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The U.S. Army Is Developing a Better Bullet

Performance is mixed, with reports that the new M855A1 round tumbles requires a greater travel distances within the human body to begin tumbling ...

NGSW Phase 2 Consolidation and info - Delphi Forums

Remember, when the US Army choose the M855A1 to replace the M855, the "advertising" was that the EPR bullet was "green" and avoided 2,000 metric ...

A Brief Essay on the Development of US Small Arms : r/WarCollege

As with Mk318, this round offers superior soft tissue lethality versus the previous generation of ammo, while having the best penetration ...

In the United States Court of Federal Claims - Smith & Hopen

The projectile design found in L3 became what is now designated as the M855A1. Enhanced Performance Round and achieves several enhancements not found in M855.

7.62mm NATO EPR (Enhanced Performance Round) “Green Ammo ...

The "green" environmentally-friendly aspect of the new round is even more impressive than the M855A1 EPR, since the Army was able to cut 114.5 grains of lead ...

Marine Corps Will Likely Adopt Army 5.56 Rifle Round, General Says

The Marine Corps continues to use M855 ammo for their M16A4 and M4 5.56mm service rifles, instead of the M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round the Army uses for ...

The Army Is Once Again Looking to Replace the 5.56mm Cartridge

The Army chose to craft an updated version of the M855. Critics slammed the somewhat controversially named M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round ( ...

M855A1 article [GRAPHIC - NSFW] [Archive] - pistol-forum.com

While M855A1 does have better accuracy, more consistent terminal performance, and better barrier capability than M855 "green tip", in a military ...

Ideal M4A1 Ammo Choice - 506th IR

I Googled the various other ammo types and found that the "5.56mm 30Rnd M855A1 (No Tracer)" and "5.56mm 30Rnd M856A1 Red Tracer" rounds are the ...

7 types of ammo you should definitely put up your butt

Share · The 5.56x45mm NATO round · The 5.56mm M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round · The 6.8mm intermediate round · The .300 AAC Blackout round · The ...

Does the military ever use green tip 5.56 rounds? - Ebony Henry

The U.S. military adopted the M855 round, also known as Green Tip 5.56, in the early 1980s. · Because of the better penetration, the Belgian- ...

Army's Newest General Purpose Round Shows Accuracy In Rifle ...

The Army's new M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round is performing well under combat conditions in Afghanistan, but how does it stack up during ...

BREAKING: USMC Getting Closer To Officially Adopting M855A1 ...

The Marine Corps continues to use M855 ammo for their M16A4 and M4 5.56mm service rifles, instead of the M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round the ...

Is M855A1 available outside of the military? - Topic - SIGforum.com

Below this velocity, which equates to range, the round is more likely to pass through its target with little effect. The M855A1 can maintain ...

M855 « Daily Bulletin

... M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round, to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Army will procure over 200 million rounds of the new M855A1 ammo in ...

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M16A2, multi-sided view. ; M16A2, multi-sided view. · Assault rifle · United States.

M855A1 Performance Review [Archive] - pistol-forum.com

This did not occur with any of the current rounds that I sampled. ... The M855A1 projectile has a lower specific gravity than conventional lead- ...

Green Tip Ammo: What It Is And Why It's Controversial

This led to, in June of 2010, the introduction of the M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round (EPR). It is comprised of a lead-free, solid copper ...

Evolution of the M855A1 Round | The High Road

The new M855A1 may very well make it through some barriers better than the M855 as the penetrtor is longer. However I don't think that it will ...

Army And Marine Corps On M855 Ammunition - The Captain's Journal

The M855A1 features a steel penetrator on top of a solid copper slug, making it is more dependable than the current M855, Army officials have ...