| From: | Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com |
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| Subject: | APDS |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:07:38 EST |
writes:
> 3) Put a code on the bullet or the casing (the bullet would be best, so
> you can re-use the casing for another type of ammo if you want) that gets
> read when the round is loaded into the chamber. In essence, this is what's
> done today: a red bullet tip indicates tracer, a black one is for armor-
> piercing, and so on. All it'd need is a scanner in the gun that checks the
> color(s) of the bullet.
>
While this would be the way I think, we can take it a step more (btw, the
hunting rounds are also colored, but they got much better range of colors,
blue violet green, all the prettiest shades to tell you boat-tail from your
whatever)
Remington is coming out with an electric ignition system rifle (others have
used electric triggers with standard ammo or caseless styles, which have there
own problems) that actually discharges through a case (hole where primer
usually is, I think with contact points)
The reason this has a better chance to stick around and become popular (IMO
ofc) is because they stick with a standard style case and will be reloadable
(from what I understand)
The SR part, the little contact points could conatin load data, bullet data
etc. For handloads, they could even be user programmable. For Commercial
runds, it wuld include tracing info, which would have spawned a whole system
of removing such tracing info.
(I fire my APDS, Case-Sleazed rounds)
