From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	exchange rates, and APDS...pronounced APP-ee-das ? : )
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:32:31 +0100

According to Paul J. Adam, at 17:36 on 23 Feb 99, the word on
the street was...

> What the smooth taper _does_ achieve, is to keep the cartridge's shape
> close to that of a standard round, so it feeds and chambers cleanly:
> remember a machine gun is eating ~500-600 of those rounds a minute.

Yeah, forgot about that. When I think APDS I immediately think of MBT main
guns, not small arms. Manually-loaded guns don't care about the
projectile's shape all that much...

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