{"id":36802,"date":"2013-07-26T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36802"},"modified":"2013-07-26T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:00:09","slug":"big-armys-green-5-56mm-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36802","title":{"rendered":"Big Army’s Green 5.56mm Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul and Ex-PH2 send us link to articles about the Army’s attempt to develop “green ammo”, you know because we’re polluting the enemies’ environments. Or something. From MSN<\/a>; <\/p>\n

A special technical team is applying the same technology used to switch to the greener 5.56 mm M855A1 enhanced performance round, or EPR, in 2010, which eliminated nearly 2,000 tons of lead from being used, according to the latest numbers released by Picatinny.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Army projects that by using the green 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, an additional 3,683 metric tons of lead could be eliminated from ammunition production between 2013 and 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Firearms Blog<\/a> reported a few years ago that Norwegians tested the lead-free ammo and discovered that the resulting gas made their soldiers sick.<\/p>\n

The report states that the gas exhausted from the rifles contained high levels of copper and zinc which account for all the symptoms suffered by the riflemen. A few, quite comical, short term solutions have been recommended. These include only shooting outside, slower rate of fire and spacing the shooters out more when at the range!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because those are always choices that you can get when engaged in a real fire fight. Guns and Ammo<\/a> takes a critical look at the M855A1;<\/p>\n

[T]he reason it shoots flatter is because they\u2019ve juiced the round up so that it will fly at 3,100 fps. This would be a great achievement except for the fact that they did it by increasing the chamber pressure from 55,000 psi to 63,000 psi. That\u2019s a number closely approaching proof-load pressures.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

This means that not only are parts going to wear out at a much higher rate (which is already is an issue with the M4), but if, God forbid, there is any bullet set-back, the number of M4s reportedly going \u201chigh order\u201d (i.e., blowing up) should increase exponentially.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention that the new round cuts barrel life by almost 50 percent…<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

There has never been a single scientific study that has proven that lead from expended rounds has leached into surrounding soil or found its way into the water table. Not a single study. Not one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So like everything else Big Army has done in recent years, protecting the force and giving them the tools they need gives way to hippie, feel-good politics. By the way, the M855A1 costs more than double what any other 5.56mm round costs. You know that’s good because of the cuts to spending that the DoD is currently experiencing. This really helps out. We can just furlough a few more thousand employees and cut a couple of thousand more trigger pullers to pay for this ammo that under-performs current choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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