Friday, July 23, 2010

New Ammo Slashes Machine Gun Weight




23 July 2010
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New Ammo Slashes Machine Gun Weight

Army Engineers have been working for the last six years on a radical approach to ammunition and weapons that has the potential to cut the weight Soldiers carry by nearly 50 percent. Researchers are using so-called "cased telescoped" ammunition that does away with the propellant-holding brass shell and replaces it with a lightweight plastic case.
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