Journal Article

Developments of 7.62 x39mm armor piercing projectiles

Fayed, A

2024

Overview

Calibers 7.62 x39mm are one of the most common calibers used all over the world. As a result of developments of modern armors that become lighter, and with-stand more impact kinetic energies. Consequently, the development of ammunition becomes important to increase the combat ability of used weapons to face modern armors. In this paper, some modifications are already done in construction and design of existing bullets, in which the inner cores or parts of them are replaced by harder material, tungsten carbide, instead of lead or hard steel core. Some internal and external ballistic predictions are calculated to make sure the expected developments do not affect the weapons barrels compared with the original bullets and the check of the stability during the flight are also studied by using PRODAS package Resultant depths of penetrations are compared experimentally with that of original types, the experimental results show a noticeable increase in depth of penetration compared with that of original bullets.

• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Subject: Armor penetration / Armor piercing projectiles / Penetration depth / Projectiles / Tungsten carbide / tungsten carbide core projectiles / Weapons