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Full metal jacket (ammunition)

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The use of full metal jacketing in military ammunition came about in part because of the need for improved feeding characteristics in small arms that used internal mechanical manipulation of the cartridge in order to chamber rounds as opposed to externally hand-reloading single-shot firearms. The
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harder metal used in bullet jackets was less prone to deformation than softer exposed lead, which improved feeding. That also allowed bullets to withstand much higher velocities caused by the decrease of the caliber.
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These .30-caliber (7.62 mm) full metal jacket bullets show the typical jacket openings exposing the lead alloy core on the base of the bullet to illustrate that a full metal jacket may not completely enclose the
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Die Repetir-Gewehre: ihre Geschichte, Entwickelung, Einrichtung und Leistungsfähigkeit; unter besonderer Berücksichtigung amtlicher Schiessversuche und mit Benutzung von Originalwaffen dargestellt
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while he was working for the Swiss Federal Ammunition Factory and Research Center, in fact it was known already in the 1880s that the actual inventor was Prussian Major (later Lt.-Col.)
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of 1899, Declaration III, prohibits the use in international warfare of bullets that easily expand or flatten in the body.
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By design, fully jacketed projectiles have less capacity to expand after contact with the target than a
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Despite a widespread belief that the full metal jacket bullet was invented ca. 1882 by Swiss Colonel
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Type of ammunition consisting of a soft metal core surrounded by a jacket of harder metal
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than bare lead without depositing significant amounts of metal in the
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Examples of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointed ("
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Full Metal Jacket
Full metal jacket (disambiguation)


spitzer
7.62×39mm
rifle
7.62×25mm
pistol
lead
gilding metal
cupronickel
steel
muzzle velocities
bore
armor-piercing
Eduard Rubin
Julius Emil Bode
es
Hague Convention
hollow-point projectile
Soft-point bullet
Total metal jacket
ISBN
0-935554-05-X
OCLC
24498827
"Swiss Handguns 1882"
"The model 1911 Schmidt Rubin: the other Switzer"
the original

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