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Ammunition: Projectiles
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Small arms ammunition will be available in its present form for the foreseeable future. Its function will continue to be to propel a projectile over a distance to strike a target. Variations in the material and design of this ammunition will be in response to the specific needs of the many groups of small arms users.
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This new line of ammunition is loaded with the first intelligent bullet, made of an alloy (no lead) with a low specific weight. This feature allows light bullets like these to have a size similar to those projectiles made from lead.
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Modern ammunition includes not only shells for tube artillery and mortars, but increasingly aircraft-delivered bombs, smart bombs, rockets and other explosive-bearing projectiles. The destructive power and lethality of these systems is difficult to appreciate. A single cluster bomb, deliverable by any of the above systems, can sow grenade-sized bomblets across a 100 yard (90 m) Football pitch-sized field in sufficient density to kill any persons present, even in trenches and wearing body armor.
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Most modern artillery ammunition resembles small-arms ammunition, but many types contain a major additional component—the fuze, which is used to detonate explosive warheads. Small and medium artillery generally use fixed rounds, in which the projectile, propellant, and primer are in one container, as in the case of small-arms cartridges.
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