cartridges. Ball propellant can be manufactured more rapidly with greater safety and less expense than extruded propellants. Ball propellant was first used...
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subsidiary of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems manufacturing ball propellant in Crawfordville, Florida. The company is a member of the Sporting...
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Firearm propellants are a specialized type of propellant used to discharge a projectile (typically a bullet, slug, or pellets) through the barrel of a...
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Cordite (category Firearm propellants)
family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant. Like modern gunpowder...
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Caseless ammunition (redirect from Internal propellant caseless ammunition)
Rocket Ball internal-propellant caseless ammunition cartridge Proposed CL-armament for the Saab 21R, consisting of four 95 mm internal-propellant caseless...
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Smokeless powder (redirect from Double-base propellant)
Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder....
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was a British-born American chemist remembered as the inventor of ball propellant and as a donor or seller to the art antiquities collections of Yale...
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M855A1 has been criticized for its St. Mark's SMP842 (former WC842) ball propellant causing increased fouling of the gun barrel. Post-combat surveys have...
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production lines included smokeless powder, acid, sulfuric acid, rocket propellant, and Ball Powder. During the 33 years it produced ammunition for World War...
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Dvorianinov. It used match-grade extruded powder instead of the coarser ball propellant and had a 9.8 g (151.2 gr) boat-tailed FMJ jacketed projectile with...
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