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Are gun designs open source? (lemmy.world)
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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I couldn't tell you myself, I think it's crazy too, but NATO trialed caseless ammo during the Cold War, and if that's possible, I don't see why plastic ammo (at least cases) couldn't be.

Though you sure as hell won't see me jumping in line to try it out.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Caseless is an entirely different branch of innovation than polymer cases, but both have been shown to work.

There are multiple examples, but one that sprang to mind was the Textron NGSW submission, if you want to see what was being floated to the military recently.

https://soldiersystems.net/2020/10/13/textron-systems-next-generation-squad-weapon-update/

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