenj@cmcl2.nyu.edu)