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Tungsten electrodes for armor piercing bullets
Ignoramus26744 wrote:
This is purely an idle question. I have no interest in doing this, for many reasons. The main reason is that 7mm rem mag is armor piercing even if bullets are made from dung. Anyway. I have some 4.8mm (3/16) tungsten electrodes (lanthanated). I could, conceivably, cast some bullets for a 7mm rem mag rifle with the electrode pieces inside, that would be quite armor piercing. Would they go through, say, 1 inch thick mild steel plate, assuming propellant loads that are safe for the rifle? I'm no expert on armor at all. But, ONE INCH? Have you seen what the Army and Air Force use for armor piercing ammo? Like the 30 mm rounds for the A-10? These things weigh a whole POUND each, and are SOLID U-238 (both hard and heavy as hell!) The armor they are trying to pierce is about that thick, as far as I know. A tank couldn't possibly have steel armor too much more than an inch thick, or it would be too heavy to move. Jon |
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