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To: null and void
".45mm "

What???? Wait... 0.45mm... Bull#$%#!

I believe the author meant a segmented 45 caliber... but I could be wrong.

And this has been tried before.

he separation physics is very sensitive to things like minute differences in mass of the facets, wind, perturbations from the sabot separation process and for various other reasons doesn't work well in live fire.

20 posted on 02/07/2014 10:58:40 AM PST by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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he separation physics is very sensitive to things like minute differences in mass of the facets, wind, perturbations from the sabot separation process and for various other reasons doesn’t work well in live fire.”

Can you imagine how much those quarter moon shaped projectiles will tumble and fly off at random angles? There is a reason bullets are shaped the way they are.


35 posted on 02/07/2014 11:10:14 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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"And this has been tried before."

It was a called Triton, and it was advertised as being invented by the guy that invented Hydroshock. The company didn't last too long. I think that I still have a box.

45 posted on 02/07/2014 11:15:55 AM PST by matthew fuller (Our enemy list- http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2004/anti-gun-lobbying-organizations..)
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