ARMOR PIERCING BULLETS WITH SINTERED CARBIDE CORES

Abstract

Special bullets, both caliber .30 and .50, of standard A.P. dimensions with sintered carbide cores, were investigated in firings against face-hardened and homogeneous armor plate at normal and oblique impact. Against face-hardened plate at normal impact, the carbide bullets showed far greater penetrating ability for a given energy than the corresponding standard A.P. bullets; while at obliquities the penetrating ability of the carbide bullets relative to that at normal deteriorated more rapidly than that of the standard, the carbide bullets, however, still maintaining an absolute degree of diminishing superiority up to about 30 degrees.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1941
Accession Number
AD0702256

Entities

People

  • J. Leeder

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ammunition
  • Armor Plate
  • Compressive Strength
  • Diameters
  • Elements
  • Hardness
  • Impact
  • Materials
  • Metal Matrix Composites
  • Photographs
  • Physical Properties
  • Projectiles
  • Recovery
  • Small Arms
  • Specific Gravity
  • Tungsten Carbides

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.
  • ballistics.