Cartridges in section
Everyone dreamed of cutting their favorite thing and understand what it was made of? The most interesting was always in the forbidden, namely in weapons. Here, for example, cartridges ... It turns out that they have an amazingly rich inner world, not that of poets and intellectuals of all kinds. After all, you cut the poet in a biology lesson - what is there to look at? 
These bullets will hit you in the heart, no one will leave them indifferent. From the inside, war toys look so terrible that you do not even know whether to love them or adore them.
The cartridge (unitary cartridge, Latin unitas - "unity") - a munition of small arms and small caliber (up to 76 mm) guns, which the weapon is charged in one receive.
A unitary cartridge may be an artillery shot or cartridge in which a projectile (bullet, canister or charge of a shot), a charge of gunpowder, an igniting element (primer-igniter) and, sometimes, additional elements are joined together by a sleeve. The term "unitary cartridge" appeared in the XIX century - the design of earlier cartridges did not include a capsule that was charged separately.
Cartridges and cartridges
Cut cartridges
Cartridge caliber 5.56x45 mm
A 5.56x45 mm caliber cartridge with a hard-alloy armor-piercing bullet and a copper tray to protect the barrel of the gun barrel and improve obturation.
Obturation is to ensure the integrity of the barrel when shot.
If you remember, add 10 to your IQ and look further.
Experienced cartridge XM216 caliber 5.56x45 mm (.223 Remington)
Experienced cartridge XM216 caliber 5.56x45 mm (.223 Remington) with a calibrated feathered swept bullet.
Such a high-speed shooter punches the Kevlar armor, so that the bulletproof vest does not save you - just the icon of the blessed Matrona.
The company Frankford Arsenal released it for the participants of the American program SPIW - Springfield Armory and Winchester. 1965-1970.
Special cartridge 7,62x5,6 mm Salvo Squeezebore with three brass bullets
Special cartridge 7,62x5,6 mm Salvo Squeezebore with three brass bullets.
Designed for special weapons: the rear of the barrel is rifled cylindrical, and the front - conical, smooth.
In the rifled part, all three bullets move under the action of the powder gases as a single whole, but in the conical section of the bullet they are compressed, the rear ones are forced out from the front and from the trunk they leave separately.
Because of the reduction of the bullets, the caliber is indicated through the shot, since in the beginning the bullet has a caliber of 7.62 mm, and during the movement along the barrel channel it decreases to 5.6 mm.
And so these transformers came up in the 1970s!
Next on the list are training cartridges. As you know from the movies with Schwarzenegger, the rifle bullet remains lethal at a distance of several kilometers. At a miss on the target or its penetration (guaranteed at a distance of training fire of one and a half hundred meters), the bullet can mess things up. To simplify the construction of shooting galleries, during the training of personnel, special cartridges with a destructible light bullet or a reduced amount of gunpowder are used.
Training cartridge L14A1 for the standard NATO caliber 7,62x54 mm (.308 Winchester)
The training cartridge L14A1 for the standard NATO caliber is 7.62x54 mm (.308 Winchester) with a lightweight alloy plastic sleeve and plastic tracer bullet.
It is produced for the British Army by the German company Dynamit Nobel AG. The 1990s.
Training cartridge 7,92x57 Mauser
Training cartridge 7,92x57 Mauser.
A conventional shell bullet, but an inert substance instead of gunpowder.
Swedish training cartridge 6.5x55 mm Swedish Mauser with a wooden bullet
Swedish training cartridge caliber 6.5x55 mm Swedish Mauser with a wooden bullet.
1950s.
Special 9 mm special pistol pistol cartridge
Special pistol cartridge Special Glaser caliber 9 mm American company COR-BON / Glaser Ammunition. The bullet with controlled ballistics consists of a plastic bow, a copper shell and a shotgun filler.
Designed for special units to combat terrorism.
It can be fired, for example, in the cabin of an airplane, without fear of rebounding or defeating people behind the target, since the lumbago is out of sight.
When a bullet hits, it collapses, striking a sheaf of shot not protected by the bulletproof vest.
Stewardesses like it.
British pistol cartridge caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum)
The most common British pistol cartridge caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum).
Since it is important for the bullet not only to kill the enemy, but also stop, which in the melee becomes critical, the caliber of pistols and revolvers is usually made more rifle.
So, if even a reduction in the caliber from 7.62 to 5.6 mm has occurred for general small arms, for example, for pistols and 9 mm there is no limit.
A bullet shell, a copper "shirt" protects the lead bullet from deformation.
Spherical pistol cartridge Wadcutter caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum)
The Wadcutter 9g19 mm round-sighted pistol cartridge (Luger / Parabellum).
Has a brass bullet in the form of a truncated cone with a notch, sharp edges of which, when hit on a paper target, cut through the edges of the hole in order to obtain an even and clean hole, which the wife is not ashamed to show.
Pistol cartridge holder caliber 9x17 mm (.380 Browning)
Pistol cartridge of caliber 9x17 mm (.380 Browning) with tracer sighting bullet.
When it hits the target, it gives a noticeable flash or a cloud of colored smoke.
Special high-capacity Ammunition pistol cartridge 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum)
Special pistol cartridge High Safety Ammunition caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum).
Developed by the British company Cobra in the 90s of last century.
In the soft plastic bullets, seven steel darts are filled (only three of them are visible on the cut); To protect against premature failure (before hitting the target), the bullet is covered with a copper sheath.
Refers to the type of bullets with controlled ballistics, it is used again by detachments to combat terrorism.
Darts pierce the body armor of the enemy, diverge in his body and inflict serious damage, but without the risk of breaking through and defeating people behind the perpetrator.
Special pistol cartridge Sky Marshall caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum)
Special pistol cartridge Sky Marshall caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum) for the Israeli anti-terrorist special services.
These harsh people will not use cheap nonsense to shoot at the enemy!
Destroyable non-bullet bullet made of polymer resin with steel balls.
The appointment is the same as that of the previous patron, but only if the opponent without a bulletproof vest.
Revolver cartridge Speer Target caliber 9 mm
Revolver cartridge Speer Target caliber 9 mm with plastic sleeve and plastic traumatic bullet.
Developed by the American company Speer for compact police short-barreled revolvers.
Pistol cartridge of caliber 9x22 mm of increased energy
A pistol cartridge caliber 9x22 mm high energy with a semi-shell expansive bullet.
At the bullet, the recess is closed with a plastic fairing, which is needed to prevent clogging of the cavity with fragments of the cloth of the enemy's tight clothing when it is penetrated.
If the notch is clogged, the bullet will turn into an ordinary one and lose its expansive properties.
And so the fairing, after breaking through the clothes, crumples, helping to open the bullet.
Well and further all occurs in the same way, as we described earlier.
The fairing also increases the reliability of the cartridges from the magazine, preventing them from skewing.
Developed by the Swiss company Sigarms in 1994.
Pistol cartridge of caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum)
Pistol cartridge of caliber 9x19 mm (Luger / Parabellum) with semi-shell expansive bullet.
The most popular version of the equipment of police and civilian self-defense weapons in the United States.
Has a good stopping effect.
Cartridge caliber 76 mm for combat smooth-bore weapons
Cartridge caliber 76 mm for a combat smooth-bore weapon with several striking elements.
Thus, the problem of increasing the area of the lesion is solved.
It is thought, probably, that it was possible to shoot squinting - on whom God will send.
This is true at all times.
The murderous beauty of the cartridge in the lens of photographer Sabina Perlman
The photo project of Sabina Perlman, called "Ammunition", shows an unusual angle of bullets. Even if you have already encountered firearms, you are unlikely to be lucky enough to see her that way. Each cartridge has its own unique design. Symmetry of forms in combination with different types of charge makes each bullet a real work of art.
As Sabina herself says, the section allows you to see all the complexity and beauty of the form, along with the enormous power of destruction. This manifests the whole essence of man: create the beautiful, and then destroy it.
At the moment in the collection of the photographer collected about 900 pictures of a variety of types of bullets.
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