ARMOR-PIERCING BULLET FOR SMALL ARM Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC F42B12/00 F42B12/40 F42B12/06 F42B30/02 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: proposed bullet comprises shell with tapered nose to house lead jacket and hard-alloy core with sharpened nose. Shell nose is shaped to truncated cone. Bullet comprises appoint secured to nose shell truncated part without deteriorating bullet geometry. At least, 80% of hard-alloy core is embedded into point material. Point material fills the entire space between inner surface of shell nose and outer nose part of hard-alloy core. Point material is a plastic metal or alloy that makes a solid grease. Hard-allot core length makes (2.36-3.58)d, cylindrical part diameter makes (0.71-0.86)d. nose sharpened part length makes (0.58-3.70)d where d is bullet diameter. Point weight makes (0.05-0.5) of shell weight.

EFFECT: higher piercing capacity.

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