I find it funny how people are arguing about the terminal effects of this round ( Sidenote: seattleheretic is correct, check Wikipedia) when the description is "This is an unknown distance shot on a material target from 1560 meters." Anyone see a fail yet?
The Raufoss Mk211 projectile will just go through a flesh target without igniting - acting like FMJ. It needs to hit a hard surface to ignite, otherwise it will just stay in one piece. Naturally being hit by a .50 caliber projectile does damage, but people have survived it (I knew a guy who was hit by Russian AA in a helo in Vietnam - it did a number on his leg).
Even if it ignited (maybe due the use of a SAPI plate?) the word "obliterate" is a bit strong.
@seattleheretic It's a 50/50 ignition chance on the NM140/211 on soft targets. And if it does ignite, it wont blow until 30-45cm after hit. A straight on hit, not likely. But if you hit the target from the side or heavily angled, or armor is in place (as you said) there's a good chance of it exploding inside the target on its way out, doing some very nasty damage indeed, especially on everything behind the soft target.
It is capable of penetrating over 3 inches of solid steel no matter the range of the bullets impact because of the RDX explosive mixture which propells the tungston 7.62 dart inside the bullet head at over 4000 Feet Per Second on Impact. It was designed for Anti-aircraft/ Anti-material purposes. It would obliterate a human.
Shooter to target unknown, camera to target 1560m or the other way round.
jayinspain 4 months ago
An unknown distance shot at 1560 meters? That sounds rather known distance to me.
YoungGun243 6 months ago 3
I find it funny how people are arguing about the terminal effects of this round ( Sidenote: seattleheretic is correct, check Wikipedia) when the description is "This is an unknown distance shot on a material target from 1560 meters." Anyone see a fail yet?
YoungGun243 6 months ago
The Raufoss Mk211 projectile will just go through a flesh target without igniting - acting like FMJ. It needs to hit a hard surface to ignite, otherwise it will just stay in one piece. Naturally being hit by a .50 caliber projectile does damage, but people have survived it (I knew a guy who was hit by Russian AA in a helo in Vietnam - it did a number on his leg).
Even if it ignited (maybe due the use of a SAPI plate?) the word "obliterate" is a bit strong.
seattleheretic 11 months ago
@seattleheretic It's a 50/50 ignition chance on the NM140/211 on soft targets. And if it does ignite, it wont blow until 30-45cm after hit. A straight on hit, not likely. But if you hit the target from the side or heavily angled, or armor is in place (as you said) there's a good chance of it exploding inside the target on its way out, doing some very nasty damage indeed, especially on everything behind the soft target.
HaugMedia 4 months ago
It is capable of penetrating over 3 inches of solid steel no matter the range of the bullets impact because of the RDX explosive mixture which propells the tungston 7.62 dart inside the bullet head at over 4000 Feet Per Second on Impact. It was designed for Anti-aircraft/ Anti-material purposes. It would obliterate a human.
michaelbarrettm107 1 year ago
@triggerfifty How far would you have to be for it to penetrate an inch of RHA? I see at that range you're defiently engaging human-size targets.
ryeable 1 year ago
@BenedictWolfe How much can it penetrate?
ryeable 1 year ago
@BenedictWolfe How much can it penetrate?
ryeable 1 year ago
Looked like a standard blue tip incendiary round.
kg281281 2 years ago
@kg281281 Definatly a RAUFOSS round, incendiary with explosive component.
NigelGriff 1 year ago
@NigelGriff Plus a tungsten penetrator, giving it effect on lightly armored vehicles.
BenedictWolfe 1 year ago