knockdown power is a myth.
You can penetrate a human, but nothing remotely the size of a bullet can knock a man down.
You can penetrate certain parts. If you get his spine or brain stem he will fall, but will not be knocked down.
If you penetrate the heart or large blood vessels, comeing from it, the target will bleed out, but will not be knocked down.
Lavoisier the French Scientist who discovered oxygen was sentenced to death. His last experiment was to blink his eyes as long as possible after the knife cut his neck. It took 16 seconds for that head to die....
You can call it knock down power, you can call it stopping power, you can call it lethality, or whatever semantics you want.
At the end of the day, from my personal experience, and others that I know, 7.62x39 and 7.62x54 is more effective at incapacitating/killing than 5.56x54 rounds.
I have also seen from personal experience U.S. troops, engaged with the enemy, pick up enemy weapons for use against the enemy.
How long some french bastard blinked his eyes after he was decapitated has nothing to do with it.
>>>>knockdown power is a myth.
You can penetrate a human, but nothing remotely the size of a bullet can knock a man down.
You can penetrate certain parts. If you get his spine or brain stem he will fall, but will not be knocked down.
If you penetrate the heart or large blood vessels, comeing from it, the target will bleed out, but will not be knocked down.
Lavoisier the French Scientist who discovered oxygen was sentenced to death. His last experiment was to blink his eyes as long as possible after the knife cut his neck. It took 16 seconds for that head to die....<<<<
Knockdown power is not a myth. It is directly related to a size, shape of ammunition and muzzle velocity.
Learn about kinetic energy.