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Originally Posted by Peregrino
APLP - Hopefully you've got a great sausage recipe because you sure are making a lot of it. Have you tried putting these through a suppressor yet? And have you done any testing in excess of 150m? TR shared the hunting video with me "a while ago" and I was wondering if you had any recent controlled tests for accuracy/terminal ballistics in the 150 to 300 meter range. My apologies to the pigs, I know it's harder to do long range testing repeatably and humanely but those are the critical engagement ranges where the current ammo has been reported to perform below expectations. You've more than proven the point to anyone who will listen about the short range performance. At this stage the only thing left to do is find a way around the ones who won't listen. Good luck with that - especially the ones who've tied their egos to the position they're defending. Here's my wishes to you for a Happy (and prosperous) New Year getting quantities of your product in the hands of the right people where it will do the most good. (Side Note: TR and I spent some time last week on Ft Bragg. Part of it was spent listening to an 18D complain about having to treat indig's w/gunshot wounds 2-3 days after a firefight - something he probably would not have had to do if the good guys had been shooting your stuff. Not that he was complaining about the practice, just that it was taking time away from treating the women and children he wanted to help - the ones that would really affect the future "hearts and minds" - and that wouldn't be waiting to ambush another good guy as soon as they were healed up.) Peregrino
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Peregrino,
Thanks for your encouragement. Although we have not had any of the congressional RDT&E funding made available to conduct dedicated testing for the SRAP ammunition, from what we have been able to facilitate so far the ammunition works well through suppressors.
The light weight high speed rounds provide the greatest increase in mission capability for the short barreled weapon systems. Although the SRAP rounds provide hard armor and reduced tissue over penetration within CQB and close urban warfare environments, the observed non armored tissue fragmentation energy requirements are much less than M-855 or M-262 ammunition. Without a direct comparison hogs to humans testing evaluation, we would expect the Le Mas AP rounds to provide effective non armored tissue bullet fragmentation as shown below.
10.5" 1/7 at 200 yards
12.0" 1/7 at 275 yards
14.5" 1/7 at 300 yards
16.0" 1/8 at 350 yards
18.0" 1/9 at 400 yards
20.0" 1/9 at 425 yards