"this is what we've been asking for!!" A real effective fighting force: (sarc)
"this is what we've been asking for!!" A real effective fighting force: (sarc)
This of course will lower the ballistic Coefficient of the round making it less accurate and shorter ranged.
Will this double or triple the cost of Ammo ?
Copper is expensive, why not use a zink aluminum alloy? Maybe a copper jacket over cast iron would work out better?
Not only is it stupid to seek green ammo ... but, even if environmentally-friendly ammunition were your cause-of-choice, lead bullets aren’t even near the top of the list. Don’t they use depleted uranium anti-tank shells and cluster munitions?
Good grief.
SnakeDoc
If we started a rumor that all our bullets are coated with a pig-fat based lubricant, we would have to use a lot less of them
Insane.
I don't give a damn about another country's "environment" when they have done something, anything that draws our troops there. F'em.
As long as the bullets incorporate a pork based lubricant, I’m fine with it.
Well in another green initiative, they are replacing Marines with Gays. Marines are defiantly not environmentally friendly.
The part of the military that has and deserves respect is the solder/airman/sailer.
The part of the military that deserves derision and scorn is the “leadership” comprised of rank and status seeking poorly educated politican generals and admirals - few, of any - who think of anything other than the latest politically correct move.
They - as their leader the Obamadork - are scum.
Pure scum.
Insanity.
War isn’t something where we worry about being “green”
How green was Germany when we finished with it, or Korea.
I wonder if the 1.6 Billion bullets ordered for the IRS, and Social Security administration are “green” They are for killing Americans not for the enemy.
If this is true, then why in the heck have all the governmental agencies from HLS to the IRS been buying up all the ammo. Are they going to chuck all of that into the Potomac now? So they can use these green turd bullets? You know this crap has been in the pipeline for a couple of years now.
Lead bullets are NOT the same type of lead say, in lead paint that people freak about. This is complete BS. It's a fallacy.
I repeat: This is Step 3 of the deliberate sabotage of our military.
So? I’ve known for the last forty years that the anti-lead panic was really to ban ammo.
For those interested, the FRENCH used solid bronze bullets about 100 years ago.
What’s next, GREEN Nuclear weapons? Geeez!
Great idea. Copper bullets. And now all the meth heads will be stealing them to sell for their habit.
This means the end of lead bullets, and the start of civilian ammo costing 5x what it does now, based on the price of copper vs lead.
Hard to hand-cast copper.
Besides keeping the battlefield green, these rounds will also avoid lead poisoning of enemy combatants when we shoot them.
Rumor is the development of new “nerf” bombs.
New etiquette training will also be enforced such as no profanity by service people and scheduling appointments for drone attacks.