Plastic 5.56mm Blank Cartridge

Abstract

An expendable plastic 5.56mm blank cartridge for the M16Al rifle has been developed and tested successfully. The prototype cartridge cases were molded in a 4-cavity production-type mold to insure that the tested cartridges would be produceable in quantity without sacrificing quality. This cartridge performs satisfactorily in the semiautomatic mode of fire and operates the rifle reliably in the fully automatic mode when using the standard blank firing attachment (.063-inch orfice). This blank cartridge will outperform the M200 blank cartridge in feeding and equals its other performance characteristics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA003222

Entities

People

  • Neal C. Wogsland

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Automatic
  • Ball Ammunition
  • Cartridge Cases
  • Corporations
  • Costs
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Propellants
  • Prototypes
  • Reliability
  • Semiautomatic
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Weapons

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  • Software Engineering
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