Yugoslavian version of the 7.62x39 cartridge, named M67. It has a lead core with a forward air gap. The Soviet 7.62 × 39 mm rifle cartridge was designed during World War II for the SKS carbine. The cartridge was influenced by the late-war German 7.92 mm Kurz ("Kurz" meaning "short" in German). Shortly after the war the world's most (in)famous assault rifle was designed for this cartridge: the AK-47. The cartridge remained the standard Soviet load until the 1970s, and is still by far the most common intermediate rifle cartridge used around the world. Its replacement, the 5.45 × 39 mm cartridge, is less powerful but longer ranged (due to its much higher velocity) and is more controllable in full-auto fire (due to the lower recoil). The change was a response to the NATO switch from the 7.62 mm cartridge to 5.56 x 45 mm NATO. Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 389 KB)Bunch of Yugoslavian 7. ...
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The original Soviet bullets are boat-tail bullets with a copper-plated steel jacket, a large steel core, and some lead between the core and the jacket. The cartridge itself consists of a berdan-primed, tapered steel case which seats the bullet and contains the powder charge. The taper makes it very easy to feed and extract the round, since there is little contact with the chamber walls until the round is fully seated. This taper is what causes the AK47 to have distinctively curved magazines. While the bullet design itself has gone through a few redesigns, the cartridge itself remains largely unchanged. A boattail bullet has a bullet heel that reduces to diameter that is less than the largest diameter of the bullet. ...
An imperfect design: M43
Although the new cartridge represented a great leap forward from previous designs, the initial bullet design was flawed. The complete solidity of the M43 projectile causes its only drawback—it is stable even in tissue and begins to yaw only after traversing nearly 30cm of tissue. This greatly reduces the wounding effectiveness of the projectile against humans. Dr. Martin Fackler noted that the wounds from the M43 round were comparable to that of a small handgun round using non-expanding bullets. Unless the round struck something vital, the wound was usually small and quickly healing. Extremity hits were seen as nearly inconsequential. Yaw or Yam is the name for the Levantine god of chaos and the power of the untamed sea as found in texts from the ancient city of Ugarit. ...
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WHO WROTE THIS ? its mostly IGNORENT NONSENSE ! so is the M67 tomb below . bookwormizm by someone who obviously has never handled , used or deeply studied the items in question .
Advancements in projectile design: M67 In the 1960s the Yugoslavians experimented with new bullet designs to produce a round with a superior wounding profile to the M43. The Yugoslavian type rounds are known as M67 and incorporate an air gap inside the front of the bullet. This shifts the center of gravity rearward, causing the bullet to destablize nearly 17 cm earlier in tissue. This causes a pair of large stretch cavities at a depth likely to cause effective wound trauma. When the temporary stretch cavity intersects with the skin at the exit area, a larger exit wound will result, which takes longer to heal. Additionally, when the stretch cavity intersects a stiff organ like the liver or a full bladder, it will cause damage to that organ.
However, without fragmentation, the wounding potential of M67 is mostly limited to the small permanent wound channel the bullet itself makes. While a fragmenting round (like the 5.56 x 45mm) might cause massive tissue trauma and blood loss (and thus rapid incapacitation) on a lung or abdominal hit (both of which are very resistant to hydrostatic shock), the M67 has a greater chance of merely wounding the target. Still, it is an enormous improvement over the M43 design. U.S. Military 5. ...
Nearly all modern 7.62x39 mm rounds of civilian or military manufacture are of the M67 variety—a simple boattail FMJ round with a forward air cavity. Notable exceptions are the Ulyanovsk Machine Factory EM1 "match" (which substitutes a nipple for an air cavity and produces a single large temporary cavity in place of two small ones) and the Wolf 150 grain (9.7 g) soft point which behaves much more like a traditional expanding hunting round. Nearly all Jacketed Hollow Point rounds in 7.62 x 39 mm are M67 rounds with a small hole in the front of the jacket—terminal ballistics are nearly identical to their fully jacketed bretheren. They are a concession to various hunting laws that forbid FMJ rounds. Of all the tested JHP rounds, only Ulyanovsk EM3 hollowpoints seem to expand at all.
Chinese steel core Chinese military-issue ammunition in this caliber is M67 style with a mild steel core and a thin jacket of copper or brass. Contrary to common belief, the use of steel was a cost saving measure rather than one to increase the penetration. Additionally, mild steel is not sufficiently hard to grant unusual armor penetrating capability . Despite this, Chinese ammunition is currently banned from importation in the US due to the fact that there are 7.62x39 mm caliber "handguns" (mostly Krinkov pistols and a few single shot target pistols) and the ammunition is an "armor piercing handgun round" under the U.S. federal legal definition of the word, which is based on materials and bullet design rather than on tested ability to penetrate armor.
Other names for 7.62 x 39 mm Also known as a .30 caliber cartridge (pronounced "thirty"). On rare occasions, this ammunition is referred to as 7.62 mm Soviet, 7.62 mm Warsaw Pact rounds, or 7.62 mm ComBloc. It was also known in the United States as .30 Short Russian; the "Short" was to distinguish it from the older .30 Russian (7.62 Russian), which was the 7.62 x 54R. Seal of the Warsaw Pact Distinguish from the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement among airlines about financial liability. ...
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Since approximately 1990 the 7.62 x 39 mm cartridge has become very popular in the southeastern US for hunting game up to the size of whitetail deer, as it is approximately as powerful as the old .30-30 Winchester round. Large numbers of inexpensive imported rifles, like the SKS and semi-auto AK-47 types, are available in this caliber. Inexpensive imported 7.62 x 39 mm ammunition is also widely available, though much of it is of the non-expanding type that may be illegal to use for hunting in some states. .303 in. ...
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Rifles using the M43 round SKS The SKS is a Russian semi-automatic rifle, designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. ...
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Specifications - Round length: 55.80 mm
- Case length: 38.65 mm
- Rim diameter: 11.30 mm
- Bullet diameter: 7.90 mm
- Bullet weight: 7.97 g
- Nominal charge: 1.60 g; SSNF 50 powder
- Muzzle velocity: 710 m/s
- Muzzle energy: 2,010 J
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