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  2. Interceptor multi-threat body armor system - Wikipedia

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    The Interceptor vest was tested to stop a 9×19mm 124-grain FMJ bullet at 1,400 feet per second (430 m/s) with minimal backface deformation, and it has a V-50 of roughly 1,525 feet per second (465 m/s). This means that the bullet in question must travel faster than 1,525 feet per second (465 m/s) for it to have more than a 50% chance of ...

  3. What Bullets Do to Bodies - Highline

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    Goldberg wheeled the monitor over to show me the X-ray image: paper clip and bullet. “Very small,” she said, pointing to the slug, “like a .22.” As so many other patients do, the patient asked the trauma surgeons if they were going to take the bullet out, and the surgeons explained that they fix what the bullet injures, they don’t fix ...

  4. Bulletproofing - Wikipedia

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    For example, the U.S. National Institute of Justice standard 0104.04 for bullet-resistant vests specifies that a Type II vest must not deform clay representing the wearer's body when hit by an 8.0 g (124 gr) 9 mm caliber round nosed full-metal jacket bullet travelling at up to 358 m/s (1175 ft/s); but a Type IIIA vest is needed for protection ...

  5. Terminal ballistics - Wikipedia

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    Bullet parts: 1 metal jacket, 2 lead core, 3 steel penetrator. Terminal ballistics is a sub-field of ballistics concerned with the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target. Bullet design (as well as the velocity of impact) largely determines the effectiveness of penetration. [1]

  6. Rim (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Since a straight-walled rimless cartridge is designed to headspace off of the case mouth, this prevents the ammunition loader or manufacturer from using a heavy crimp, which is a ring pinched or "crimped" into the cartridge case, designed to lock the bullet securely in place until fired.

  7. Inmate grazed by ricochet bullet from FBI target practice ...

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    Inmate grazed by ricochet bullet from FBI target practice near L.A. jail. Keri Blakinger. August 23, 2024 at 8:13 PM. A Los Angeles County jail in Castaic in 2015. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

  8. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium - Wikipedia

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    Girls ' Frontline 2: Exilium (simplified Chinese: 少女前线2:追放; traditional Chinese: 少女前線2:追放; pinyin: Shàonǚ Qiánxiàn 2: Zhuīfàng) is a turn-based tactical strategy game developed by China-based studio MICA Team, where players command squads of android characters, known in-universe as T-Dolls, armed with firearms and melee blades.

  9. 6.5mm Creedmoor - Wikipedia

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    The 6.5mm Creedmoor designated as 6.5 Creedmoor by SAAMI, and as 6,5 Creedmoor by the C.I.P. [4] is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced by Hornady in 2007. [6]It was developed by Hornady senior ballistics scientist Dave Emary in partnership with Dennis DeMille, the vice-president of product development at Creedmoor Sports, hence the name.