Instead, they use something more powerful like C4.
The bullets could be then a lot smaller and ligther, this would improve logistics by a lot.
Also C4 won't easily explode. Firearms would be a lot safer too.
Would it be possible to make a pistol bullet to be as strong as a rifle bullet? I don't know how stronger C4 is when compared to gunpowder.
Modern smokeless powder is far more effective than ye olde black powder. Plastic explosive is also useful. To be honest, it is the perfect charge to wrap around a quadcopter.
As long as the drone can carry the weight on a one way trip, the plastic can be shaped to keep good aerodynamics.
>never touched nor smelled C4
C4 has a much higher brisance. You don't actually really want an explosion to propel a projectile so much as you want a deflagrant. Switching to a compound with a faster detonation rate would dramatically increase the necessary strength of a firearm's pressure bearing components, and may also have deleterious effects on external ballistics.
t. smokeless powder salesman
>bolt action handle on a semi auto pistol
wat
Bolt action pistols are actually great to shoot in small bore CF calibres like the fast 22s, 218 bee etc. Ideal for silhouette
It's for racking the slide, since there's a bigass red dot in the way of that.
Is it a tiny gun or something? Looks like there's plenty of space to pinch the back of the slide.
and its dovetailed into the spot where the rear sight would go.
>all this money put in to the gun
>still has WARNING: READ MANUAL BEFORE USE and other idiot marks scribbled all over it.
LMAO
>t. Big Smokeless
I'm a big fan of high energy RDX based propellants but big army moves slow so it'll be another couple of decades of testing and making sure ammo production is scaleable before we'll see it enter US service.
>I'm a big fan of high energy RDX based propellants
Any reading material?
Just slap "high energy RDX based propellants" into google scholar, there is a shitload of well funded research and I haven't kept up to date in the last ~3 years.
Look at the rhenium plated stellite lined 25mm bushmaster barrel testing stuff
From a industrial view point, it is much easier to pour a cartridge with a precise amount of powder than to stuff it with dough.
Is there no oil or petroleum liquid that ahs the same burn rate and pressure curve as a smokeless substitute?
Propellent, especially rocket, has been put in explosives, and aluminum and other goodies for decades now. Even plasticizer or gelling agent have explosive ones.
>petroleum
kerosene or alcohol with prilled AN sounds like a good starting point.
This seems like the firearms equivalent of dudes who show up to sword threads talking about titanium.
But dude you don't get it, the sword would be like, so light but so hard. Like a titanium katana would be unstoppable dude
>dosen't know about shockwave propagation
You should use diamond barrels too, because diamond is the strongest metal.
>because diamond is the strongest metal
Pretty sure that's dragonforce.
Yes, but it's also very heavy. A pound of diamond weighs like two pounds or something.
Powders are getting incrementally better ever year. It's one of the few areas where firearms technology hasn't plateaued.
How? They just manufactured a problem and pretend to fix it.
just use that swedish plastic explosive thats not toxic so you can eat it
t. knower
i had a battle buddy in basic training eat a chunk of c4. he never got sick from it, but i read that c4 is toxic. maybe they gave us swedish plastic explosives knowing some retard would try to eat it?
we also had some chemlights that were nontoxic. the veebel explained that during the sales pitch the salesman drank the fucking thing to prove its harmless
Reminding me of that awful pic of the muhrine who chewed on a blasting cap. I think stupid people may be the true source of evil.
If you had a diamond barrel or something else far tougher than steel, you'd probably want to use a punchier propellant than traditional powders. Not sure if C4 is the answer though.
Fucking retard.
That's primitive too, first we're going to electric propulsion like Tesla guns, then direct energy blasters. After that psychic warfare becomes totally dominant.