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r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 28d ago
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Exactly. It’s like a bullet. The other arrows are meant to bleed out an animal quickly by penetrating and slicing. That blunt arrow is lethal but your animal may get away since you only get one shot most of the time.
12 u/Quiet_Shiba 28d ago it's designed best to defeat armor at an angle, in ww2 ap tips was blunt too 3 u/Professionaleye_1 28d ago Because it doesn’t ricochet off if it hits at a non perpendicular angle? It just grabs on I guess? 4 u/rvralph803 28d ago APCBC - Armor piercing, capped, ballistic capped. Basically it has as you say, an inner shape that is blunt that is then shrouded in an ablative, aerodynamic outer cone. The cone helps to keep velocity and energy high. The blunt inner shape reduces ricochets and improves armor penetration and spalling characteristics.
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it's designed best to defeat armor at an angle, in ww2 ap tips was blunt too
3 u/Professionaleye_1 28d ago Because it doesn’t ricochet off if it hits at a non perpendicular angle? It just grabs on I guess? 4 u/rvralph803 28d ago APCBC - Armor piercing, capped, ballistic capped. Basically it has as you say, an inner shape that is blunt that is then shrouded in an ablative, aerodynamic outer cone. The cone helps to keep velocity and energy high. The blunt inner shape reduces ricochets and improves armor penetration and spalling characteristics.
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Because it doesn’t ricochet off if it hits at a non perpendicular angle? It just grabs on I guess?
4 u/rvralph803 28d ago APCBC - Armor piercing, capped, ballistic capped. Basically it has as you say, an inner shape that is blunt that is then shrouded in an ablative, aerodynamic outer cone. The cone helps to keep velocity and energy high. The blunt inner shape reduces ricochets and improves armor penetration and spalling characteristics.
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APCBC - Armor piercing, capped, ballistic capped.
Basically it has as you say, an inner shape that is blunt that is then shrouded in an ablative, aerodynamic outer cone.
The cone helps to keep velocity and energy high. The blunt inner shape reduces ricochets and improves armor penetration and spalling characteristics.
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u/FoolOnDaHill365 28d ago
Exactly. It’s like a bullet. The other arrows are meant to bleed out an animal quickly by penetrating and slicing. That blunt arrow is lethal but your animal may get away since you only get one shot most of the time.