05-30-2011, 09:53 PM
Here's a rough draft of a lethality description. I felt guilty about arguing about testing without moving forward. So, I banged this next one out and am putting it on the wire early so folks can through some stones:
Requirement 3: Lethality
Threshold: Bare Gelatin
[INDENT]Penetrate at least 30 cm into bare gelatin conforming to the FBI Test 1 description with the average width of the permanent cavity at least 2. cm over at least 10 cm using a bullet design conforming to the NATO interpretation of Hague and Geneva conventions.[/INDENT]
Rationale: This threshold requirement makes the bullet lethality at least equivalent to the 7.62X51 M80 round in the first 30 cm of penetration.
Discussion: To be filled in...
Objective 2: Robust wound channel
Penetrate at least 50 cm into bare gelatin with the damage channel being greater than 2.0 in maximum dimension within 10 cm of the entry.
Rationale: Specifiyng the width of the damage channel at 10 cm means that the channel will almost certainly be starting to open at about 5 cm into the gelatin block
The FBI Test 6 spelled out here - http://greent.com/40Page/general/fbitest.htm
Discussion: While tumbling of the bullet is undoubtedly the mechanism through which the wound channel will grow in dimension, describing the desired effect gives the inventive minded options to attain that effect.
Requirement 3: Lethality
Threshold: Bare Gelatin
[INDENT]Penetrate at least 30 cm into bare gelatin conforming to the FBI Test 1 description with the average width of the permanent cavity at least 2. cm over at least 10 cm using a bullet design conforming to the NATO interpretation of Hague and Geneva conventions.[/INDENT]
Rationale: This threshold requirement makes the bullet lethality at least equivalent to the 7.62X51 M80 round in the first 30 cm of penetration.
Discussion: To be filled in...
Objective 2: Robust wound channel
Penetrate at least 50 cm into bare gelatin with the damage channel being greater than 2.0 in maximum dimension within 10 cm of the entry.
Rationale: Specifiyng the width of the damage channel at 10 cm means that the channel will almost certainly be starting to open at about 5 cm into the gelatin block
The FBI Test 6 spelled out here - http://greent.com/40Page/general/fbitest.htm
Discussion: While tumbling of the bullet is undoubtedly the mechanism through which the wound channel will grow in dimension, describing the desired effect gives the inventive minded options to attain that effect.